About Me

Born Rawtenstall, Lancashire, 1973

Diploma Foundation Studies Art and Design, Newcastle College, 2007

Foundation Degree Fine Art Practice, Newcastle College, 2009

Member of the British Origami Society since 1998.

I currently live and work in the city of Durham, in north-east England, where I teach origami, create original works, and fulfil commissions for private and commercial clients. (I also have a day job, but it's very dull...)

Group Exhibitions

2004 'Contemporary British Origami', Embassy of Japan, London

2006 'Fin che la Barca Va (Tradition and Change)', La Barca, Italy

2007 The Art Works Galleries, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne

2007 'Mapping the Necklace', Necklace Park, Durham

2007 DOTT 07 Design Festival, Baltic Square, Gateshead

2008 The Art Works Galleries, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne

2009 'Eight by Eight', Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne

2009 'Origami. El arte del plegado', Centro de Historia de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

 


Photo courtesy of Kristina Olgyaiová

Published work

Diagrams and photographs of several of my pieces have been published in various publications of the British Origami Society, Origami USA, and the Asociación Española de Papiroflexia. It's not that easy to get hold of these publications if you're not a member of those societies, so you might be more interested in....

Commercial books

Like what you get in bookshops. I have no plans at the moment to do a book of my own, but you can find diagrams of my work in the following:

 

Adult Origami
Nick Robinson
New Holland Publishers (UK), 2004
ISBN 1843307448

(Published in the US as Very Naughty Origami, Universe, 2004, ISBN 0789312077)

You can also find photos of my work in:

 

The Origami Bible
Nick Robinson
Collins & Brown, 2004
ISBN 1843401053

 

 

 

 

The Encyclopedia of Origami
Nick Robinson
Search Press Ltd, 2004
ISBN 1844480259

Hmm, Nick Robinsonseems to crop up in that list quite a bit...

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