Video: Animals and birds from metal waste. "Garbage Art" by Barbara Franc
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Throwing away the trash and cleaning up is usually boring, albeit necessary. Therefore, creative people come up with how to diversify it, including their imagination at full capacity. Some paint portraits from trash, build installations, make insects from parts of broken household appliances. A British artist Barbara Franc creates cute animal and bird sculptures from wires, wire and recycled metal. These sculptures are aesthetically attractive and original, some can boast of a multi-colored, positive "skin" made of pieces of metal debris, but you better not know where the author of the project gets this rubbish from. Barbara Frank does not hide that she does not disdain to poke around in garbage cans and visit city dumps, doing this every time she goes for a walk with her dog. Found empty cans, broken household appliances and cheap jewelry, wires and wires, she willingly catches out of the total mass of waste, and then turns them into cute figurines from the animal world, both large and small.
Barbara Frank's second favorite hunting spot is sales and flea markets, where she can also find material for future sculptures. It is here that she acquires such parts that she needs safe and sound, for example, car wipers, arrows and gears of wrist and wall clocks, doorknobs and other household stuff. To give the "trash sculptures" a realistic form, the artist creates a wire frame, and then "dresses" it in pieces of the "wealth" found in the landfill.
By the way, these small sculptures cost a lot of money: collectors are willing to pay up to $ 3,000 for them. You can view Barbara Frank's portfolio on the Edinburgh Union Gallery website.
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