About this artwork

This collage is composed of fragments of screenprints, as well as tickets and scraps of magazines and drawings. Paolozzi’s use of collage reflects the way we flick through magazines, switch television channels or, increasingly, how we use social media. As a boy, growing up in Leith in the 1930s, Paolozzi collected magazines and sweet wrappers, a habit he continued into adulthood. The appropriation of everyday materials runs through almost everything he did as an artist.

Updated January 2024

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Eduardo Paolozzi

Eduardo Paolozzi