CUT & COMPOSED 2026 – Inspired by René Magritte

Collage Group Show

July 4 – 24 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday 4th July 2-4pm

Whole Gallery

Cut & Composed returns in 2026 for its third iteration, inviting Australian and international artists to submit original collage-based artworks for a curated group exhibition: 4th – 24th July. This exhibition is a major group show, all centered on collage as an artistic form and aims to showcase the breadth of the medium and celebrate its uniqueness.

Inspired by the imaginative world of René Magritte, Cut and Composed is the third iteration of West End Art Space’s annual collage exhibition. This year’s exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists whose practices explore surreal logic, symbolic tension, and the subtle destabilisation of the familiar through the language of collage.

Cutting, layering, assembling, and re-framing sit at the heart of the exhibition, where fragments of imagery, memory, and meaning are transformed into new visual and conceptual narratives. Moving between the recognisable and the unexpected, the works invite viewers to reconsider everyday objects, spaces, and symbols, revealing alternative realities that exist just beneath the surface.

Through playful juxtapositions, poetic associations, and moments of quiet disruption, Cut and Composed celebrates collage as a medium uniquely suited to questioning perception and reimagining the world around us.

Featuring: Aldona Kmieć, Andrea Hughes, Anna Prifti, Anne Mestitz, Augustine Ang, Cally Lotz, Cezary Stulgis, Danilo Brandao, Eska Way, Fleur Optekamp, Flora Georgiou, Glenda Dixon, Isabella Ferrieri, Ives Wong, Jackie Ralph, Jenny Reddin, Josh Dykgraaf, Jude Worters, Kim Price, Kristian V. Eldridge, Kubi Vasak, Lauren Stoeckel, Lynka Gowi, Marite Norris, Martine Zajacek, Melynda Von Wayward, Ollewats, Rae Duhig, Silvia A Famularo, Simon Moore, Stephen Tierney, Studio Onyx, Triana Whit and Yianni Giovanoglou.