Rebecca J Coles

Rebecca J Coles completed her BA at Winchester School of Art in 2000, followed by an MA at the prestigious Royal College of Art, London in 2002. Since then she has exhibited Internationally in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Washington, Sydney, Bath and Miami.

As a paper artist Coles focuses on the reinvention of entomological cataloguing, display and the assemblage of shapes. She is fascinated with the process by which three-dimensional decorative forms materialise out of flat sheets of paper. By deconstructing various paper ephemera, she creates unique works of art.
The delineation of these forms within the ethos and methods of her work requires an absolute labour of love, where repetition has always been notable and each piece is composed of hundreds if not thousands of profiles.

"Each shape is hand drawn and then intricately hand cut from carefully selected paper, focusing on recycling a medium that would otherwise be discarded and lost. I dissect small details of colour, imagery and text into silhouettes that are then re-sculptured, pinned and encased. My aim is to transform an everyday object into a piece of work that invites the viewer to see beyond its original source."