TAKING THE SCISSORS TO SOCIETY by Roger Hudson

Fascinated with art from his school days, Roger Hudson later became committed to photomontage and to investigating and extending its techniques and styles and subject matters. Mainly in the congenial atmosphere of serious art classes, he created a whole range of works of varying sizes expressing, directly and obliquely, his attitudes to our society, war, the environment, consumerism, our relationship to animals, poverty, power, success, and other topics. Hudson used variations of scissor cutting and hand tearing, exploring especially the use of templates and the complexity of image, metaphor and meaning this made possible.

This book collects together 44 of his most effective photomontages – all created from photographs torn from colour magazines – together with two examples of his early oil paintings and his own recollections of his thought processes at the time and a few associated poems. The works are arranged in a sequence that follows the process of his explorations of techniques and topics. Presented in magazine style, it represents a visual autobiography covering the major part of Hudson’s life.

Published by Greenhills Press
Edition of 200
64 pages
300 x 230 mm
ISBN 9780993122910