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Papergirl submissions 2011-12

About 48Sheet: Urban Gallery

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
MARCH 31st 2012

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

>Papergirl Night Tuesday April 24th

>Distribution Saturday
April 28th


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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 B̶e̶r̶l̶i̶n̶e̶r̶s̶ 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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MAKE IT HAPPEN & GET INVOLVED!

DELIVER IN PERSON OR POST YOUR SUBMISSIONS TO:

'PAPERGIRL BIRMINGHAM'

THE FRAMERS,
Studio4 Gallery, The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4AA,
United Kingdom.

OR

THE ELECTRIC CINEMA,
47-49 Station Street, Birmingham,
B5 4DY, United Kingdom.


    


EMAIL US
papergirlbirmingham@gmail.com


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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 Dublin

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

CANADA
Papergirl Vancouver
Papergirl Kelowna
Papergirl Calgary
Papergirl Sunshine Coast

SOUTH AMERICA
Papergirl Rafaela, Argentina

EUROPE
Papergirl Berlin
Papergirl Hamburg
Papergirl Trier
Papergirl La Louvière
Papergirl Copenhagen
Papergirl Barcelona
Papergirl Moldova
Papergirl Istanbul
Papergirl Zagreb
Romania
Papergirl Bucharest
Papergirl Sibiu
Papergirl Iasi
Papergirl Brasov

SOUTH AFRICA
Papergirl Capetown

AUSTRALIA
Papergirl Brisbane
Papergirl Toowoomba





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

 

READ ALL ABOUT IT!

The new year brings new news.  Papergirl Birmingham has teamed up with billboard art project 48Sheet - an opportunity which has been worth holding out for.  

“The reason that we (48SHEET) LOVE the Papergirl concept is because it fits beautifully with EC-Arts objectives to create artistic interventions within public space and we wholeheartedly support anyone with the same objectives to make art accessible.”

48SHEET will transform the city of Birmingham into an urban gallery by utilising up to 100 billboards, exhibiting regional, national and international artists work from the 2nd to the 29th April 2012.  

The project is one of many from the non-profit organisation EC-Arts.  A previous project Beautify the City in 2010 involved Birmingham born artist Lucy Mclauchlan (recently published in The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art).   

“Birds ‘perch’ on the Brutalist-style Birmingham Central Library – a huge inverted concrete ziggurat built in 1974, designed by Architect John Madin.”   

Lucy’s murals have received adoring reactions, infusing new life into the building. There’s a handsome Flickr set of the artwork taken by Steve Martin awaiting your gaze here.


THE PAPEGIRL BIRMINGHAM EXHIBITION
Submissions received will be affectionately exhibited in April in the 48Sheet project space at THE MAILBOX Birmingham.  Closing date for submissions MARCH 31ST, so reach for your pencil / pen / paint brush / printer / potato, whatever your tools may be and send your art to England’s heart.  Prizes for any submissions arriving by carrier pigeon.

Papergirl 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 that all levels and styles of prints, stickers, posters, photos, stories, illustrations, zines, drawings, paintings, textiles, t-shirts come together in one unique roll.


NEW LOOK LOGO AND FLYER
Birmingham based graphic designer and illustrator Claire Hartley has lovingly created a series of logos, flyers, and posters to help identify the project.  Claire has been amazing to work with and even though I cannot thank her enough for her time and attention, a twee venture into this territory was made here, here, and here. 

Deliver or post your submissions to THE FRAMERS, The Custard Factory or THE ELECTRIC CINEMA, 47 Station St, Birmingham.  You can send up to 15 pieces, including duplicates.  

If you have any questions or would like to take part as a ravishingly roadworthy cyclist during the distribution roll & ride email  → papergirlbirmingham@gmail.com                                                  x x 


P.S. Big Thank you to Pashley Cycles for inclusion of their beautiful Guv’nor and Princess Sovereign bicycles in our flyer.

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