‘Les Dames de Pollock’s’, a series of cards

designed for Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop (unrealised) - 2019

Tinsel work and the making of scrapbooks were popular pastimes in the Victorian household where cuttings from newspapers and prints were creatively manipulated to form new and original collage pieces. Here, a gallery of three beauties taken from French illustrator Barbier and clothed with all sorts of flora epitomises Pollock’s fascination with the quirky and the historical.