Exhibition Category: Pop-up

Magic House

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Paul Johnson Magic House 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Magic House The book is made from Waterford watercolour paper coloured with applied industrial textile dyes and with pen and ink line work. It is loosely based on ‘Beauty and the Beast’, an accordion book in a box pubished by Walker Books in 1983 and on 19th Century ‘novelty’ toy theatres. As the pages are joined by dovetail hinges they can all be detached and the order re-arranged. It is inspired by the manor houses illustrated in medieval books of hours and Kay Nielsen’s 1920s fairy tale children’s...

Tree House

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Paul Johnson Tree House 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Tree House A ninety-degree unique pop-up. As it is designed to be seen in the round, like sculpture, my aim was to make it pleasing from whatever angle it is viewed, including from above. The book is made from Waterford watercolour paper coloured with applied industrial textile dyes and additional pen and ink line work. As each part is a separate unit held together with paper dovetail joints, the whole form can be taken to pieces and rearranged. The sections move about more freely than if they were glued together and so by gently moving...

Winged

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Antoinette Moorby Winged 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Winged This was the first book I produced for The Bookband Art collaboration. I completed an online workshop with the London Drawing Centre on Matisse, looking at the way he used cut paper shapes to create art works. Following further research into his work I discovered his cut out and simplified bird shapes. I decided to take this idea and used different sizes and shapes of triangle to create my own birds. I wanted to incorporate movement into this book and so landed on the idea of pop-up and a flock of birds taking flight. The book...