Naomi Muirhead

1971, USA

Naomi is an artist based in Florence, Italy. She incorporates vintage and found materials or objects combined with new elements in each of her various media: jewelry, design, painting, and collage on paper, wooden doors and furniture.

Collages

I began making collages during my sojourn in Italy because I wanted an art form that was portable, immediate, and inexpensive. At first, they were mementos of being in a foreign environment and were directly related to site and place, usually in a historic context. They have evolved into work that is less about place and more about suggesting narratives with a contemporary reference. Using scraps of found paper memorabilia and magazines, which are normally discarded after being read, I recompose these remnants putting them in a new, fragmented context, changing the relationship of how they were previously perceived.

In making these collages I am conscious of the similarities with the process of designing interior spaces, and I enjoy multi-disciplinary modes of approach, concept, and media. In a parallel way that interior design is somewhat restricted, based on parameters given by the client, the architecture, the structure, or the given space, these coll...