Cybèle Young’s exquisite Japanese paper sculptures

Cybèle Young’s Japanese paper sculptures and her award winning illustrations deserve an update from the last time the Toronto artist was featured on the Art Junkie (here). These are some of her recent works.

Young is a renowned artist and author, whose work is exhibited and collected internationally. She spends her days creating miniature worlds from fine Japanese papers.

Since graduating from sculpture and printmaking at the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1995, Cybèle has been showing her work in galleries around the world, including New York, LA, Miami, London, Stockholm, Japan, Singapore, Korea and across Canada.

“I create exact miniature replicas of real life objects and abstract shapes,” Young says.

“Before the sculptures are sequestered to life under glass, I often animate their moving parts in stop motion film works, offering clues to their fictional history.” See the stop motion video below or on Vimeo here.

Her work resides in major collections around the world – including OMERS, Ernst and Young, BMO, Gryphon, Canadian Foreign Affairs and the Canada Council Art Bank – and in the private homes of collectors such as Ben Stiller, Noah Baumbach, and Christian Louboutin.

Cybèle Young’s website, here.

Her Instagram, here.

Her books, here.