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Papergirl submissions 2011-12

Papergirl Projects Worldwide

About 48Sheet: Urban Gallery

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
MARCH 31st 2012

EXHIBITION: From April
21st -27th at 48Sheet,
The Mailbox, Wharfside, Birmingham

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Papergirl is a global project that aims to open the art world into the urban streets of everyday life. It is an intervention seeking to surprise people and to heartily upturn the notable predictability of day to day life.

Berlin art student Aisha Ronniger began developing the project in 2006, and through her online documentation of the project, unwittingly inspired like-minded folk from around the globe into organising a Papergirl project in their city.

Papergirl aspires to broaden the public consciousness of both local and global artists, and provide them with a wider, more liberal venue to exhibit their work.

The concept begins with an open call for art, welcoming anyone creatively minded to submit their drawings, paintings, screen prints, photographs, textiles, stickers, poems, zines… anything that can be rolled up and transported with ease.

Art is collected, exhibited, and then distributed on mass to an unsuspecting public, via an atmospheric array of honkingly exuberant and ravishingly roadworthy Brummies on bicycles.

You don’t have to be a girl to be involved in Papergirl. If a blend of bicycles and art speak to you then get in touch to be a part of Birmingham’s first Papergirl.

Papergirl is, in short: Participatory, analogue, non-commercial and impulsive.
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❖ THE IDEA of the project is to open the art world to people who often don’t instinctively or actively seek it out; to surprise people and bring them into contact with art in their everyday life.

❖ The initial impulse for this project came about due to a tightening of a law in 2005, associating postering in public places with graffiti-spraying. The idea of distributing art by bicycle emerged during the search for new ways to bring art straight to society, and have more fun doing so than out of fear of possible punishment.

❖ The project is all-inclusive and there are no restrictions on medium, nor on participants’ age, education, gender, location or background. Both emerging and more established artists are welcome to take part. This means a diverse range of prints, stickers, posters, photographs, illustrations, zines, drawings, paintings, textiles, t-shirts, can be brought together to form a series of unique art rolls.




PAPERGIRL WORLD

PAPERGIRL BERLIN

UNITED KINGDOM
Papergirl Manchester
Papergirl Birmingham
Papergirl Leeds
Papergirl Newcastle
Papergirl Glasgow
Papergirl Oxford
Papergirl Bristol
Papergirl Cardiff
Papergirl Norwich
Papergirl Chesterfield
Papergirl London
Papergirl Dublin
Papergirl Belfast

UNITED STATES
Papergirl New York
Papergirl Portland
Papergirl Charlotte
Papergirl San Francisco
Papergirl Columbus
Papergirl Northampton
Papergirl Austin Texas
Papergirl Detroit
Papergirl Los Angeles
Papergirl Boone
Papergirl Flagstaff
Papergirl Quad Cities

CANADA
Papergirl Vancouver
Papergirl Kelowna
Papergirl Calgary
Papergirl Sunshine Coast
Papergirl Toronto

SOUTH AMERICA
Papergirl Rafaela, Argentina

NORTH AMERICA
Papergirl Mexico

EUROPE
Papergirl Berlin
Papergirl Hamburg
Papergirl Hannover
Papergirl Trier
Papergirl La Louvière
Papergirl Copenhagen
Papergirl Poland
Papergirl Barcelona
Papergirl Moldova
Papergirl Istanbul
Papergirl Zagreb
Papergirl Novi Sad
Papergirl Beograd
Papergirl Zenica
Papergirl Banja Luka
Papergirl Rijeka
Papergirl Banjaluka
Papergirl Estonia
Romania
Papergirl Bucharest
Papergirl Constanta
Papergirl Sibiu
Papergirl Iasi
Papergirl Brasov
Papergirl Cluj-Napoca

SOUTH AFRICA
Papergirl Capetown

AUSTRALIA
Papergirl Brisbane
Papergirl Toowoomba
Papergirl Sydney




PAPERGIRL
Participatory // Analogue //
Non-commercial // Impulsive