Joni Smith is a highly skilled paper and installation artist. Manipulating fragments of maps and atlases, Joni cuts and twists them to create exquisitely intricate artworks. Some of the pieces are constructed from hundreds of paper squares. A combination of darts and twists enable these pieces to be reconnected without glue or tape.
Joni devises a set of rules to follow and from then on she become machine-like in her adherence to them. Through this labour intensive process, as each piece takes shape it is clear to see one world breaking down as another parallel one emerges. By dissecting and reassembling everyday objects and subverting their original intensions Joni is creating a new landscape and new way of seeing.
Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts, Modern Dutch Interiors, 2014. Coracle, Ireland. A collection of Dutch envelope interiors sent by Peter Foolen to Erica Van Horn
Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck, 367, 2017. 367 days’ worth of photographs of the sky, taken between 12-2pm each day
Caroline Penn, Chair Stories No.5. Digital print on Japanese paper, edition of 20
Visitors and exhibitors at the Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London. Photo: Caspar Evans.
Julie Johnstone, fixed|unfixed, Essence Press, 2017. An ongoing project creating 25mm badges as wearable publications
Sally Payen, Thatcher's Hair. 15cm by 15cm, oil on board. Courtesy: the artist
Lizzie Philps, GPS Embroidery
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Copyright: David Sands. Licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
Praneet Soi, The Falling Figure
Ulay, There is a Criminal Touch to Art, 1976. Film still. Courtesy of Ulay Foundation
Uncle Dominique. Cezanne, Paul (French, 1839-1906). Oil on canvas, height 39.0 cm, width 30.5 cm, circa 1866.
Iván Navarro, The Twin Towers, 2011. Copyright: The artist. Photo: Thelma Garcia. Courtesy: Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris-Brussels
Kerri Jefferis, Sophie Chapman and Rosalie Schweiker, New Words Please
Freya Purdue, Sulphur Series, Diptych 3, 2017, oil on canvas
Lucy Harvey, Mutual Improvement Society. Created following Harvey's residency at Quarry Bank, a National Trust property in Cheshire. Photo: Stephen Iles
Lucy Harvey, Mutual Improvement Society. Created following Harvey's residency at Quarry Bank, a National Trust property in Cheshire. Photo: Stephen Iles
Heather and Ivan Morison, LookLookLook!, a temporary pavilion created in response to the eighteenth century walled garden at Berrington Hall, a neo-classical mansion in Herefordshire managed by the National Trust. Photo: Ivan Morison