Paper Works at Flow
Left, The Hidden Spring by Lizzie Thomas, right, work by Magie Hollingworth
Flow Gallery shows just how versatile a material paper is with its new exhibition Paper Works on until 19 September
It showcases work by 12 artists who all use paper in different ways to create very different outcomes. Some, including Berdien Nieuwenhuizen and Tamsin Cunningham, manipulate the material to create textured two-dimensional wall hangings.
Others use paper sculpturally to produce pieces that look carved and give the impression of being made from a completely different, much more substantial material. Magie Hollingworth, for instance, turns paper into pulp and then moulds it as though it really were clay to make her series of colourful kitchen utensils and garden tools.
The final group highlights the delicacy of the material, intricately cutting and folding to make fragile-looking paper sculptures – this fragility is underlined by Tracey Bush whose series of moths pinned to a board draws parallels between the delicacy of a moth’s wing and the delicacy of the paper she uses. Lizzie Thomas’s cut outs are equally delicate and burst out of their wooden covers like flowers pushing out of the earth.
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