“a gathering of writing and art work
from and of personal storytellers”
Grey Paper Crane is a catalogue of writing, theatre projects, film and visual art. Featuring works that are Process Art, documentation writing, projects with a particular focus on lived experiences and biography as source materials.
Mandate:
As an online platform, Grey Paper Crane seeks to document artist and their particular interested in self-based or biographical or lived experience based works. We believe the internet is a sensible, open platform to inform and feature artistic work. We aim to connect locally and across international borders. We commit to document a culture of critical thinking and personally developed artistic practices.
Diversity statment:
Diversity means a combination of the many intersections of different walks of life. It is not limited to race, gender, but also socio-economic standing, neurodivergence, disability, indigeneity. Grey Paper Crane points to artist and audiences from different backgrounds, non-homogenous, who are sensitive and aware of oppressive language, traumatic triggers, slurs or slander extant in art, and media. Grey Paper Crane acknowledges the existence of oppressive social barriers.
LEADERSHIP:
Head Editor: Bertha Lee
The first three years, Grey Paper Crane developed under a rotation of interim leadership teams. Moderated by Bertha Lee, each year marked a new year of development under different artistic leaders-in-residence. This unique leadership scheme allowed Grey Paper Crane to grow fluidly and grow better with the insight of new residents in our early years. Since 2019, documentation writing and project archiving of projects created by artists within the network has been the main activities of Grey Paper Crane.
HISTORY before 2019:
2014-2015: conception, Bertha Lee begins Grey Paper Crane to create work that is inspired by an Artist’s perspective.
2015-2016: development, Bertha Lee begins experiments to develop GPC’s group organization with Harsharan Sidhu in Toronto, CAN.
2016-2017: a focus on connection, Bertha Lee establishes a diversity statement with Nemo Martin in London, UK. They together produce Man Friday. Recognition goes to Julian Yap and Urvashi Bohra for their efforts in the production of Man Friday.
2017-2018: a solo year, Bertha Lee takes perspectives garnered from previous years and begins a curated editorial of early career artists profiles. Namely we profiled Nemo Martin and Raf Antionio.
2019: updated mandate and officially established in 2019, Grey Paper Crane is focused on early retrospection of creatives who source their own lives to create meaningful artistic work in any form.
Based in Tkaronto/Toronto, CAN.
