Press Feature: Arts to Hearts Project

I’m happy to have been featured by the Arts to Hearts Project this month as one of four collage artists, “On the Radar”. The feature shines the light on collage artists pushing the boundaries of the medium, experimenting with composition, layering, and selection to create visually compelling digital and analog collage pieces.

Stefanie Chew works with images that already carry a past. Photographs, printed figures, fragments that feel like they’ve lived somewhere before. Her collages don’t try to disguise that history. Instead, they work with it, allowing older images to sit openly in new arrangements.

Left to Right: 'Sunday Lullabies', 'Inner Architecture', ‘The Truth Behind The Eyes’

What’s interesting about Stefanie’s collages is how they avoid nostalgia. Even though she often uses vintage imagery, the work doesn’t linger in the past. The fragments are shifted, cropped, or interrupted in ways that keep them active. They’re not there to be admired for what they were, but to be used for what they can become.

The Arts to Hearts Project is an online publication dedicated to promoting artists who explore innovative approaches to art-making. This particular feature sought to highlight collage artists whose work demonstrates strong technique, thoughtful composition, and an intuitive understanding of how fragments can be brought together to tell a story.

To read the article ‘Four Collage Artists On Our Radar This Month, ’ visit the website here.