Prof. Yoshinobu Miyamoto at The Paper Convention

I know, it's been paper, paper and more paper. But it's the buzz word and I just can't get enough of it. A few of us went to the lecture by Prof. Yoshinobu Miyamoto, (let's call him YM) bought out by UTS for The Paper Convention all the way from Japan.

It's always hard going to a lecture by an international artist, as you wonder if the language barrier will be a problem - but, boy was it NO problem at all. YM was so humble, kind and generous with his lecture - talking us through each and every process of making his minimalist geometric paper structures.

The highlight was definitely the demo of the Craft Robo, a tiny desktop machine that he uses to cut and score paper drawn up in Google Sketchup - a free 3D drawing program.

The pictures speak for themselves and YM has re-energised our love of paper by getting back to basics; cutting, folding and making.

To see all of YM's work here. A big shout out to Lisa Loxley for putting on a fantastic week of paper - we look forward to the next one - bigger and even better!