Paper
This tag marks artwork made from or centered on paper as a primary material, cut, folded, layered, or shaped into the piece itself rather than used only as a surface to paint or draw on. Working this way rewards precision, since paper doesn’t forgive mistakes the way paint can simply be painted over. Use this tag to find work that treats paper as a genuine sculptural material rather than just a blank page waiting for something else to be applied to it.
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Yulia Brodskaya
Yulia Brodskaya is a paper artist who builds bright, three dimensional scenes from nothing but strips of paper and glue. She left a career in digital design to develop her signature quilling style, now collected by brands and museums including Hermès and SFMOMA.
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Jeff Nishinaka
Jeff Nishinaka is a paper sculptor based in Los Angeles who builds intricate, layered relief sculptures using little more than an X-Acto knife, tweezers, and glue. He has created more than 40 custom pieces for Jackie Chan and also teaches at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
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Origami Art
This article traces the history and techniques of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding that began as a pastime for the elite before spreading worldwide. It covers key methods like wet folding and modular origami, and credits Akira Yoshizawa with turning traditional folding into modern artistic expression.
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Sena Runa
Sena Runa is a Turkish paper quilling artist born in Istanbul in 1983, who discovered the craft online in 2013 and left her career in human resources in 2015 to pursue it full time. Her vibrant, joyful designs, rolled and shaped from simple strips of colored paper, led to her first tutorial book, published in…
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Simon Schubert
Simon Schubert is a German artist born in Cologne in 1976, known for turning a single sheet of paper into intricate folded images of grand, empty interiors like ballrooms, staircases, and mirrored corridors. Trained at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, he uses no color or ink, relying only on folds and the natural light in the room…
