Lamp shade sample

I have been making a sample for a light shade for our bedroom. Stitches, piercings and cuts in differnt patterns on card. I show Dougie, holding it up to th light and ask for some feedback. "It needs to be a bit bigger" he says!

IT'S A SAMPLE! I say, it's not meant to be full size!

Talia lamp / light finished

Just before packing, I took some pictures. All lit up with the 'spinning wheel' view.

Sleeping beauty Paper silhouette

This is the 'inner' shade for my Talia lamp. The pattern repeats at each edge, so the pattern will flow continuously when curved to form a circle.

Finished paper cut

'The ice book'

Davy and Kristin McGuire are the creators of 'The ice book' a truly magical combination of effects and storytelling.

"The performance blends animation, puppetry, and film to bring a pop-up book vividly to life in front of the audience's eyes."

You can see bits of the performance on the vimeo clip but to find out more about the project go to their website www.theicebook.com



The Icebook from Davy and Kristin McGuire on Vimeo.

Lotte Reiniger films & Animagica

Animagica play acoustics to Lotte Reiniger films for the Sydney Festival in the Spiegeltent!
Sounds very cool! On the 24&25th Jan.

Merry Christmas and all that jazz

A sample of my Christmas cards this year. Comments have been that they reflect my glass work of the moment..some bright spark suggested glass pop ups!

Happy Birthday,

Diana, Dilys and Deb.

Paper Cutting: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft

This book 'Paper Cutting: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft' by Laura Heyenga  is doing the rounds of all the paper cutting blogs at the moment... looks good. (and not too pricey either)

Revelling in reading

credits to Sweets workshop blog

This short holiday (from uni) is of course dreary and wet, a rather grey contrast to the brilliantly sunny weeks that preceded it. However today was a "real' day off, no work of any sort. I checked out 'Sweets workshop' a two room gallery / shop just across the road from Summerhill train station. The window display had caught my eye the week before on the way to uni. Since paper cutting is in my sphere at the moment I braved the rain to go visit Nina May's 'Paper and the Blade' exhibition. The main wall in the gallery space showed a cluster of framed works with a range of themes. Some had fairytale origins, others portrayed a whimsical quirkiness that at times was humorous and lighthearted or otherwise a little melancholy. If  I could I would have 'Hills hoist girl'.

The remainder of my afternoon was spent searching for a second book in the opp shop so I could sit in a comfy chair in the cafe on the corner opposite the station drinking hot coffee, reading and eating pear and almond tart.

Once the rain had ceased sufficiently to walk home, I left one cozy spot to visit Ashfield library, which I haven't visited since the latest refurb. I got out more books, picked up some extra supplies for dinner and went home to read some more.

Happy Birthday Harry!

My best friends little boy turned one today....there was a lovely party and I made a cut paper mobile for his room featuring the animals they have at home; Snowy the pony, Jasper the Border Collie and chickens (i don't know their names). It ended up so cute I almost didn't want to give it away.

Artist of the day: Su Blackwell

Su Blackwell is an artist and art director, working predominantly within the realm of paper. Her sculptures realise in tangible form the reading experience where small words create large worlds, the page literally jumps out of the book into fantastic ethereal woods, figures and landscapes.

Below are excerpts from her profile.
”I often work within the realm of fairy-tales and folk-lore. I began making a series of book-sculpture, cutting-out images from old books to create three-dimensional diorama’s, and displaying them inside wooden boxes”.
”For the cut-out illustrations, I tend to lean towards young-girl characters, placing them in haunting, fragile settings, expressing the vulnerability of childhood, while also conveying a sense of childhood anxiety and wonder. There is a quiet melancholy in the work, depicted in the material used, and choice of subtle colour.”

After looking at her blog, I realise that I have missed out on a paper workshop course run by the V&A: Fairy tales and fables, Paper art, Sold out! Not that I could go any way..living on the other side of the world..but I would have loved to have done it.

Wildflowers

I would love a dress with butterflies!

Slash: paper under the knife

MAD's 2010 exhibition "Slash: paper under the knife" is a great resource of artists working in paper. In conjunction with this exhibition MAD ran "Moving paper" international paper film festival. 'Going west' (shown a few posts ago) was one of the winners of the competition.

Andreas Kocks

Paper animation

 NZ Book council: Going west


Lotte Reiniger's Cinderella


Les trois inventeurs

Artist of the Day: Helen Musselwhite

I think I have mentioned Helen's work before, but here is a new pic, I love the Bell jar..it adds so much. "Beauties Cottage"

Artist of the day

Hidden Autumn by Lizzie Thomas.

Lizzie Thomas at www.lizziethomas.com.uk

UK based paper artist...love it.

Artist of the day

Liz Hammon makes "jewellery and small sculptures using mostly recycled books,maps and other paper. She sometimes like to produce wire crochet pieces."

You can see her work on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizbits/
at Crafthaus


Find more photos like this on crafthaus


and at the moving clay website

Artist of the day

Selection of recent work by Anne Gant made by burning paper with hot glass.
http://gantglass.com/