Paper City
Innovative art trail around the Fruit Market in Hull of installations using paper from the Colorplan range of Hull paper merchant G.F. Smith. There were some delightful works in this trail but it was also a chance to visit unusual buildings such as smoke house. Some installations such as that by Adam Holloway which used the structural qualities of the strength of the paper to build a large spiral work in white and coloured paper. Others used the colour such as “The Fabric of Hull” which was hanging using the different coloured papers woven together and made by the employees of G.F. Smith. My favourite piece was Jacqueline Poncelet’s “Island Life” which placed folder shapes in different colours on the floor of a closed space. As you walked through it you could see the colours change as you saw them in different combinations. There was also a pop up shop featuring items in the World’s favourite colour, as researched through an online project. The colour was a called Mar...