The Sunday Paper #506

April 28, 2024

Finalists for the 2024 Paper on Skin™ wearable paper art awards have been announced. Thirty-five works of exceptional quality will be presented at the gala parade and award evening in Devonport, Tasmania, (AUS) on 21 September 2024. “Paper on Skin™ evolves every year,” says Coordinator, Lyndal Thorne. “2024 is no exception. We have had a 60% increase in entries. The creative and innovative use of paper continues to amaze and impress us. The selected finalists have demonstrated a mastery of technique and a visionary approach to the challenge of creating a wearable garment made from 80% paper.”

Thirty-five works have been selected involving a total of forty artists, representing 11 countries, who are in the running for ten prizes worth a total of AUD $14 000 dollars. Paper on Skin™ major partner – Devonport City Council; the event is also supported by North West Support Services and the Tasmanian Government. Click through to see the finalists. I am so excited to be attending this event!

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Amsterdam-based duo Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker created this unique wearable catalog (1,400 pages!). The arm piece contains black-and-white hand illustrations from 303 of Rembrandt’s etchings and drawings. The Cooper Hewitt Museum owns the original piece.

As seen on Colossal. All images © Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker, shared with permission.

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Mitsumata is the traditional fiber used to make for Japanese bank notes, and cash is still common in Japan. Every 20 years, the world’s third-most-traded currency goes in for a redesign, and 2024 is one of those years. This is a fascinating story about how farmers in Nepal are now supplying the fiber needed to print the yen – enough to fill about seven cargo containers – first winding its way downhill to the Indian port of Kolkata, to sail 40 days to Osaka.

The bark goes through an arduous process of stripping, beating, stretching and drying.

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There are a couple spaces remaining in the North Country Shifu Workshop, hosted by Washi Arts in Blaine, Washington (between Bellingham WA and Vancouver BC) May 30 – June 2. Learn to make paper yarn and paper cloth with visiting artist Velma Bolyard.

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Paper Tidbits

• The North American Hand Papermaker’s annual conference will take place in Denver October 17-19, 2024. They are currently accepting proposals for talks, panel discussions and demos.
• Goran Konjevod folds paper in the most amazing ways.

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About our Sponsor: Paper on Skin™ is a biennial event that began in Burnie in 2012, drawing on the region’s industrial papermaking history. This area – the beautiful North-West Coast of Tasmania – has now transformed from its industrial past. It has become a region celebrating culture, food, innovative technologies and tourism. Paper on Skin™ is emblematic of this change. 2024 will mark the 7th iteration of Paper on Skin™.

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