Video: Cash sculptures by Justine Smith
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As has been proven by many artists and sculptors, money can also be an excellent creative material, which is especially popular with the British. We have previously mentioned the British artist Adrian Firth, who creates beautiful realistic portraits of famous and famous people from penny coins, and the sculptor from London Justine Smith makes sculptures using paper bills.
A banknote is just a piece of paper, but the skillful hands and creative mind of the artist Justine Smith give birth to a whole world of amazing sculptures from them. An artist from London uses various banknotes to create sculptures of animals, various types of weapons, and also makes wonderful money bouquets that every girl will undoubtedly be happy to receive.
Justine Smith was born in Somerset in 1971 and now lives and works in London. She studied at the London School of Art. Her work is shown in museums and galleries not only in the UK, but also abroad, sculptures of the talented British woman are also in many private collections.
Her work is a study of our relationship to money in a political, moral and social sense. Her sculptures not only have an aesthetic purpose, they can also have a satirical meaning. For example, Justine Smith's satirical reaction to the introduction of the euro gave birth to a sculpture that features twelve dogs arranged in a circle and trying to grab one coin. Each dog is made from a different denomination of the twelve countries that have adopted the Euro.
A series of flower sculptures and weapons explores the idea of corruption and the influence of the power of money on the individual. The sculptures of weapons are made only from US dollars, the artist put into this the sense that money buys power, and that the United States, as the richest nation, has this power. Weapons are a symbol of power, control, violence, danger, war and death.
More works by sculptor from Great Britain Justine Smith can be found in the gallery.
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