Category: wire sculpture

Looking Back Friday #3 — Wire Sculpture

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—Flashing back through my Sunday Evening Art Gallery blogs, I get a thrill every time I look — really look — at how other artists show their Creativity.

Every time I look I wonder: How do they do that? Where do they get their materials? What inspired them to go in that direction? And …

How Do They Do That?

I hope you are enjoying your trips back through the galleries. I hope you are telling friends and family to follow me and have their minds blown on real, live artists and their real, live creations.

This time around I’m going to share:  Wire Sculpture — a shortie but a goodie!

 

 

Elizabeth Berrien

 

Richard Stainthorp

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Juan Isasa

 

Robin Wight

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Robin Wight

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Robin Wight (-1960) is an English artist and sculptor from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.Wight is known for creating stainless steel wire sculptures which depict fairies.

To construct his ethereal sculptures, Wight first builds a sturdy skeleton out of thick steel wire.He then uses different gauges of wire to create muscles, limbs, and skin, wrapping them around the skeleton until they form a dense, lifelike form.Inside each figure lies a heart of stone, sometimes engraved with messages to make each piece unique and personalized.Each wire is carefully shaped and arranged to convey movement, emotion, and intricate details.The transparency of the medium adds a layer of complexity, allowing viewers to appreciate the interplay of light and shadow within the sculptures.In doing this, Wight hopes to “deliver a balance of the traditional childlike whimsicality with the aesthetic of a female form wrapped around an action type persona.”More of Robin Wight’s whimsical sculptures can be found at https://fantasywire.co.uk/

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Richard Stainthorp

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English artist Richard Stainthorp captures the beautiful energy and fluidity of the human body using wire.

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Wire is not automatically what one would consider as a ‘material’ for creating solid, three dimensional sculptures.

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But Stainthorp has been making wire sculptures since 1996.

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The life-sized sculptures feature both figures in motion and at rest, expressed in the form of large-gauged strands that are densely wrapped around and through one another.

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Stainthorp also allows the bent wires to shine by keeping their metallic appearance free from any obvious painting or additions.

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The breathtaking spirals add a depth to these structures made of thick-gauged strands that are densely wrapped around and through one another.

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More of Richard Stainthorp’s wonderful wire sculptures can be found at

http://www.stainthorp-sculpture.com/,   and  http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/richard-stainthorp-wire-sculptures

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Elizabeth Berrien

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When you think of wire, what do you think of?

 

Blue Heron in Flight

 Blue Heron in Flight

 Barbed wire? Electrical wire? Telephone wire?

 

Amaranth Arch

Amaranth Arch

Elizabeth Berrien has a totally different view of the world of wire. And the Art World couldn’t be more thrilled.

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Year of the Horse

Elizabeth Berrien is one of the world’s foremost wire sculptors. She pioneered her own form of textile-based, hand-twisted, non-traditional wire sculpture in 1968.

Owl spirit

Owl Spirit

Elizabeth Berrien’s wire sculptures are made “the hard way”. No gloves, no pliers, no chicken wire. Each sculpture starts by twisting together two or three strands. Then, one by one, dozens or even hundreds more strands of wire are spliced in.

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Elizabeth continually digs and delves into the world of her subjects – whether real, or imaginary. She taps into the soul of animals, bringing that spirit into this world to create this awe-inspiring wire art.

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Wall Art

You can find much more of Elizabeth Berrien’s museum quality wire sculptures at her website, wirelady.com.  Please pay her world a visit.