Sustainability sculpture

Pascale Marthine Tayou: Plastic Tree, 2010, Private collection http://www.pascalemarthinetayou.com/

Embedded within the eroded cement and marble pillars of artist Jamie North are a host of plants native to Australia. Kangaroo vines, Port Jackson figs, and kidney weeds wrap themselves around steel cables and grow from the crevices of the cracked stone forms, juxtaposing the industrial, human-made sculptures with organic elements. The lush greenery infusesContinue reading "Australian Plants Grow from the Crevices of Jamie North’s Living Sculptures"

Artist Stéphanie Kilgast (previously) envisions a vibrant, post-apocalyptic world overgrown with coral, fungi, and lush moss. Using cheap devices and disposable containers that tend to outlast their original function as her base, Kilgast creates painted-clay assemblages that are teeming with fantastical colors and texture: mushrooms sprout from an empty paint tube, sea creatures envelop a crushed can, and plant life cloaks a pair of headphones with whimsical botanicals. Each of the works…

A stunning paper mache table lamp handcrafted from recycled paper and glue to form a highly detailed illuminated mushroom.

Colombian artist Carols Bonil focuses his attention on ordinary utensils, creating the massive form of a fish skeleton using just white plastic forks.

ART: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan's Last Flight, 2009, used slippers and metal stand, 107.3 x 77.2 inches/275 x 198 cm | contemporary art | modern art | original artwork | Filipino art | Filipino artists

Upcycled Plastic Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts and Montery Bay Aquarium. From Trash to Fine Art: Upcycled Plastic turned into sculpture.

A broken CD isn't much good to anyone. Unless you're Sean Avery that is. Because while most of us would just throw them in the trash, the South Africa-born, Australia-based artist turns them into various dazzling animal sculptures. He makes them by gluing CD shards to wire mesh frames shaped like different animals, and as you can see from his iridescent animal kingdom, there seems to be no limit to the types of creatures he can create.

Katarzyna Kot-Bach, exhibition Batiment 4, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 12/11-06/12/2020 http://www.kotkart.lu/

Anselm Kiefer: “The Women of the Revolution (Die Frauen der Revolution)” (1992/2013), lead beds: dimensions variable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer