Vanessa Esau is an artist based in Geelong, Australia, working with a focus on hand-cut collage. 

In her collages, Vanessa explores placing familiar objects into unfamiliar situations, settings and combinations.

She uses vintage magazines, second-hand books, old postcards and other found materials to create her collages, with 1950s and 1960s advertising, word play, bright colours and the natural world frequent themes in her work.

"Plants taking over teacups and other bits of crockery often pop up in my collages.”

“For Green Tea, my starting point was the picture of the blue coffee set cut from an ad in a vintage magazine.”

“It reminds me of a set my mum had when I was growing up which I really liked. In this collage I imagined using it to set a table for nature outside on a sunny day."

Vanessa Esau, 2024.

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