Generations of children have grown up watching TV-cartoons from the 1950s onwards. The often improbable storylines and self-contained worlds that…
For Space
What is space exactly? Something we simply move through and exist within? That houses and contains us? Space is…
Lisa Denyer: Painting and the Digital Collide
Painting and the digital collide – PAPER artist, Lisa Denyer’s current show, at Kir Royal in Madrid, includes works signalling an…
Sharon Leahy-Clark: Me, Myself and… the Other
A strange magic haunts the work of PAPER artist Sharon Leahy-Clark, whose images and sculptures seem more like windows into…
Tracey Eastham: Symbols of Identity
“The Lake District isn’t real,” artist Tracey Eastham remarked as we sat talking, “it’s a myth.” At first, all I…
Hannah Farrell: Confronting Emptiness
Three small panels of iridescent surface; green, red and blue. To gaze into each is an act of bravery: surrendering…
Ilona Kiss: Freeing the Shadows
Dreams have been a powerful source of inspiration since the beginning of human creativity. But it’s the space between sleep…
Creative Tourist: Ruby Tingle at PAPER Gallery
“Zoology is wonderful, but so is cryptozoology; a subject that is still disappointingly ridiculed,” believes Manchester-based artist Ruby Tingle. If…
Are cat videos the new opiate?
“Kittens” was the answer Tim Bernes Lees famously gave in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) when asked what was…
PAPER #32: Tracing Many Things
PAPER’s current show, Tracing PAPER, presents new work by nine artists from the North West, developed over the last ten…
