27/11/2012
Today during the trip to the Manchester Convention Complex I took a side trip to look over new artwork being exhibited at the Manchester Gallery
The First Cut exhibition showed a wide range of work by proffesional artists and illustrators all centered around the common theme of what amazing things can be done with paper including stenciling up to cut-out cities moulded from books. Some of the best effects depend on light, shadow and bending paper into familiar shapes.
Su Blackwell produces installations comprising makeshift butterflies and paper-cut-out trees while Andy Shingleton creates large silhouette masses of paper based on cosmic nubulae seen clinging to the ceiling and projecting swirling gaseous shadows.
Others including Rob Ryan a illustrator imagines darkly surreal landscapes through cut-out stencils Kara Walker
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