[The Guardian] Sculptures created from secondhand books – in pictures

Sculptures created from secondhand books – in pictures

Su Blackwell has always used text in her art, but it was after a trip to Asia that she began creating sculptures from books. “In my last year at college, I went to Thailand and, in a secondhand bookshop, bought a copy of The Quiet American with lines of Thai scrawled in its margins, which added another dimension.” Soon after she returned to the UK her father died and while grieving she found herself picking up the Graham Greene classic and cutting paper moths out of the pages. She then suspended them to form a cloud over the open book. Ever since, she has bought secondhand tomes from which to make sculptures of houses, fairytales, flora and fauna. “My work was once described as if I am ‘weaving with words’,” she says, “and I like that analogy.”

• Su Blackwell’s work is on show at Collect Art Fair, Somerset House, London, until 5 March

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