Other paper artists' work

I had a look online for some inspiration for the exhibition; there are so many people working with paper at the moment, so I tried to narrow the field by looking at people producing work related to my own in some way, or that shows an inventive arrangement or presentation.

I have come across Peter Callesen's work before; his work could be termed 'zero waste' as he tends to use every bit of the paper in his finished pieces, as part of the main image or to keep a viewer's eye moving over the piece. I think that the most obvious example of this can be seen in 'the roots of heaven', below. The coloured paper helps to demonstrate the intricacy and delicacy of the papercut, and the mirroring of the roots and leaves makes it clear that every part of the paper has been utilised.

One of his larger works involved decorating the outside of a mobile library, where he collected book title suggestions from local children and added them to the book spines on the bus. The pattern resembles my colour stripes, and stands out when used on that kind of scale. The fact that the spines are not uniformly arranged adds movement and again makes you look around the work.

A Korean artist, Lee Kyu Hak recreates famous works of art using sticks or foam wrapped in newspaper. They instantly reminded me of my coloured matchsticks, and although his tones are muted there is enough contrast to make his work dynamic. I have been considering using the matchsticks to form silhouettes of Manchester School of Art's buildings, and if I lay contrasting sticks next to each other to form edges and shapes, the results should be exciting, as demonstrated with this recreation of Van Gogh's 'Starry Nights', below. It would also be good to link the arrangement of my origami to Manchester School of Art in some way. 

Simon Schubert is a German paper engineer whose work could also be classed as 'zero waste'. He creates subtle images by folding and unfolding paper. The shadows create the lines in this 'drawing' and could be mistaken for pencil lines. As well as using bold contrasts in the presentation of my work, I need to use subtle colour changes to draw the eye in; Schubert's paper drawings force you to peer at them to appreciate them fully, which is exactly what you want if your work is to stand out. To make it easier to see on here I have included one of his more contrasting drawings.

Matthew Shlian makes 3D paper folded pieces. Again, it is the contrast between shadow and lit paper that gives each work its form. By using different sized 'pieces' this repetitive pattern is made more interesting, and the although the resulting scatter effect is not a new one, it is visually fascinating.

Finally, the French artist Mademoiselle Maurice links humans with the environment using her paper pieces. Although she usually uses more colour than this, the arrangement below spells a powerful yet simple message which evokes emotion and memory when you see it. The use of negative space is clever, as it provides 2 different focus points; the paper shapes and the colour behind them. This is a technique I could use for the exhibition.