Sophie Ryder – 3D Research

Gloucestershire born artist, Sophie Ryder, creates bronze and wire sculptures. Her subject matter is one of a fantastical and realistic realm, as she creates sculptures using animal and human features together. Her most famous creations are her human body and hare head sculptures and most of her sculptures are made with different gestures and poses – for different emotion.

Ryder likes when she can move around the sculpture and immerse herself in her work. So, with this, her works are of a large scale and most are done in a public space, as she likes to have a lot of space to work.

Johnson Tsang – 3D Research

Johnson Tsang is a Hong Kong born artist, who works ceramic sculptures. His works are mostly realist techniques, including surrealist imagination. Starting in 2002, Tsang decided to represent splashes in his ceramic works, later deciding to work with porcelain and stainless steel too.

Tsang’s ceramic works look very unique as he uses sometimes two faces and various human features to pull together and create different emotion. The ‘paint’ drips and splashes add to his work and give it movement. Tsang mainly creates the ceramic figure just from the neck up but, sometimes he makes some that are full body (baby-like figures).

3D Sample Pieces

These are my 3D samples that i made. The ones shown above are alginate that dried at the bottom of the bowls that it was mixed in. I thought they were quite interesting as they are smooth but on the flip-side, a different texture was made from the bits of dried alginate.

This is also my other 3D sample piece, which I had made by pressing different items into the clay. I tried making different shapes and textures within the clay. I then made walls of clay around the piece so I could proceed to pour alginate into the mould, and this is how it turned out.

Wire Pieces

These are my wire pieces that I made from floral wire so it was thinner and easier to mould for continuous line. I made these from twisting the wire to my continuous line drawings, from my book.

I like how these turned out as they are not an exact copy of my drawings. Also, I liked working with the wire with my continuous line as the outcome is quite nice.

 

Paper Sculptures

These are the sculptures of townscapes that I have made with paper and a Stanley knife. I have tried to incorporate different elements into the pieces, like the shapes and different textures. Also trying different angles to get contrasting shadows amongst my pictures/work.

In addition, in these last three, I wanted to add a bit more texture. Therefore, I curled strips of paper to add dimension and pulled some paper through a crimper to give the paper a corregated-like texture.

Artist Research – Paper

Maude White is a papercutting artist who lives in the Hudson Valley (New York). She loves delicacy and strength of paper and works on a macro, not forgetting to play with positive and negative space. Through her work she hopes she can show others the possibilities of crafting with paper.

You can see throughout these two pieces, her delicacy in her works and how time consuming the art form is. Her work has been featured in many news outlets and also film, showcasing her puppet designs. White grew up surrounded by theatre and books and both her mother and sister are puppeteers and toymakers and her father is an editor and writer.

Another artist named Jodi Harvey-Brown, creates art by making sculptures from the pages of old/second-hand books. She was hooked on this art form after exploring some old, used books in a second-hand shop. To protect and keep her work Harvey-Brown uses UV coat and sometimes extra wires for stability.

Artist Parth Kothekar is a papercutting artist from Ahmedabad (India). His artwork is based on aspects of reality, he gained inspiration for his work from experimenting with graffiti stencils. Much like Maude White, Kothekar works are delicate and works with negative and positive space.

Yulia Brodskaya is a Russian born papercutting artist who moved to the UK in 2004. After attending the University of Hertfordshire in 2016, she continued to explore and experiment with typography, paper, and highly detailed hand-made craft objects. Brodskaya has earnt an international reputation with her bright and unique works. Her special technique used to create her art form is something called ‘quilling’, which includes curling paper around a pen or pencil, which gives her work a 3D effect.