As you may have known from reading my previous posts I am currently working on a project about Paper. I finally found a proposition to work from which is ‘Blank Paper Syndrome is a Creative Nightmare.’ However as I have started to generate ideas around my proposition I have found it difficult to find the correct method or technique to get my message across. Therefore it was a massive relief when our University arranged to visit the First Cut Exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. The exhibition displaying artists such as Rob Ryan, James Aldridge and Su Blackwell to name a few was not what I had in mind. I had expected a lot of intricate paper cut images, all displayed behind a glass frame. Yes there was a lot of cut paper but there was much more…

Walking through the exhibition I was surprised to see such variety and the…