Abigail reynolds

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Abigail Reynolds

Abigail Reynolds creates folded assemblages from vintage photographs. She finds her source materials at flea markets and old bookstores “The act of folding one image into the other pushes them out …

Abigail Reynolds

For English artist Abigail Reynolds, winning the BMW Art Journey allowed her to go on a pilgrimage of epic proportions spanning three quarters of the globe in search of the lost libraries of the Silk Road, which she recorded on a medium – 16-mm film – that she had never used before.

British artist Abigail Reynolds folds paper. And she does so like nobody's business. As one who struggles just to get a standard sized sheet of paper folded and fitted into an envelope in a neat-ish manner, I can't even begin to tell you how impressive I find this. And she does it all by using old bookplates and found images, folding and cutting and creasing, fitting them seamlessly together to sculpt an image entirely new. {all images Abigail Reynolds} Pretty cool, huh? xo

Michael Hoppen Gallery on Instagram: “Abigail Reynolds’ source material are often places and moments that resonate, the Cornish landscape she currently calls home, London and…”

Abigail Reynolds - Reynolds starts with a vintage book plate as the ‘base’ of the collage, and then searches for other old photographs of the location taken from a similar p...

Abigail Reynolds

Stunning cut & folded paper sculptures by Abigail Reynolds. Via Kempt Life. Share this post: on Twitter on Facebook on Google+

British artist Abigail Reynolds does not take images at face value. Using the art of collage, she enhances the original picture by creating intricate assemblages out of repurposed vintage photographs, magazines, encyclopedias, atlases, and other materials she finds. "The act of folding one image into the other pushes them out into three dimensions in a bulging time ruffle," she says. Often, these feature rural England, architectural landmarks, and obscure landscapes, folded into…

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St Pauls from the South Bank 1950 / 1970 (2011) - Abigail Reynolds