The First Cut
5 October 2012 – 27 January 2013
The First Cut is an exhibition that takes place at the Gallery of Costume and Manchester Art Gallery. It features work by 31 international contemporary artists who radically rethink the possibilities of working with paper and take it beyond its natural boundaries. At Manchester Art Gallery you can see a wide variety of artwork, from large-scale installations that explode from gallery walls to intricate, miniature worlds. At the Gallery of Costume three artists have created installations of dresses and shoes.
In this age of austerity, paper is cheap, available and ubiquitous. By transforming books and magazines, maps and currency, using silhouettes, creating dresses, animations, sculptures and installations, the artists in The First Cut demonstrate the huge potential and power of such a humble and fragile material.
Susan Cutts, Violise Lunn and Susan Stockwell have fashioned ‘unwearable’ dresses and shoes from handmade and recycled…
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