Clive Maddison is a British artist that twists and bends long strands of aluminum wire into beautiful tree sculptures. Each wire strand runs from the roots through to the leaves and has no additional wiring, glue or solder to secure them. The sculpture is completely self-supported and the trees can contain over 100 meters…
Alberto Seveso (featured previously) is an Italian artist currently based in Bristol, UK, specializing in illustration, graphic design and photography. In a series entitled Heavy Metals, Seveso continues to explore new fluids and forms combined with high-speed photography. In this series, Seveso combines various inks and metallic powders, dropping them into water and capturing…
Contemporary by Angela Li recently presented Li Hongbo’s solo exhibition – Shadow of Knives, a brand new series of metal sculpture and installation works by the Beijing-based artist. The initial concept of this metal series came to Li back in 2007, the same time as he developed his extremely successful expandable paper sculptures series,…
Puerto Rican street artist Bikismo just finished this amazing artwork for the RAW Project at Jose de Diego Middle School for Art Basel Miami. The chrome dog is 100% spray paint and took the talented artist about 4 days to complete. The distorted reflections of the surrounding environment are what impressed me most. What…
“Only nails, always different”, explains artist John Bisbee to American Craft (pg 45). For the last 30 years the artist has been exclusively welding nails together and for the last decade he has only worked with 12-inch ‘bright common spikes’, which are the largest and most commercially available nails. As an art student Bisbee…
Steve, a retired iron worker from Illinois, built this awesome backyard BBQ steam engine smoker over the course of three years. According to his son, “the fire box is from an old farm house wood stove and the wheel rims are from cut up fence posts. He built the water tank and whistles himself…
Thai artist Anchalee Saengtai has created an amazing series of Transformers sculptures from old, recycled car parts. The family run business started in 2002 and Anchalee and her family build custom, made-to-order scrap metal sculptures ranging from handheld to over 6 meters tall (20 ft), for clients around the world. In addition to Transformers…
Product designer Hilla Shamia combined molten aluminum with wood to create a fascinating series of furniture where the molten metal not only seeps into the porous wood but also slightly chars the points of contact between the two materials. You can see more images and process shots of the project on Hilla’s official website.…
Artist Robin Wight creates incredible stainless steel wire fairy sculptures that enchant any garden or outdoor area they grace. Based out of Staffordshire, England, the artist’s handmade sculptures are uniquely crafted to their environment. Wight was first inspired by an inexplicable encounter a few years back which he recalls on his website: “A couple…
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