Book cover. Fiona Rogers (2026) Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage. V&A Museum and Thames Hudson.

Female artists have long employed collage techniques to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting, and contradictory parts. Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage is a new V&A publication which explores the relationship between photography and feminist collage, foregrounding the use of femmage—a radical reclaiming of craft traditionally associated with women—as a resilient method within feminist and political art.

This symposium will explore key themes of the book: women’s collage practices prior to Modernism’s claim to the form; the materiality of photography in the lives and work of women artists; the use of found or discarded images as gestures of resistance and resilience; and the significance of domestic space in shaping women’s cultural production.

Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage will be released on 30 April 2026.

To find out more and book a space at the symposium please go to the direct link.