An exhibition of collage artworks by Phill Jupitus.

Perhaps best known to audiences as the long-standing team captain on BBC Two's Never Mind the Buzzcocks and as a regular panellist on QI, Phill moved from Essex to Scotland in 2018 to pursue fine art studies at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee. Since then, he has also done performance work and delivered workshops at various art galleries, including The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and Tate Modern. Now based in Fife, he has developed a distinctive collage practice that draws on his background in performance, poetry, and visual culture.

Phill’s collages employ vintage imagery from mid-20th century magazines and print media. Working with cut-out figures arranged into narrative compositions, he creates layered scenarios that balance visual playfulness with deliberate construction. The work shows the quick wit and razor-sharp observation which is so essential to a stand-up comedian – resulting in clever and sometimes jarring image placements. These elements emerge not as punchlines but as part of the medium's capacity for surprising connections and emergent stories.

The particular series of works on show here were produced during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Phill chose to combat the enforced isolation of the lockdowns by sending 100 bespoke collaged postcards, or ‘colaroids’, to friends around the world. As well as six that never reached their expected destination, ten more have returned to the Minories specially for this show.

Collage is a powerful and relevant medium when related to contemporary life. In an interview with the Sunday Post in 2021, Phill coined people today as "the collage generation" for the way we process visual information in fragmented, patchwork ways through constant digital scrolling - positioning this artform as an important tool in making sense of our busy lives.