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Bio
Lola Dupre is a collage artist and illustrator currently based in Spain, previously working from Scotland, Ireland, France and Switzerland. Self taught and coming from a background of working in artist studios across Europe including The Chateau studio in Glasgow Scotland.
Previous clients and collaborators include The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Suddeutsche Zeitung and Penguin Books and exhibitions across Europe, Australia, Japan, The USA and Mexico. Interested in exploring our ideas about beauty and where we draw lines, and making visuals that are accessible and provocative.
Curator's note
Lola Dupre's work begins with the transformation of existing images. Through hundreds of carefully selected fragments, she reconstructs photographs and illustrations until they become something new, often moving between representation and abstraction.
Her process is precise and highly attentive to colour. Dupré works by identifying tonal relationships between different areas of an image and finding paper fragments that can reproduce them. The result is a form of collage where the individual pieces stay visible as parts of the construction while still contributing to a larger, continuous image.
For Day Spectres & Invisible Interruptions, Dupré presents three works that bring together personal memory, imagined spaces, and the experience of moving through the world. A Prison of My Own Design emerged from thinking about how a small mistake can spiral into an impossible situation, while Farewell Kilkerran reflects on leaving Scotland and the memories tied to a place. The Intrepid considers movement, fragility, and the temporary structures we move through in life.
Dupré has described collage as an unusually accessible medium, since it allows almost any existing image to become part of a new combination. Her work takes that possibility seriously, using fragments not just to construct pictures, but to reconsider what an image can hold.
