PAPERCUTS

As a firm believer in the sharing of knowledge, Eleanor is always looking for ways to disseminate her research to a wider audience. After writing her children’s book, ‘Porridge and the Big Pile of Poo’, she noted how younger readers were drawn to the naïve art form.

Eleanor has recently begun to create papercuts that will be used to explain how people of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used to clothe themselves and what those garments can tell us about the way that they lived and worked.

She has also found that the papercut medium lends itself to animation as demonstrated in the video below.

PAPERCUTS - ANIMATIONS

A papercut animation, made for children, to show how a middle or upper class woman of the 1850s would have dressed for a formal afternoon outing. The video was made using a combination of stop motion animation and digitial manipulation.