The Sunday Paper #506
April 28, 2024
Finalists for the 2024 Paper on Pores and skin™ wearable paper artwork awards have been introduced. Thirty-five works of outstanding high quality shall be offered on the gala parade and award night in Devonport, Tasmania, (AUS) on 21 September 2024. “Paper on Pores and skin™ evolves yearly,” says Coordinator, Lyndal Thorne. “2024 isn’t any exception. We’ve got had a 60% improve in entries. The artistic and modern use of paper continues to amaze and impress us. The chosen finalists have demonstrated a mastery of approach and a visionary method to the problem of making a wearable garment constructed from 80% paper.”
Thirty-five works have been chosen involving a complete of forty artists, representing 11 international locations, who’re within the working for ten prizes price a complete of AUD $14 000 {dollars}. Paper on Pores and skin™ main accomplice – Devonport Metropolis Council; the occasion can be supported by North West Assist Providers and the Tasmanian Authorities. Click on by means of to see the finalists. I’m so excited to be attending this occasion!
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Amsterdam-based duo Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker created this distinctive wearable catalog (1,400 pages!). The arm piece accommodates black-and-white hand illustrations from 303 of Rembrandt’s etchings and drawings. The Cooper Hewitt Museum owns the unique piece.
As seen on Colossal. All photos © Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker, shared with permission.
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Mitsumata is the normal fiber used to make for Japanese financial institution notes, and money continues to be widespread in Japan. Each 20 years, the world’s third-most-traded forex goes in for a redesign, and 2024 is a kind of years. It is a fascinating story about how farmers in Nepal at the moment are supplying the fiber wanted to print the yen – sufficient to fill about seven cargo containers – first winding its means downhill to the Indian port of Kolkata, to sail 40 days to Osaka.
The bark goes by means of an arduous strategy of stripping, beating, stretching and drying.
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There are a pair areas remaining within the North Nation Shifu Workshop, hosted by Washi Arts in Blaine, Washington (between Bellingham WA and Vancouver BC) Might 30 – June 2. Study to make paper yarn and paper material with visiting artist Velma Bolyard.
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Paper Tidbits
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About our Sponsor: Paper on Pores and skin™ is a biennial occasion that started in Burnie in 2012, drawing on the area’s industrial papermaking historical past. This space – the gorgeous North-West Coast of Tasmania – has now reworked from its industrial previous. It has develop into a area celebrating tradition, meals, modern applied sciences and tourism. Paper on Pores and skin™ is emblematic of this modification. 2024 will mark the seventh iteration of Paper on Pores and skin™.
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