Tag: steampunk

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tomás Barceló Castelá

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Tomás Barceló Castelá is a French-Spanish sculptor whose unique work combines a classical style with 19th-century industrial steampunk-style elements to produce unique pieces.Based out of Cala Millor, Mallorca, Castelá casts steampunk-style figures that resemble ancient art while evoking otherworldly relics of an alternate reality.Using a combination of materials like resin, acrylics, and metallic paint, his sculptures are a combination of the future and the past, each one a unique and different character. Castelá strives to endow each piece with its own identity, while imagining them as fleshed-out characters starring in their own stories.  Looking quite fantastical and yet calling upon the classical tradition of sculpture of the ancient world,  his work has found a place in the modern world.“I believe that sculpture is the art of presence,” Castelá shares.“Sculpture shares space and time with the viewer, and that is what makes it so powerful. That’s why I don’t try so much to tell stories as I try to create powerful presences, each in its own way.”

More of  Tomás Barceló Castelá‘s wonderfully unique work can be found at https://tomasbarcelo.artstation.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/tomasbarcelocastela/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tom Banwell

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The beauty of art is in the making– the time and dedication put into each unique creation. That is what makes the work of Tom Banwell so fascinating.

Banwell is a leather worker, steampunk artist, and mask maker who creates handcrafted leather plague doctor masks, costumes, and accessories.Largely self-taught, Banwell was innovative in the way he learned to imitate bronze, marble and wood using resin.In 2008, he hit his stride in the discovery of leather mask-making, his passion and business to this day. He incorporates resin with his leatherwork, which adds to the richness of his masks.A plague doctor (Italian: medico della peste) was a special medical physician who treated those who had the plague. They were specifically hired by towns that had many victims in times of plague epidemics.In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some doctors wore beak-like masks which were filled with aromatic items to protect them from putrid air, which (according to the miasmatic theory of disease) was seen as the cause of infection. 

Thus the influence for Banwell’s steampunk-tinged hand-made masks and other works.More of Tom Banwell‘s extraordinary work can be found at http://tombanwell.com/ and https://www.etsy.com/shop/tombanwell/.