Paper ~n~Ice

The Snow Queen~ Set Design at The Rose Theatre in Kingston

...Paper Cut Out Design on Steroids...

If you haven't seen the Glorious and Meticulous paper art of artist Su Blackwell...please sit back, and take in this little etude...for she is an amazing teller of the stories you may, or may not know in 

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...An AmAzinG ArTisT...

Su Blackwell is an artist and art director, working predominantly within the realm of paper. 

In 2010, Su Blackwell Studios collaborated with Nicole Farhi, London, and worked on advertising campaigns for Pilsner Urquell and O2, amongst others.  Su exhibited the fine-art side of her practice at The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, and more recently in her Solo Show ‘Happily Ever After’ at Long and Ryle Gallery in London.

 In an interview Ms. Blackwell talked about her approach to set design, something which she hasn't tackled before. 

Here are some excerpts:

"It starts off with an industrial, Victorian, brick town in Denmark, which is quite bleak and then as Girder travels through the seasons, it becomes a magical, fantasy world," says Blackwell. "My favourite scene is Mrs D's garden, which is quite surreal and topsy-turvy. I had fun playing with the scale of props for that and planning explosions of colour for the stage."

”I often work within the realm of fairy-tales and folk-lore. I began making a series of book-sculpture, cutting-out images from old books to create three-dimensional diorama’s, and displaying them inside wooden boxes”.

”For the cut-out illustrations, I tend to lean towards young-girl characters, placing them in haunting, fragile settings, expressing the vulnerability of childhood, while also conveying a sense of childhood anxiety and wonder. There is a quiet melancholy in the work, depicted in the material used, and choice of subtle colour.”

 

 I hope you find this work inspirational

I know I do

...So...

off to my studio :)