Oversized sculptures of mould-covered fruit – their encroaching fungal growth simulated with translucent precious and semi-precious stones (like malachite, opal and smoky quartz) pinned to painted foam forms by artist Kathleen Ryan.
More of her work here.
Wooden sculptures by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Kanemaki
The eyes follow you around the room, etc.
Previously: A Well Rounded Woman
The elaborately decorated animal/plant fusions of Canadian sculptor (and former student of animal behavioural science) Ellen Jewett.
Currently exhibiting at the Urban Nation Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin, if you’re passing.
A vast bird sculpture sprawls on a mountaintop at the 65 acre environmental tourist destination of Jatayu Earth’s Centre at Kerala in India. The centre is a collaboration between the Tourism Department of Kerala and film director Rajiv Anchal. The bird is the stuff of legend.To wit:
Based on the epic story of Ramayana, Jatayu is a noble bird of divine origin who lost his wing and fell while fighting to protect a young woman named Sitha. The bird as recreated in concrete at the Center is 200 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 70 feet tall, with stylized feathers and enormous curled claws.
The art of ‘book sculptor’ Emma Taylor, who tells new stories with old books rescued from charity and second hand shops.
Using only glue, scissors and the pages of the books she carves, Taylor also themes her sculptures in keeping with the subject matter of the books they’re made from, ie. a garden scene emerging from ‘An Introduction to Botany’ and Italian houses hewn from ‘The Story of Venice’.
Thousands of stainless steel razor blades welded and linked together to form clothes, shoes and other pleasingly hazardous objects by Bangladeshi artist Tayeba Begum Lipi.
The detailed borosilicate glass sculptures of Simone Crestani – each one imitating ‘imperfect’ organic forms like twisted bonsai trees or lopsided coral.
New pictures of Kiwi sculptor David McCracken’s 12m long “Diminish And Ascend: at Bondi Beach, Sydney (top 3), Connells Bay, Waiheke Island (4,5,6) and Christchurch Botanic Gardens in New Zealand (7,8).
Previously: Infinite Staircase
