Paper Tales

A compact hardcover of collages by Peter Dowker, Paper Tales gathers work developed over several years in which the faded pastels of the past form blocks of color over the broken lines and torn edges of vintage cuttings and ephemera.

Published in 2020 by Redfoxpress of Achill Island, County Mayo, in a numbered edition of 150 copies, the 44-page volume presents each collage as a single frame of an unseen storyboard, hinting at a larger narrative held between the found fragments — mid-century advertising, typography, and photographic scrap reassembled into quiet, cinematic stills.

Redfoxpress, the Achill Island press known for its handmade dada, mail-art, and visual-poetry editions issued in small numbered runs, publishes collage books as intimate, hand-made objects Paper Tales sits squarely in that lineage.