Graduate creates winter wonderland
3 December 2012
Manchester Art Gallery display
A MAGICAL Christmas installation created by an MMU graduate will be unveiled at Manchester Art Gallery tomorrow.
Andy Singleton, who studied Illustration with Animation and graduated in 2006, will install the paper “ice structure”, inspired by icicles and frozen waterfalls, in the gallery’s atrium.
The 29 year-old, who has also created installations for the Crafts Council and Liberty, said: “A previous installation I made in Wales was like an ice cavern made from paper. Apparently the gallery have been thinking about getting a paper artist in there for a while, so this was perfect.
“The atrium is a different space to work in – I decided to create a hanging sculpture that will look like layers of ice – almost like a huge chandelier. It’s been quite an interesting project.”
Pushing boundaries
Andy started to work with paper in the final year of his degree by cutting into illustrations that he was creating.
“I decided that two dimensional papercuts were an interesting way to make pictures,” he said. “I was doing really detailed drawings and I was trying to find a way to push that further. I found that the things I wanted to express worked better.”
Andy’s work is also included in the gallery’s latest exhibition, The First Cut, along with work by two other MMU graduates – Nicola Dale, a BA Interactive Arts graduate, and James Aldridge, who studied Fine Art.
His installation, Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula, is based on images seen through the Hubble space telescope of massive sculptural dust clouds hanging in outer space.