Category: Sculpture
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Sculptor Creates Giant Angel Using Thousands of Illegal Knifes Confiscated By Police
The creators of a 24ft-high angel statue made of knives collected from police amnesties have said they were overwhelmed by how many weapons they had gathered, but the sculpture has divided opinion among the families of knife crime victims. The sculpture, the work of artist Alfie Bradley, will be finished next autumn and will tour…
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Architects Create Giant Sea Urchin Installations That Interact with Their Surroundings
Choi+Shine Architects have designed The Urchins, as part of an art installation for the recently held 2017 iLight Marina Bay Festival in Singapore. The Urchins were created in response to the festivals theme of biomimicry and sustainability. The three large Urchins were designed to interact with natural light during the day, and glow when illuminated…
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Johnson Tsang Creates a New Series of Warped Face Sculptures
When we last sawJohnson Tsang (here), he masterfully crafted organic and fluid forms to bring otherwise mundane stoneware to life in his Living Clay series. Tsang is back with his latest series, Open Mind, where he continues to push realism’s boundaries in his sculptures of faces that are stretched and opened up in surreal ways. Tsang…
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Can A Single Book Disrupt the Foundation of a Brick Wall?
How much power does one book hold? That’s the central question of a unique installation by Mexican artist Jorge Mendez Blake. For his 2007 project, “The Castle” (named after The Castle by Franz Kafka), Mendez Blake constructed a single wall of bricks—75 feet long, 13 feet high—without mortar. Each brick was placed uniformly and intentionally, as with any wall, but Blake also included an…
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Artist James Brunt Arranges Leaves and Rocks Into Elaborate Mandalas
Artist James Brunt is not your normal artist. He creates elaborate artworks using the natural materials he finds in forests, parks, and beaches near his home in Yorkshire, England. James collects twigs, rocks, and leaves and arranges them in mandala-like spirals and concentric circles. He photographs his finished work to document it before nature once…
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The Most Famous Cat in Istanbul Is Honored With His Own Statue
You might remember the various memes that hit the interwebs a little while ago when someone snapped a photograph of Tombili chilling on the steps of a street in Istanbul. It didn’t take long for Tombili to become an internet legend, so it was fitting that when he passed away in August, he was honored in the real…
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Introducing: The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces
Now it is true that people will collect almost anything, but there is a place in Chichibu, Japan, where the collection is possibly one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces. The museum houses all kinds of jinmenseki, or rock…
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Statue of a Girl Stares Down the Famous ‘Charging Bull’ on Wall St
Earlier this week, a small bronze statue of a girl, designed by artist Kristen Visbel, appeared overnight in the path of the bull statue. The young girl stares down the famous Wall Street charging bull in an act of defiance. It’s intended to highlight the gender disparity of senior level roles at US financial firms; 85…
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Did You Know There Was a Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces?
Now it is true that people will collect almost anything, but there is a place in Chichibu, Japan, where the collection is possibly one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces. The museum houses all kinds of jinmenseki, or rock with a human face,…
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Artist Carves a Family Of Elephants Into a Pencil
When we last saw Cindy Chinn, she carved a train into a pencil that went completely viral all over the interwebs (see HERE). Here latest and most elaborate creation is the Elephant Walk, commissioned by the Epiphany Elephant Museum. According to Cindy, the design started out simple, an Elephant with a foil stamped logo. Then she got…