Paper Cuts

Following on from the paper characters here is another paper folding creation from artist Francisca Prieto.

She has intricately woven, oragami style sheets of music into a wall hanging for gallery Sebastiain & Barquet in New York.

Jeff Nishinaka

Some amazing paper creations from Jeff Nishinaka.

Alexei Lyapunov

Some amazing paper scupltured figures by Alexei Lyapunov.

William Morris Gallery

On Sunday I visited the Willian Morris Gallery in Walthamstow. I didn't know that it existed unitl I moved to Walthamstow, it is in the house that he grew up in and owned. Its a beautiful old house, set with Lloyd Park surrounding it. It's not a very big gallery, only about half an hours worth, maybe longer if you read everything. But well worth a visit if you are in the area and are interested in his work.

"The 18th Century Water House, Morris’s family home from 1848 to 1856, is now the William Morris Gallery. A committed socialist and medievalist, William Morris (1834 - 1896) was horrified by increasing mass-production and mechanisation in the arts and wished to reinstate the values of traditional craftsmanship and simplicity of design. His slogan was that art should be ‘by the people, for the people’.
Following these principles, he decorated and furnished his new house (the Red House, built by Philip Webb) himself, helped by Burne-Jones and Rossetti, amongst others. This led to the setting up of the firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. The firm was a ‘company of Fine Art Workmen’, designing and producing furniture, wallpaper, murals, tapestries, stained glass windows, metalwork, tiles and embroidery, examples of which are on display at the William Morris Gallery."

Tim MacPherson

Photographs from photographer Tim MacPherson. I really like these, not seen any of his work before until now, but I really like it.
Lots more of his work on his website:
http://www.timmacpherson.com/

Design House Studios

While on my daily trawl of the internet for interesting things to look at I came across this website by Sarah Wade and Lloyd Evans. It has some lovely illustrations and surface pattern designs that I really like. I love the style in which they have been drawn, and of in particular one of my favourites is the one with teapots and teacups.


http://www.designhousestudios.co.uk/

Antony Gormley

Last week I visited the White Cube to see Antony Gormley's new exhibition Test Sites.
He has created a site specific installation and a series of cast iron blockwork sculptures.
Engaging our mobility, Gormley considers how time acts on objects and how objects act on us.

"In the lower ground-floor gallery, Gormley will exhibit a new installation of Breathing Room III the third and largest in this series of works which contain and implicate the viewer as the figure in a shifting ground.

As a physical manifestation of the gallery, Breathing Room III, is made from 15 interconnecting photo-luminescent ‘space frames’, the total volume of which is equal to that of the internal gallery space.

Time and light are the principal materials of the work. Breathing Room III encourages the viewer to enter into and interact with a defined sculptural space, where intense bursts of light interrupt complete darkness, unexpectedly jolting the experience from one of quiet meditation to acute interrogation.

A new series of sculptural works will populate the ground-floor gallery, furthering the artist’s investigation of the human body and its relationship to the built world. These new, massively extended block works use an architectonic language of stacking, propping and cantilever to suggest a tension which is indicative of our urban-bound human condition."

Its been nearly two months since my last post, I've been a little distracted with moving house (twice) and also moving jobs (twice). But now that I'm settled, at least for the time being, I will be updating a bit more often.