If you liked the deconstructed book sculptures by Brian Dettmer we featured a few months ago, check out Georgia Russell’s work; like Dettmer, the Scottish artist also uses a scalpel to carve into old books, maps, photographs and newspapers, giving them new life, but her special handiwork instead leaves behind a beautiful, distinct fray of wisps and textures. It’s a little bit like Edward Scissorhands meets the output from a paper shredder. She mounts her works inside acrylic boxes so they’re protected, and in the cases of books that have more elaborate cutting, the pieces are inventively preserved inside a bell jar, perhaps as a reference to their organic beginnings. Russell’s art is currently on display at London gallery England & Co, so make an effort to catch it if you’re in town.

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richard Tuesday, 11.06.07 @ 5:00 pm

Check these sculptural gems created from pulp fiction novels and created by Thomas Allen!

http://www.foleygallery.com/artists/artist_ins.php3?artist=8&painting=2&el=i


Jacqueline Monday, 12.08.08 @ 8:48 pm

you might enjoy looking at the book art on my site. I’m going to be in an exhibition with Dettmar and Russell in Washington soon called the Book Borrowers: Contemporary Artists Transforming the Book, Bellevue Arts Museum. (These two are fantastic artists and their work is outstanding).
Aloha,
Jacqueline




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