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Anton Fagerås is a contemporary artist from Norway who creates beautiful white
pillows, that you’d probably think are made from fabric and cotton fillings. However,
his “fluffy” and “soft” pillow sculptures are, oddly enough, made from blocks
of white marble.
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Fagerås’ latest series named Down features a number of pillow sculptures that look so nice and cozy in spite of the fact they’re...
Knitting is complicated enough when you do it with threads.
Now imagine knitting with glass? Well as impossible as it seems, there is one
artist who does just that.
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Carol Milne is a sculptor from Seattle who makes astonishing
glass sculptures that resemble knitting works to the smallest details. Using a
variation of the wax casting process, Milne is able to create numerous...
Sculptor Chris Gilmour doesn't rely on expensive, heavy materials for his work. Rather, his realistic sculptures require cardboard and glue, making his artwork both unique as it is sustainable.
“One of the reasons I am attracted by cardboard is that, although it can be an expensive material, people fail to notice it and just throw it away when buying an...
San Francisco based artist, Alexis Arnold, creates stunning sculptures made of old, discarded books. Addressing the age-old question of materiality versus content, her Crystallized Book Series explores the palpable ways in which time shapes our cultural experiences.
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While the basis of her work is books, the creative process involves a natural process of crystallization, which is created using a...
Through her career, artist Lisa Stevens has experimented with many different media, both 2D and 3D until she found "the one."
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“I have found it very difficult
to focus on using one material, but after joining a ceramics evening class six
years ago, I decided that clay would be my material,” she wrote on her Etsy store and added that she...
One man's trash is another man's treasure – we've come upon this saying quite a lot. In today's society, where we tend to replace our worn-out possessions with new ones rather quickly, it's a pretty unusual act to give used items a second life and turn them into something completely different and extraordinary.
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Brian Mock is an American artist from...
Jeroen van Valkenburg is a 47-year-old Dutch painter and sculptor whose interest mainly lies in the religious and the mystical side of Viking culture. However, being disappointed with the ending of Game of Thrones and not finding the Night King very scary, he decided to create his own version.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B574kKepBZn/
“Being a professional artist I decided to bring my vision of...
Aurora Robson describes herself as an environmentally conscious artist, working predominantly with plastic debris. Known for her sculptures and installations made of repurposed plastic waste, she hopes to help restrict the flow of plastic into our oceans.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt4OJ8XFKBl/
A founding artist of Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers, and architects who also work extensively with plastic debris, Robson has...
Israeli sculptor Zemer Peled makes mesmerizing sculptures that are compiled from thousands of porcelain shards. They take after the organic shape and growth of flowers and corals. A process of deconstruction and reconstruction, her work aims to examine both the beauty and sheer brutality of the natural world.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B58U_naJOzj/
According to the Peled, her creative process is consistent with the...
Italian sculptor Edoardo Tresoldi describes himself as "the artist of the Absent Matter." A fit title when you see his colossal structures made entirely out of wire mesh. The transparency of mesh makes for an interesting effect - creating ghost-like structures that indeed seem to be made of a sort of absent matter.
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“I see in wire mesh poetics the depiction...
