2. Elizabeth Berrien
In her teens, Elizabeth became
involved with the wolf
preservation effort when John
Harris, "Wolfman of Hayward,"
introduced her to his urban
wolf pack. Her favourites were
Clem and Jethro, ambassador
wolves John eventually took
on tour to school auditoriums
around the country. Because
of Clem and Jethro, a new
generation of nature
advocates came into existence.
Later, Berrien would become a
volunteer at the Oakland Zoo.
3.
4. Her encounters with cheetahs
were especially useful toward
making an accurate cheetah wire
sculpture for the Los Angeles Zoo.
When all the California Condors
were gathered in from the wild,
the zoo commissioned Berrien to
sit in blinds and study the
massive birds from life, then
create a California Condor wire
sculpture with 9 1/2 ft. wingspan
to soar over the zoo's entry.
When Berrien asked keepers to
critique her sculpture, they said it
was so accurate they could tell
which condor it was!
5. Yong Won Song
Korean artist Yong Won Song
creates life-size thread and
wire sculptures that look like
scribbled drawings come to
life. Somewhere between a
dream and a nightmare,
fantasy and reality, the artist's
pieces explore the unconscious
mind. Taking the perspective
of a writer merging real-life
experiences and creative
imagination, Song assembles
surreal sculptures that also lie
somewhere in between
realistic and artistic.
6.
7. The artist says, "My work
attempts to present ‘a world of
dream’ as a combination of
unconsciousness and
consciousness." His augmented
scenes visualize figures and
objects as fragmented subjects.
They are incomplete in their
presence, reflecting the haziness
of one's memories of their
dreams. Song's sculptures are
representations of unconscious,
scattered thoughts that one tries
to piece together in a lucid state.
8. pARlaiTin
pARlaiTin (par-LAY-in), is a
wire artist that makes
‘kicks’, shoes and sport
sneakers. He makes them
like this as when he was
younger he couldn’t afford
real shoes so he made his
own.
9.
10. With no design
background pARlaiTin,
and only an engineering
degree from school, he
knows wire and its
properties, to sculpting
with it was easier, than he
realised at first.
11. Shi Jindian
After searching for years
for “a material that was
brand new, completely
untraditional”, he settled
on steel wires. By trial and
error, he learned how to
crochet the two-
dimensional strands into
three-dimensional forms
using tools of his own
devising.
12.
13. His wire meshes start out as
wrappings around some
common object. When the
mesh is complete, Shi
Jindian destroys or extracts
the object, leaving only its
steel “shadow”. The result,
he says, is a kind of fiction, a
virtual reality that can be
walked around and touched.
14. Barbara Licha
Polish born artist Barbara
Licha’s recent sculptures
explore the physical and
emotional space of our
contemporary urban
environment. Here is a
world where human
emotion meets the
exaggeration of our
imaginations, the human
condition magnified by
dreams that linger and our
memory of the past.
15.
16. Barbara always goes for morbid,
while highlighting the cultural
diversity Rookwood is renowned
for. Sydney-based Barbara Licha
will have her wire sculptures on
display: “My work explores what
it means to be a human being
through the use of wire to show
different expressions, daily
activities, and interests that
portray movement and
behaviour,” she says, “Human
behaviour is something that I
always like to portray in my
scultpures.”
17. Ivan Lovatt
Ivan Lovatt is a professional
sculptor who has been
creating sculpture for private
collections, corporations and
public exhibition for the past 8
years. Ivan’s work is
characterized by his ingenuity
and innovation, which
motivates him to find new and
interesting ways to capture his
love of nature and his
fascination with humanity.
18.
19. By layering, twisting and
shaping this very ordinary
medium Ivan creates both
abstract and realistic
representations, which are
tactile, appealing to the viewer
to touch. As Ivan’s skills
developed and evolved he was
drawn to figurative work, and
Ivan began a series of portraits
of famous people which
candidly demonstrates his
superior level of craftsmanship
and attention to detail.
