The work of

British artist Lola Dupré (b. 1980) is based in Scotland, working primarily with collage as her medium. Over the years, she has also lived and worked in Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland, each place leaving an imprint on her artistic outlook. Without a formal art school education, Dupré developed her practice through independent exploration and studio experience across Europe, cultivating a distinct voice outside conventional frameworks.

Her work has attracted international attention, leading to commissions from The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Vogue, Wired, Penguin Books, and Nike, among many others. Today, she operates between the worlds of fine art and visual culture, balancing commercial projects with a dedicated studio practice.

Dupré’s practice is defined by meticulous precision and a fascination with distortion. She works entirely by hand with scissors and glue, cutting and layering images into intricate compositions that shift between playful exaggeration and a more unsettling, distorted intensity. Portraits are stretched, fractured, and reassembled, often exaggerating the grotesque qualities of a face while revealing unexpected beauty in its collapse. In her abstract works, repetition and rhythm transform minute details into vast, pulsating surfaces, pulling the viewer into hypnotic patterns.

At a time when “cut and paste” usually refers to digital manipulation, Dupré restores a sense of tactility and permanence to image-making. Each collage is the result of patience, repetition, and physical engagement with material, often requiring multiple copies of the same image and weeks of sustained attention. This slow, deliberate method gives her work a distinctive intensity: familiar subjects become strange, identities fragment, and new forms emerge that both seduce and unsettle. Beyond their visual impact, her collages invite reflection on perception itself, questioning how easily what we take for stable can dissolve into something unfamiliar yet compelling.