Favourite Things

The work of John Stezaker

During a trip to the Whitechapel Gallery late last year I stumbled across the work of John Stezaker. As an ardent lover of Surrealism these images immediately appealed to me in particular Part IV shown here which has become one of my ‘favourite things’.

The Saatchi Gallery describes his work; ‘In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings. Stezaker’s portraits celebrate the grotesque, rendering the romance with modernism equally compelling and perverse.