Letter Collages and Correspondence

Inspired by an exhibition many years ago at the Louvre, as well as by the work of Jean Tinguely and Andy Warhol who liked to give work away as gifts, and who also wrote a lot of letters, Daudy has been writing illustrated letters to friends and family since she can remember.

Daudy is good friends with members of the Bischofberger family who have been supporting her work now since she first started. The jeweller Cora Sheibani and her mother Yoyo used to come for picnics at her studio, bringing tablecloth, delicious food, sometimes even candlesticks, and tell the artist to carry on and believe in herself. The artist took inspiration from the encouragement and ideas told to her. Yoyo Bischofberger remembers Tinguely setting himself Oulipo-like literary confines to his letter collages, so that they would always remain within a certain size to fit in the post and so on. Daudy follows in this path of being able to fold up her letter collages and put them in the post. Often now she finds her letters framed at friends houses, one of whose houses she goes to so often that they plan to paper a room with her thank you letters.

This is in the tradition of Tinguely and his letters https://www.tinguely.ch/en/tinguely-collection-conservation/tinguely-studies/tinguely-and-the-decorative-reconsidering-the-artists-letter-collages.html

Delacroix wrote long chatty letters strewn with watercolour drawings and this too inspires Daudy https://www.musee-delacroix.fr/en/collection/the-writings-of-delacroix/

Also in this tradition are the artist postcards Daudy has always made. Some by hand individually cut and sewn, others printed eg for the Saatchi, or for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park or Loro Piana, others printed on eg special seed paper so they can be planted eg for the artists work for Glastonbury 2024 and 2025.