Exceptional New Life for Discarded Objects

Earlier this month an exhibit by artist Kylie Stillman (book art and paper carvings previously featured here) opened at Town Hall Gallery in Boroondara, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Kylie Stillman: Not fully or properly either of two things includes work drawn from the past twenty years, as well as new sculptural pieces and sewn paper drawings, all with an engagement to nature.


Pictured here with Verso, Kylie explains that it is a new scalpel-carved work created from more than two hundred books sourced from the Boroondara Library Service’s deaccessioned book collection. She studied painting at RMIT University in Melbourne, but found she prefers the challenge of transforming discarded materials by hand.

From the Town Hall Gallery media release: For this exhibition, Kylie draws on the sewing and garment construction skills she learnt at a young age. Stillman's practice explores what it means to show three dimensional forms on a two-dimensional plane.