Workshop 1 with Richard Sweeney

Wednesday 26th Jan

This is our first paper engineering workshop with Richard Sweeney.
Richard studied Art and Design in 2002 and then went on to study three dimensional design which led him to hand manipulating paper into sculpture like forms.He also does photography and takes photos of his pieces and catches the light and shadows that they create.

Richard started by giving us a demonstration of a simple paper design and showed us how the paper bends, hangs and creates shadows. At first I thought this exercise was going to be simple but as soon as i started I realised how hard it was to make the paper do what i wanted it to.

Heres a few experiments I did in the workshops;