Based in Manchester, UK, in the city’s Green Quarter, PAPER is an artist-run commercial gallery lead by Andrea Cotton, David Hancock, and Simon Woolham, selling affordable and accessible paper based works. PAPER represents a range of emerging and mid-career artists whose practice is based around the medium of paper. This ranges from drawing, artist’s books, video, and performance. For Supermarket PAPER will present a new series of prints from Stockholm-based artist Pär Strömberg created during a residency at the Lithography Museum Printshop. PAPER will also present work from gallery artists Hayley Lock, Barbara Walker, Richard Meaghan, Wen Wu, Jenny Core, Bethan Hamilton, Susannah Douglas, James Moore, Dawn Woolley, Alice Bradshaw, David Miles, Jenny Steele, and Naomi Lethbridge.

PAPER opened in August 2012 and has taken part in The Manchester Contemporary, Sluice, London and Trajector in Brussels. PAPER has a regular programme of exhibitions, presenting the work of gallery artists as well as providing a platform for outside curatorial projects. PAPER also instigated an Artist-in-Residence programme, Exploring PAPER, selecting the artist Rachel Wrigley. PAPER is open to the public every Saturday 11am-5pm.