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Margaret Crossley
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I began making 3-D objects from recycled paper in 1994, after completing a two-year, part-time foundation course in Art and Design at UWIC, Cardiff. Sometimes I use my own drawings but more often commercial waste:phone directories, junk mail, wrapping tissue and magazines. Each piece starts as a rolled-paper construction, which may be left as an open-work frame or covered with a 'skin' of paper collage, before final coating with transparent water-based lacquer. This way of working makes limited demands on the environment, needing only modest workspace, cheap or cost-free materials, simple equipment, and a 'low-tech' making process. It has been a revelation to me that paper,
which I always thought of as a support for 2-D work, can be used to
create three-dimensional forms of so many kinds. I am perpetually fascinated
by the ways in which written or illustrated sheets, which convey one
kind of statement or are associated with a particular context, can be
fragmented and re-combined to produce unexpected alterations in colour,
texture and meaning. Also, I like the way in which this apparently fragile
material can be built up into a piece which has surprising strength
and resilience. |