Clare Bryan takes the practice of making Artist’s Books to a new level. In Bryan’s work, the paper itself becomes the art work. She manipulates, cuts, sculpts and shapes paper, making scalpel drawings and book structures in which layered shapes unfold to reveal a narrative or image. The process of cutting away, the space left behind, creates its own eerie significance.

Her work also features images of trees, lichen and moss – self-contained worlds that have their own growth, evolution and change.