After enchanting audiences last year, the unique cardboard world of Grue returns to Scarborough’s Old Parcels Office for corrugated eco-friendly exploration.
Built by Scarborough's community and made entirely of recycled and repurposed materials, Grue is described as
"a fantastical world created from positive energy and discarded paper; a wandering cardboard labyrinth of rooms to explore and wonders to discover."
Grue springs from the imagination of world-renowned paper artist Steve Wintercroft, and has been created with 400 volunteers and members of the local community over recent weeks for a total of 1600 hours, before a team of 10 spent five full days and late evenings assembling the creations into a walk-through experience of rooms and spaces to amuse, entertain and challenge, with an ecological storyline spun through the fantastical place.
Rachel Drew of ARCADE, the Scarborough-based arts company producing the attraction said:
“We had such an amazing reception for such a new and innovative concept last year that we are delighted to bring a brand new Grue to Scarborough this December. After we closed last December, every last scrap of cardboard was recycled, so once again, we’re creating this world from the ground up, and with some very ambitious pieces of cardboard sculpture planned to make this world feel familiar and yet different,”
“There has been an army of 400 contributors, cutting out, sticking tape and glueing to make different components of the display, under Steve’s watchful eye, so this is very much a team effort.”
Explaining this year’s display, Steve says,
“Visitors will be invited to solve a problem in the world of Grue, alongside a moth investigator. They will travel through a range of different locations, including forest, mountain and sky, as well as meeting cardboard characters tall and small.”
Grue runs weekends and school holidays from 3 – 23 December, with visitors allocated 20 minute timeslots for their own experience. There is a suggested ticket price of £3.50, though Grue is offered on a ‘pay what you can’ basis, to ensure that it is accessible to everyone, including free admission for people in receipt of benefits. Tickets should be booked online at https://www.hello-arcade.com/grue-2022
Grue is produced by ARCADE and commissioned by the Old Parcels Office Scarborough, has been funded by Yorkshire Coast BID and G F Smith, with additional support from Arts Council England.
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