Collage, Culture and Cut-Ups: Getting to Know Jagger66
Who is Jagger66?
Jagger66 is a self-taught collage artist who came to art outside the traditional route. He started out selling work through community-run spaces, and still creates from a small, high-energy studio filled with paper, sound and references from the 1970s and 1980s.
In the mid-20th century, artists linked to Nouveau Réalisme and later Street Art scenes started working directly with the “collage” already happening in city streets – layers of fly-posters, adverts and stickers building up on walls over time. Some artists tore posters away (a process known as décollage), revealing unexpected compositions underneath.
This street-based approach is a useful way to think about where Jagger66 is coming from.
Jagger66 - Fashion Authority
His practice grows out of street ephemera – discarded magazines and weathered scraps salvaged from the alleys of Soho, London. What most of us would walk past becomes his raw material. He’s not painting everything from imagination; he’s editing the visual noise of the city.
Collage in the street: from torn posters to pop icons
The word collage comes from the French coller, meaning “to glue”. It became a recognized art technique in the early 20th century, when artists like Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso started sticking printed papers – things like newspaper, faux-wood wallpaper and labels – directly onto their drawings and paintings.
George Braque - Still Life with Tenora (1913)
This was radical at the time. Instead of painting everything from scratch, they literally pasted bits of the everyday world into their work. Suddenly, a still life might include a real scrap of newsprint, or a fake wood grain taken from a hardware shop. That mix of “real life” and “art” is at the heart of collage and has stayed important ever since.
Soon after, Dada and Surrealist artists took collage into stranger territory – cutting and recombining photographs into dreamlike or unsettling scenes. Later, Pop artists such as Richard Hamilton brought in advertising, celebrity images and domestic interiors, creating witty collages that looked a lot like the visual culture we still recognize today.
Across all these movements, the basic idea stayed the same: take things that already exist in the world and reframe them so we see them differently.
Oasis Couture - Jagger66
Jagger66's work is instantly recognizable: bold central portraits—often women or music icons styled like fashion campaigns—sit at the heart of each composition, surrounded by fragments of luxury branding and logos from Dior, Chanel, Balenciaga, Champagne houses and more. Layered into this are clear nods to music and pop culture, from Oasis references to street-style attitude and cinematic framing. Visually, the effect lands somewhere between pop art, fashion editorial and a graffitied city billboard.
How his work connects to art history
If you put Jagger66 on a timeline of collage, he sits comfortably in the line that runs from early Cubist experiments through to Pop Art and contemporary Street collage. Like Picasso and Braque, he uses real-world printed material not just for decoration but to shift how we read the image.
Richard Hamleton - Interior II (1964)
Like Hamleton, Jagger66 pulls images directly from advertising, branding and celebrity culture, highlighting the ways these images shape our desires and expectations. And, echoing later street-influenced artists and décollage pioneers, he embraces torn posters, rough textures and the layered, weathered surfaces of city walls, grounding his work firmly in the visual language of the urban environment.
The difference is that Jagger66 is working now. In a world saturated with social media, influencer culture and 24/7 branding, his collages feel like a snapshot of this moment. Fashion, fame, and luxury are all mixed together, but slightly frayed at the edges.
What his collages are “about” (without overcomplicating it)
You don’t need an art degree to understand what’s going on in these works. A useful way to think about them is this: They celebrate the look of glamour – the sharp styling, strong poses and glossy aesthetics.
They also question it – by ripping, overlapping and partially obscuring the images, they remind us that this “perfect” world is constructed, edited and constantly sold back to us. There’s no correct reading – the point is to notice how all these bits of culture collide.
Jagger66 keeps collage fresh by remixing the images that shape modern culture, turning everyday visual noise into something sharp, layered and worth paying attention to.
Urban Bloom - Jagger66