{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1766430"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1766430/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2023NN6977/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2023NN6977/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"low","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2023NN6977","copyright":"Summer Cut. Papercut and  watercolour by Gill Germain,  2019 (c) Gill Germain","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024NY9157","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London / Gill Germain","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024NY9159","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London / Gill Germain","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024NY9138","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London / Gill Germain","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1766430","accessionNumber":"E.793-2024","objectType":"Cut paper work","titles":[{"title":"Summer cut","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"This work is intricate example of the cut paper process. The artist, Gill Germain, takes approximately a year to make them. Germain, lives in an isolated location in the North Pennines where ‘the skies are huge and the heather clad hills are dressed by the mood of the day.’ Originally a painter, she turned to working with the paper cut process in 2006, using the landscape around her as inspiration but responding to her anxieties about climate change and the effects of humans on the environment as well as her identity as a woman at an unsettling time of her life. She first makes a sketch on the paper and adds colour washes in watercolour. She then cuts freehand using a scalpel and working through the back of the paper, protecting the surface from her working hand with layers of paper, and working small areas of a few centimetres at a time, filling ‘the space with intricate lines that grow and connect’. ","physicalDescription":"Papercut with watercolour depicting an egg surrounded by grasses and flowers, with edges resembling blades of grass. A verse is cut at the base of the egg.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Germain, Gill","id":"AUTH392458"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour (paint)","id":"AAT15045"},{"text":"paper (fiber product)","id":"AAT14109"}],"techniques":[{"text":"cut paper work","id":"x37708"},{"text":"watercolour painting (technique)","id":"THES250889"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour and cut paper","categories":[{"text":"Woman Artist","id":"THES387590"},{"text":"Cut-paper work","id":"THES277743"},{"text":"Watercolours","id":"THES277714"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2023NN6977","2024NY9157","2024NY9159","2024NY9138"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"PD","shelf":"347","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"cut paper work","id":"x37708"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Northumberland","id":"x29447"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2019","earliest":"2019-01-01","latest":"2019-12-31"},"association":{"text":"dated","id":"AAT54714"},"note":"dated by the artist"}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"53","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"approximate, edges iregular"},{"dimension":"Width","value":"39","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"approximate, edges irregular"}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"I stay here collecting eggs\r\nAnd press them to my head\r\nAnd listen\r\nTo the urgent\r\nNeed to leave\r\nAnd safe keeping turns\r\nTo just\r\nKeeping","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"part of the paper cut, base of egg, in cursive lettering"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Cut paper work by Gill Germain, Summer Cut, Great Britain, 2019.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"grass","id":"AAT11872"},{"text":"egg","id":"AAT11801"},{"text":"flowers (plants)","id":"AAT132399"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.793-2024"],"accessionNumberNum":"793","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2024,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-13","recordCreationDate":"2023-09-28","availableToBook":false}}