Holding on - Behind the Scenes with collage artist Mark Murphy / Multistory

Mark Murphy is an artist who works with collage. During the past eight years, alongside his design practice, Mark has enjoyed setting himself the challenge of making collage in a purely analogue way. Seeking out weird and wonderful print from the last 60 years his hand-cut, paper collages play with graphic composition, juxtaposition, space, scale and surrealism. Sometimes abstract, sometimes figurative, often humorous.
For Stories in Isolation Mark has created a three-minute film about his approach to collage, whilst working on a new piece called ‘Holding On.’ The title seems to capture the mood for many during Covid-19 and as Mark reminds us, ‘there are plenty of people everywhere currently missing the embrace of friends and loved ones.’

[@kymberlydawn1445]

"Limitations Create Freedom"...I think that might be my new muse...

[@juliodias9709]

Wow! It's so beautiful and amazing. Greetings from Brazil. 🇧🇷😍👏

[@emilygrace2057]

Love this! I've recently been getting into collaging and this has inspired me!

[@diannegarner2459]

Your work is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

[@hellowally6]

Really cool! Nice to watch how you work!

[@agatarek_official]

great job my collage friend

[@parisasun2541]

Hi great work . How do you glue? Do,you create a composition and then trace the best you can before gluing to know where the pieces were ?
This is my challenge. Technically.. thank you .

[@markmurph3099]

Hi! I photograph the composition then refer to that at the sticking stage. Depending on the piece I sometime use tiny pencil marks for positioning.

[@amy60251]

Incredible. I'm inspired.

[@ChristineJonah88]

I love how your meticulous cutting out.

[@steveelkins52]

awful backing track

[@markmurph3099]

😂

[@trialsbikeguy]

Music is annoying as hell !!!

[@judithspicker1262]

Absolutely, I agree with you. Too much noise in this world. If somebody has something to say, that is enough! And this artist has a lot to say. Very inspiring!

[@wagstaffe7]

stop the music.

[@markmurph3099]

😂