by Fünchkins
Dean Patman from Hove, Sussex, creates little animal sculptures from found objects. He has always been fascinated with animals, drawing or modelling them, or hunting them as a child in the back garden. While Dean was at St Martins in 1998, he was involved in a once off project using recycled objects to create animal sculptures which set him on his current course of creativity.
This gorgeous mobile is made from hand hammered solid copper that if placed outside will tarnish and acquire a green coating from oxidation. To encourage this tarnishing, the mobile can be hung outside, but it can also be hung inside, where the tarnishing will be slower. There are 14 Ginkgo leaves, and only 100 mobiles made.
The Ginkgo leaf mobile can be found and purchased on Artful Home for $75 each
Shintaro Ohata from Japan has taken on the challenge of preserving simple scenes like a glittering asphalt road on a rainy night. His scenes are records of moments in time depicted using both 2D and 3D elements.
You can see the rest of Shintaro Ohata’s exhibition on My Modern Met
Using 2 different methods to create his sculptural artwork, Mark Doolittle produces amazing carvings. Sometimes he examines a piece of wood for weeks and allows the burl, grain and natural patterns of the wood to dictate what the sculpture will eventually look like. [Read more...]
These wire sculptures from Gavin Worth are a great example of wire work. Gavin Worth is based in San Francisco and uses over 2 metres of wire to create his work.
For the rest of his portfolio, take a look at his site Gavin Worth, via Fubiz
Tony Worrall’s Singing Ringing Tree is one of Lancashire’s Panopticon Sculptures dotted around the area. This one is located near Burnley and produces strange noises when the wind gusts through the pipes.
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Isreali artist, Shay Aaron, makes miniture food sculptures that will blow your mind. The tomato is just one of the fruits, vegetables, sandwiches, salads and cakes that are made into jewellary.
Original pictures fromNazia at The Wondrous
A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and receiver of an MFA, Karen Searle is a fibre and mixed media sculptor. She has had her work exhibited in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Korea. She has conducted numerous lectures, classes and seminars and served as a juror in the International Textile Design Competition in Daegu, Korea in 1997 and 2002. Karen’s work includes wire and fibre works and jewelry, utilizing what is termed as “women’s work” to present her feminine views. All of Karen’s work is one of a kind and she can be contacted regarding the purchase, exhibition and commission of her work or regarding artist workshops or lectures.
Italian sculptor Maurizio Savini is known for making art out of chewing gum. Yeap real actual bubble gum, I guess that’s why he has “Do Not Touch” signs on his exhibits. Now I can just imagine hordes of school kids descending on the exhibitions and stripping all the sculptures to get little pieces of bubble gum for themselves. Maurizio has been commissioned as stage designer by Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Salzburg Easter Festival as well as been awarded a Cité Internationale des Arts scholarship by the city of Paris in 2005. He has also held several dozen exhibitions, the most recent of which is in the Fondazione Pastaficio Cerere now showing till the 27th November 2011.
Joshua Harker is an incredible artist who has realized art exhibited and advertised is changing rapidly, with this he has decided to take advantage of that change. He has opened a Kickstarter page where he plans on getting as many people to view his work as possible, then he will make one sculpture for every one that has pledged to his funding. Joshua’s work is delicate, intriguing and subtly macabre. A great show piece for Halloween and Día de los Muertos.
