Stutchbury and Pape

Cardboard House, 2005

Col James, of Australian architecture firm Stutchbury and Pape, in association with the Ian Buchan Fell Housing Research Unit at University of Sydney, has developed a cardboard house which is weatherproof, collapsible and very cheap. Light and recyclable, the project is a possible option for temporary housing.

Part of the Houses of the Future exhibition held in Sydney in 2005, the building can be assembled by two people over a six-hour period using appropriate scaffolding, and is transportable in a light commercial vehicle.



via Vestal Design.

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.

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.

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.