Paper Collage & Montage

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Louis TF has worked as an artist and designer for the past 20 years, producing work that has varied from digital editorial illustrations for magazines and collage record sleeve artwork, to hand drawn graphics for the fashion industries. Since joining Red Herring Studios in 2018, he has developed his practice and focused on producing collage/montage works for galleries and exhibitions, patiently honing a particular style of surreal, utilising colours, textures and images born out of a large, dusty collections of books and ephemera from c.1870-1970.

Using mediums of collage and montage to expose parallel worlds that exist side by side, Louis highlights the absurd tensions between past and present, analogue and digital culture. Challenging contemporary society’s obsession with perfection, he draws on 20th-century ephemera—photographs, graphics, and advertisements—and collides their tactile imperfections with today’s curated, self-promotional trends.

Acting as an image editor, Louis reworks existing visual narratives to reveal chance encounters and fleeting moments that spark revelation or disruption. His layered compositions create sharp narrative clashes, propelling fragments of the past into the present as deliberate art anachronisms.

He preserves original margins, borders, and credits wherever possible, anchoring each piece to its analogue roots while honouring the integrity of the source material. Through collage and montage, Louis satirizes the paradox of striving to celebrate our authentic analogue selves within an unrelentingly digital world.

Get in touch at louis@louistf.com or visit louistf.com for more examples of Louis’ work and to purchase artworks.