Sarah Eyre

Collage (in still and animated GIF form) is a central artistic method in Sarah Eyre’s work, used to distort and disrupt familiar imagery. By cutting, layering, and reassembling photographs—whether of wigs or fashion advertisements—Eyre introduces an element of visual disorientation forcing the viewer to reconsider what they see. Collage inherently challenges notions of completeness. By taking pre-existing images (her own photographs, or from sources like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar) and reassembling them in absurd configurations, Eyre subverts the polished, idealized portrayals of femininity in consumer culture, and interrogates how femininity is constructed, performed, and deconstructed.

There is a recurring theme of boundary confusion between objects and bodies, between digital and analogue, and between authenticity and artificiality in Eyre’s work. Her collage-based process challenges the edges of the photographic image, disrupting the surface and introducing slippages between different textures and forms suggesting transformation and uncertainty. In her photocollages of wigs, she blurs the distinction between real and artificial hair, garment and prosthetic, object and identity. The wigs in Eyre’s photographs are neither fully integrated with the wearer nor completely detached; they are objects that hover between categories, complicating their role as representations of identity.

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