Robert Ryan

Papercut Frame for Vogue (Japan), 2006
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Don't know why we took so long to feature Rob Ryan. He is one of the first artists whose works got us crazy about paper!

Right: Papercut, 2007

Left:
Dress for Vogue (UK),
2007


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Here is something wearable that Robert Ryan made for UK Vogue. The filigre is created out of his signature paper-cuts, which the artist, writer and film-maker has been craeting for years. Often depicting fantasy worlds of animals, hearts and flowers woven with phases and text, Rob visualises modern fairy tales that are mesmerising.

[images and text extracted from Rob Ryan.]

For more information, visit Rob Ryan's website and blog.

studio glow

Installation in the paper forest exhibition, 2007
Studio 2 and 36 of Open Studios, Somerville
paper pulp

studio glow is a sculpture collaboration between husband and wife, Robert Ostermeyer and Riki Moss . The couple work primarily with overbeaten Abaca paper pulp to create sculpture, installations and lighting that play with forces of wind, water, light and shadow. The amazing pulp material records rippling, undulating, and sometimes violently turbulent surfaces. Their eco-art is a response to the environment.

To the sculptors, light brings revelation. For their illuminated sculptures, light illuminates details of the dynamic structure and variegated skin. It enhances contrasting shadow tones that reveal the fiber plane surface and topographical characteristics of paper.


Details of illuminated sculpture, 2007
28" X 24", paper pulp, weed wacker mono-filament

[images and text from studio glow. Thank you Riki!]

Riki Moss can be contacted at 31 Townline Road, Grand Isle Vermont, 05458;
Tel: (802) 372 4182. For more information, visit Riki Moss and studio glow.

Crumpling

This is a video of crumpling recommended in the blog of paper sculptor Jade Pegler.


Watch a napkin transform!

Jade Pegler

origami crumpling, 2007
waxed paper


origami crumpling, 2007
waxed paper

Jade Pegler has the most amazing paper sculptures. We are very inspired by her crumpling works featured in her beautiful blog. Jade, born 1980 in Wollongong, graduated with a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Wollongong. Her work with paper and textiles combines a range of techniques including paper mache, bookbinding, hand and machine stitching, collage and origami.


Detail of work in progress for Nowa Nowa, 2007

Jade was the resident artist for Open For Inspection, Nowa Nowa, East Gippsland in 2007. The project involved making an installation with the help of the local community in an unoccupied and slightly derelict house over two weeks. In November 2007, the house was filled with installations and art by about 20 artists.

[images and text extracted from Jade Pegler]

For more information, visit Jade Pegler's website, blog and flickr.

molo design - soft collection

It is great to be back from holidays to receive amazing images and information from molo design about their soft collection, which I cannot wait to share.


softroom, 2007
paper

Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen, are the architecturally trained designers behind molo design's soft collection. soft is a collection of flexible honeycomb seating, walls, building blocks, that has grown to include entirely encosed rooms and housing -all expandable and collapsible. The collection started with the award-winning paper and textile softwall space partition, which originated from the desire for flexible and spontaneous space-making. Available in paper and kraft paper, soft has since developed to include a range in water and tear-resistant, non-woven textile material.


softseating, 2007
kraft paper

The collection features lightweight and readily recyclable materials that reflect age elegantly. The strength of the honeycomb geometry does not only offer economy of material resource, but even as the surface of the material softens, the product maintains its structural integrity.

[images and text provided by molo design. Thank you Anna!]

molo design is located at 1470 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5L 2G7; Tel: (604)696 2501. For more information visit molo design.

Kirsten Hassenfeld

Installation of Dans la Lune, 2007
Commissioned by Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Photography by Nash Baker
Mixed media - paper, polystyrene board, acrylic, pipecleaners, light fixture.



Details of Dans la Lune, 2007
Commissioned by Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Photography by Nash Baker
Mixed media - Paper, polystyrene board, acrylic, pipecleaners, light fixture.

Kirsten Hassenfeld was born in Albany, New York and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Arizona, Tucson in 1998. The New York based artist creates extravagantly decorated crystalline sculptures that are crafted predominantly from paper. Kirsten's painstakingly created works revamp precious objects with decidedly un-precious materials and varying scales, making fantasy tangible and calling to question the notion of preciousness. We especially love her delicate drawings which magically transfigure into enchanting 3D installations.


Mine, 2002
21” x 18”, Graphite and acrylic on mylar

[images and text extracted from Bellwether Gallery and Rice Gallery.]

For more information, visit Bellwether Gallery and Rice Gallery.

Sarah Mitchell

Book Experiments, 2007

Every once in a while I come across blogs and flickr that I just wish to feature every single image - Sarah Mitchell is certainly one of them. Born in 1983, the artist is based in Leeds, UK. She graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree from Leeds Metropolitan University. She currently draws, makes books, makes prints, folds paper, recently sews and generally turns things she touches into beautiful things.


TOP: Cut out of tree silhouettes
MIDDLE: Fan Book, Spring Book, String Book, all 2007
BOTTOM: Cut out of trees silhouettes


Drawing of little plant, 2007

[images and text from Sarah Mitchell. Thank you Sarah!]

For more information, visit Sarah Mitchell's blog little paper bird and her flickr for more gorgeous inspirations.

Patty Eckman

Egg Watcher
6"x 6"x 4", sculpted from cast paper; edition of 100

Egg Watcher by Patty Eckman, is a cast paper sculpture of a humming bird perched on it's nest standing guard over two small eggs. The nest is placed between a tree branch and a small limb with leaves.

Patty Eckman is one half of Eckman Fine Art, the inventors of the trade marked Eckman Method® of cast paper sculpting. In 1988, Patty and Allen Eckman developed and perfected their chosen medium of cast paper sculpture. The Eckmans now reside in Rapid City, South Dakota. Their home and studio is in the beautiful Black Hills, where they find inspiration everywhere. The rich influence of nature is reflected in their beautiful works.

[image and text extracted from Eckman Fine Art.]

Eckman Fine Art is located at 222 Timberline Ct., Rapid City, South Dakota 57702; Tel:(605) 343 4252. For more information, visit Eckman Fine Art.

Flexible Love

FlexibleLove™ 16
64cm x 56cm x 22.5cm(Collapsed)/720cm(Extended), recycled materials (post-consumer recycled paper and post-industrial recycled wood)

I watched the designers of Flexible Love present their product on a Taiwanese variety show and really wish to share! The Flexible Love concept is an accordian, honeycomb structure, which can be stretched to seat as many as sixteen individuals. Made entirely from recycled materials the seating uses pre-existing production processes to reduce environmental impact during manufacture. currently, Flexible Love comes in 3 sizes that seats 16, 12 and 2. Excluding the miniaturised version. See the video below for the varieties of the system.




[images and text from Flexible Love. Thank you Mark!]

For more information, visit Flexible Love.

Ng Sek San

Cloud, 2007
Reused plans

Ng Sek San's installation, Cloud, was created for the Processing the City Exhibition held in Kuala Lumpur in June 2007. Through the works of artists and urban designers, the exhibition provided a platform to cultivate dialogue on today's urbanity and a different experience of the Malaysian City.

Sek San is a landscape architect based in Malaysia. He graduated with a postgraduate diploma in landscape architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand in 1985. One of the leading landscape architects in Malaysia today, his work is rich in elements yet contemporary in spirit. The subversive nature of his practice allows Sek San to balance commercial reality with artistic play.

[images and text from Seksan Design]

Seksan Design is located at 67, Jalan Tempinis Satu, Lucky Garden, Bangsar, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Tel: (603) 2282 4611. For more information, visit Seksan Design.

Ferry Staverman

I found out about Ferry Staverman from a beautiful blog prettypretty.


Object cut from Bee board (a form of layered cardboard using laminate and recycled cardboard).


Object from Exhibition at Weekend Art Gallery Loolaan 49, 2007
Cut from Bee board

The website is in Flemish, so we ran the text through an online translator and gathered this much information. The Exhibition at the Weekend Art Gallery Loolaan 49, in Apeldoornwas was held in 2006 . Under the theme of Space Odyssey, Ferry Staverman studied the possibilities of spatial exploration. The objects created reflect a personal travel, where the artist developed the object and its surrounding space figuratively.

[images and text from Ferry Staverman.]

Ferry Staverman can be contacted at de Heze 38 7335 BD Apeldoorn; Tel: (31) 05 5541 8608. For more information, visit Ferry Staverman.

Sarah Brown

84 Hours, 2007
4.5cm x 10cm x 450cm unravelled, reclaimed paper, linen tape, linen thread

Sarah Brown is an artist and educator based in the UK. Her fascination with the traditional craft of bookbinding inspired an ongoing body of work aimed at raising awareness and profile of the craft. The artist engages with her materials like papers, threads, tapes, cloths and leathers by enforcing repetitive techniques such as embroidery, paper folding, cutting and traditional bookbinding.


Detail of 84 Hours, 2007

84 Hours reflects the working life of William Wood, a bookbinder who died in Newgate Prison in 1788, having served half of a two year sentence. He had been imprisoned for putting pressure on his master to reduce the working week by one hour; from 84 hours to 83 hours. A single book was bound from 6am until 8pm for 6 days, recreating William's working week. Sarah's work brings awareness to people across the globe still forced to endure these extreme working hours throughout their working lives.

[images and text extracted from Sarah Brown. Thank you Sarah!]

Sarah Brown's Attic Studio is located at 1129 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8ND, UK; Tel: (44) 079 0568 5560. For more information, visit Sarah Brown.

Chris Natrop

Into the Silver See-through (Landing Nowhere else), 2006
20ft x 20ft x 14ft, watercolor, iridescent medium, green tea, tape on cut paper with thread and nylon netting

I learnt about Chris Natrop from laissezfaire, an all time favourite blog of mine!

Chris' work is a response to the unseen forces that shape lives. He uses "landscape" as a language to reshape hidden factors into explicit formations. The artist who graduated from B.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993, makes fleeting elements opaque by visualising the invisible. The results are ethereal creations that are hauntingly beautiful - familiar yet like nothing you have seen before. Oh, don't we love the seduction of the sublime.


Into the Silver See-through, 2006
30ft x 19ft, tape on cut paper with stainless steel nails


Detail of Fern Space Burst, 2004
10ft x 8ft x 8ft, hand cut paper, colored ink, watercolor, irredescent medium, thread, pushpins

[images and text extracted from Chris Natrop . Thank you Chris!]

Chris Natrop's Studio is located at 2121 N. San Fernando Ave, Unit #15, Los Angeles, CA 90065. For more information, visit Chris Natrop

Emma van Leest

Detail of Goddess as a Young Woman IV, 2006
Mixed Media

Born and based in Melbourne, Emma van Leest graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) from RMIT in 2000. On completing her degree, Emma left for Indonesia to learn about Balinese and Javanese folk art. There, Emma studied the ancient art of shadow puppetry under a master puppeteer. Her Asiatic influence manifests in subject and technique in her works. Mesmerising, her intricate and visually complex works draws the viewer into her imaginative universe. Her extraordinary technical skills, enlivens a rich melting pot of imagery borrowed from a host of disparate sources – orientalism, the lives of saints, folk art, Hindu literature and the fairytale world of the Brothers Grimm. Emma is currently represented by John Buckley Fine Art, Richmond.



Village Murmurs, 2006
Mixed media

[images and text from Emma van Leest]

For more information, visit Emma van Leest.

Chris Kenny

Nonsuch (White Map Circle), 2007
24" x 24" x 3", constructed with map pieces

Chris Kenny was born in London and studied art history at the Courtauld Institute. He produces an unexpected kind of poetry with his three-dimensional constructions made from twigs, fragments of maps and strips of found text. Objects or phrases of the same type are mounted on pins and organised in a way that suggests an intention to rationalise the differences between them. Represented by England & Co, he will have recent works included in the gallery's December 2007 exhibition.

[image and text from England & Co]

For more information, visit England & Co.

Kylie Stillman

Semiformal, 2004
Carved on books


Ground Dwelling, 2006
Carved on 200 sheets of cartridge paper

I love blog days! It gives me legitimate reason to trawl through magazines and the web for beautiful works. I found Kylie Stillman in the November/December issue of Australian Vogue Living.

Kylie, born 1975, is a Melbourne-based artist, who completed her BFA Honours (Painting) at RMIT University in 1999. In 2000, she started a series of bird carvings on books. After a successful exhibition in 2005, she was granted three-month residency in the Australia Council's Milan studio, which sparked conception of larger scaled carving works. From earlier works which are small enough to hold in the hands to the large scale where the body can inhibit, Kylie has maintained intricacy and delicacy in her carvings.


Lovely Wren, 2005
Carved on book

[images and text from Kylie Stillman]

Kylie Stillman is represented by Utopia Art Sydney, located at 2 Danks Street, Waterloo, Sydney, Australia; Tel: (61) 2 9699 2900. For more information visit, Kylie Stillman.

Catherine Hammerton

Victoriana
Hand-printed paper, stitched with lace and paper birds

Catherine Hammerton is a London-based designer-maker, her work is defined by its handmade aesthetic, utilising traditional silk screen printing and hand embroidery combined with cutting edge digital technology. Inspired by a myriad of sources, Catherine's work explores her intuitive appreciation and approach to colour, texture and finish.


Fly Away
Hand-printed vintage wallpaper, cut with bird silhouettes

Good news for fans of Catherine's aesthetics, she will be launching her first "ready to wear" range of wallpaper at the Maison et Objet in January 2008. The new range will be available at a fraction of the cost of her bespoke collection! Stay tuned for updates of this collection at our mein™ design blog!

[images and text provided by Catherine Hammerton. Thank you Catherine!]

Miriam Londoño

Three Art Books, 2006
40x65cm; 40x60cm; 40x55cm, paper with cotton and linen fibers

Miriam Londoño has developed a unique technique that allows her to write out stretches of script. She has been using texts as visual objects and creates duality transforming by paper into words. Her creations are open and transparent to allow reading between the empty spaces, creating a visual play between contents, space and light.

Memories, 2005
40x60cm, paper with cotton and linen fibers

[images and text extracted from Miriam Londoño.]

Miriam Londoño can be contacted at Trompstraat 318, 2518 BS, The Hague, The Netherlands; Tel : (31) 7 0324 0636. For more information, visit Miriam Londoño.

Richard Sweeney

Icosahedron II, 2006
80cm, 200gsm cartridge paper, adhesive.

Richard Sweeney was born and raised in Huddersfield, England. He is inspired by the demonstration of art through engineered structure. He creates objects that are simple to construct yet complex in appearance, and are efficient in the way they are produced, both in terms of construction time and material use.

Richard uses paper modelling as a means to generate form. Emphasising on the creation of form through hands, he discovers properties of the paper medium in a direct way. Understanding the potential of paper in its own right, lead to the creation of these sculptural forms.

A series of sculptural works created through the cutting, scoring and folding of paper.

[images and text extracted from Richard Sweeney.]

Richard Sweeney can be contacted at Tel: (44) 078 2139 7004. For more information, visit Richard Sweeney.

Esma Pacal Turam

Spectators, 2002

Born 1963 in Istanbul, Esma Pacal Turam is a paper sculptor, whose works have been been inspired by architecture and people. She is constantly intrigued by inhabitants of large cities and enjoys watching the fast-flowing activity of urban life. She watches people while they watch the world go by. This paper marche clothes line, is an obervation of the city life which fascinaes her.Her mixture of paper with silicon has brought out the textured beauty of both materials.


Bend and Break in Silence, 2007

[images and text extracted from Esma Pacal Turam]

Esma Pacal Turam can be contacted at Turunç1 Mahallesi 2.Sokak No:11, Zekeriyaköy 34450 İstanbul, Turkey; Tel: (90) 21 2202 7470. For more information, visit Esma Pacal Turam.

Violise Lunn

Violise Lunn, born in 1969, graduated as a fashion designer in 1995 from a Design School in Denmark . She specialises in the design and making of one of a kind pieces of clothing for women. Her other passion is making unwearable items from the simplest textile of all: paper.

Finding perfect freedom in this material through sculpting figure silhouettes, angels and her favourite theme: shoes, she allows herself to play with otherwise impossible compositions. The artist divides her time between the two artforms and lets them feed each other with inspiration. Both expressions permit dreaminess and the search for perfection.

[image and text extracted from Violise Lunn. Thank you Voilise!]

Violise Lunn can be contacted at Gothersgade 54, Baghuset 1.Th, 1123 Copenhagen, Denmark, Tel: (45) 3311 2160. For more information, visit Violise Lunn.

Jennifer Collier

Book Dress
40x50cm to 70x100 cm, paper, machine embroidery.

Here is another gorgeous paper dress creation. It is the work of Jennifer Collier, who creates innovative textiles and craft pieces using natural and found materials. Through methods of weaving, waxing, trapping, embedding and stitching she creates unusual materials, which are developed into garments and accessories. Often inspired by literature, Jennifer's work is non-functional and aims to encourage people to speculate on the nature of value. Using the symbolic form of clothing, her work provokes thoughts about the fragility of the human body.

[image and text extracted from Jennifer Collier. Thank you Jennifer!]

Jennifer Collier can be contacted at Tixall Heath Farm, Tixall, Stafford ST18 0XX, UK; Tel: (44) 07 8 1146 0494. For more information, visit Jennifer Collier.

Elisabeth Lecourt

Instructions On How To Cry, 2003, © Elisabeth Lecourt 2003
30 x 42 cm, paper, pencil, crepe paper; in edition of 3
[image from Elisabeth Lecourt; photo © onepom/London 2003.]

I love this Crying Dress found in an instruction box by Elisabeth Lecourt. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art ( MA RCA, London) in 2001, Elisabeth Lecourt (French, born 1972, Oloron Saint Marie, France) is becoming a recognised contemporary artist. In 2004 she won the BIDA newcomer of the year.

Fantaisie, 2007,
© Elisabeth Lecourt 2003
3m, muslin, paper, wool, balloon and bones

This beautiful piece is Elisabeth's latest work, currently on show until 6 January 2008, at the Berendsen Gallery in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

[Thank you Elisabeth for sharing this!]

[images and text provided by Elisabeth Lecourt.]

For more information, visit Elisabeth Lecourt.

Sounds of Silence

Installation: Petra Eichler and Susanne Kessler
Light design: Herbert Cybulska, Gregor Roth
Sound design: Martin Bott

Sounds of Silence is a series of installations by Petra Eichler and Susanne Kessler, between October 2005 and December 2006. The series inaugurated with Sound 1, held at Weißfrauenstraße 12 (near Willy-Brandt-Platz) in October 2005, offering "the kind of silence people only dream of".

Watch a documentary (Quicktime 5.9 MB) of the installation here.

The installation works with the silent strength of the fragile. A forest clearing exchanges its familiar materiality and exposes its fragile and poetic side. Out of layers of white paper silhouettes, a natural landscape evolves. The visitors can move through the layers, but only slowly and carefully, otherwise the paper and the situation is torn apart. A light and sound collage immerses the space in a dawn-like atmosphere. Let the images speak for themselves.

At the invitation of Droog Design, Susanne Kessler and Petra Eichler designed an additional paper forest for the Milan International Furniture Fair in April 2006, which had five layers, each 16m x 3.26m.



sound 1 for Droog Design at the Milan International Furniture Fair 2006

The Hangaram Design Museum of the Seoul Arts Centers bought this forest for its collection and presented it at Designmade 2006.

[images and text extracted from Sounds of Silence]

UPDATE: The designers have recently completed a window display project for the Van Cleef & Arpels' flag ship store in Paris. Find the details at our mein™ design blog!


For more information, visit Sounds of Silence.

Lyn Randall

Lyn Randall designed this paper hanging for cho cho san, in vinyl or paper. Her wall hangings evoke stories that can be touched, smelled and traced under the gaze. She uses techniques that will always produce individual results, stitching sections of strategically-torn wall paper into a design which is then embossed over a repeat style pattern. Each section is then further layered with stitching, creating surfaces that are individual, but when put together form a coherent whole.

Lyn is constantly inspired by beauty in the unexpected, the delicacy of flaking paint on old doors, the intrigue of layered wallpapers in forgotten rooms, a rainbow of subtle colours in rusty iron work - the detail of the frequently overlooked. Her adoration of delicacy and detail, gives her works a natural purity that is produced from informed and thoughtful design.

[images and text extracted from Lyn Randall and cho cho san]

Lyn Randall can be contacted at Tel: (44)07 9 5719 2181. For more information, visit Lyn Randall and cho cho san.