Tag: sculptor
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A Giant Serpent Emerges From the Sea Off the Coast of France
If you’re after something a little different and love skeletons, head to France. That’s because there you will find Serpent d’océan, a giant aluminum sea serpent skeleton by artist Huang Yong Ping situated off the shore of the Loire River where it empties into the Bay of Biscay just outside of Nantes, France. Measuring nearly…
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Artist Creates Amazing Sculptures Out of Almost Anything
Daniele Barresi is an award-winning carving designer. Born and raised in Italy, he now calls Sydney, Australia home. Barresi has become world-renowned for his extraordinary artistic carving abilities involving a range of mediums like fruits, vegetables, cheeses and soaps. The artist currently does commissions for special events and also teaches carving classes in Sydney showing…
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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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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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Artist Makes Incredible Creatures Out of Driftwood
James Doran-Webb is an amazing British artist currently based in The Philippines. James made his first foray into animal sculptures over 25 years ago with papier mâché, but five years later he began collecting pieces of driftwood and has now amassed a substantial collection that he forages through at his studio. Driftwood sculptures have since become…
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Australian Artist Creates Magnificent Sculptures Using Spanners Only
When John Piccoli was a young boy, polio left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Determined not to let that stop him, the Australian artist took up perhaps the most active art form: large-scale metalworking sculpture. He starts with a pile of old wrenches. To most people, this looks like junk.…
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Japanese Sculptor Turns Old Skateboards Into Beautiful Sculptures
Japanese skateboarder and self-taught sculptor Haroshi has creatively combined his two passions by creating striking and stylish pop-culture images out of the wood of trashed skateboards. The unique appearance of his sculptures is all thanks to the composition of the skateboards he uses, which are created from multiple layers of processed wood. These layers are…