In early 2023, I sent a collage to Kyiv to take part in “Stick Together with Kyiv”, an international street collage project in support of Ukraine during times of war. It was organised by the Kyiv Collage Collective in collaboration with Project Paper Nation. Artists from around the world submitted pennant-flag-shaped work by post and over 2000 collages were pasted up in public spaces around the city. An online map showed where the pieces went.
My Bubble Girl pennant flag was pasted on the wall of a cafe in Kyiv at the centre of a beautiful cluster of collage, defiance and solidarity. I wished her well as I dropped the envelope into the postbox.
Kyiv Collage Collective was founded in 2021 by artist Annete Sagal to build a community for collage artists in Ukraine and connect them with artists abroad. See @kyivcollage on Instagram.
Stick together with Kyiv poster