contemporary sculpture slideshow
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Sculptures come in many forms, styles and mediums and are often mixed and multi-media. Sculpture often transcends between the artistic
categories of installation, textiles, ceramics, painting and more.
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Some artists transform an ordinary space or object in a sculpture/ installation
Roger Hiorns, Seizure, 2009
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In this work Roger Hiorns filled an abandoned flat with copper sulphate to create crystals.
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Rachel Whiteread forces the viewer to consider the negative space we occupy, but
often don’t think about. This work Unititled (stairs) 2001, is a cast of
the negative space of a staircase
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House, 1996This sculpture is a cast of the
inside of a house, it
causes the viewer to think
differently about the
negative space we occupy on a daily basis
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A typical scene can be transformed into a sculpture / installation like this room by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama
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Christo famously wrapped the German Parliament building, transforming it into a sculpture
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Mona Hartoum transformed this typical scene of a kitchen by running an electric current through
it, this is a political sculpture /installation.
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Jim Lambie transformed the space of the famous Tate Art Gallery into a sculpture/ installation with coloured sticky tape
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Claus Oldenburg made 3D pop art sculptures, he invented ‘soft sculptures’ in the 1960s, these were soft fabric sculptures of everyday items
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Sculpture doesn’t even have to be solid, Donald Judd used light to make sculpture
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Alexander Calder makes sculptures from wire and other found materials
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Calder used wire and
fabric to make a series of sculptures
based around the circus
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Calder also makes mobiles, these are an example of kinetic sculptures because they are are mobile/ moving
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Australian artist Robert Kippel
uses found material such as an old piano to
assemble sculptures, this assembling of
objects is called assemblage
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Thomas Lannigan Schmidt also works with found materials
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Thomas Lannigan Schmidt transforms rubbish into beautiful objects
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Another example of assemblage
using found materials (mostly from op-shop and junk shops) is this
work by Melbourne artist
Paul Yore
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Paul Yore also makes tapestries:
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Another artist who makes tapestries is British artist Grayson Perry
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Grayson Perry also makes ceramic sculptures
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Below are some soap carvings which mimic natural history exhibitions made by Australian artist Fiona Hall
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Ah Xian is an Australian Artist
who came to Australia from
China during the cultural revolution, he makes beautiful ceramic busts with traditional patterns
on them
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Fiona Hall uses a variety
of mixed media, here
she uses wire, tupperware and beading
to make a beautiful jelly
fish
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Sometimes performance, sculpture and photography intersect. If an ordinary
object can be transformed into a sculpture, so too can the body be a sight and instrument for sculpture. Janine Antoni made sculptures from
soap, lard and chocolate and gnawed, licked or washed them down until they
wore away.
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In this sculpture/ performance Janine Antoni gnawed at these 300kg blocks of lard and chocolate spitting it out
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Then Antoni used the
chocolate and lard she had
gnawed off to make
chocolate boxes and
lipstick cases
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Pip and Pop are Australian Artists who make entire fantastical words out of sugar, food dye
and found materials
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Melbourne fashion label Romance Was Born collaborated with Pip and Pop at their most recent fashion show
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Fashion can be considered as textile sculpture
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Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier made this leopard skin entirely out of beads
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This mermaid by JPG transcends the boundary between sculpture and fashion
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British artist Sheila Hicks uses wool to make massive sculptures by weaving and knitting wool
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Local Indigenous artist Lorraine Connelly-Northey makes sculptures from weaving