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Our next Contemporary Craft Tour will take place in Spring 2009

Paper Trail

Spring 2009 will be touring the work of two contemporary makers who work with paper in sculptural form – Julie Roberts and Peter Rush. 

Julie Roberts creates vessels, lampshades, mirrors, larger scale installation pieces and, more recently a range of jewellery, from an innovative and specially developed method of papermaking.  Her sculptural forms are constructed by combining paper with textile fibres, which are then moulded, dyed and often hand stitched. Julie exhibits nationally, provides textile and arts based workshops to children and adults and is also an educator.  To see more of Julie’s work visit her website at www.julieroberts.co.uk



Peter Rush uses softened paper as a modelling material directly applied to a wire framework to make figures – humans, birds and animals.  Many of Peter’s sculptures are instantly recognisable as figures in the public arena, popular and unpopular, now caricatured and parodied.  Peter applies his magic to various scales - life-size, smaller cased and interactive sculptures, some humorous, some satirical.