First Workshop with Richard Sweeney

We had our first workshop with Richard Sweeney. He introduced us to working with paper, this was the first time i realised how versatile paper could be. He is a very talented artist and we were very lucky to work with him. Below is an example of his work;

From looking at his sketch book and him showing us where to start my experimentation began, in this first workshop the models are very simple and the main approach i took was seeing what the paper could do and in which way it can bend and how you can interact the paper with itself , folding it and interweaving it. Here are some images of the very first models i produced;

A theme i noticed throughout my models was one of the skeleton, how the thin lines of paper cross over with each other and work together to produce a larger model.

Initial research

I looked into an artist called Simon Schubert. He is a very talented artist who works with paper. His pieces show how versatile paper can be. He uses paper creases and folds to create something you wouldn't think just paper could produce.