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Work / Sculpture

Lilah Fowler

Words by Maya Davies, Monday 21 November 2011

Lilah Fowler’s been making a name for herself on the contemporary art scene and rightly so. She’s developed an intriguing visual language playing with perspective, puzzles, geometry and framing – structures balance in seemingly impossible scenarios. Fowler encourages a tension between objects and the way they relate to, or lightly rest on each other. It’s only frustrating that we’re viewing her work on a screen and not in person.

Work / Sculpture The unnerving felt heads of sculptor Paolo Del Toro

“If I’m going to watch a film, it’ll most likely to be a horror, probably a cheesy 80s horror,” says Paolo Del Toro. Becoming known internationally for his huge and rather unnerving felt heads, the British-born sculptor also references folk art and fairytales as his inspiration.

Jenny Brewer — 31 May 2017
Features / Sculpture Matthew Raw: the east London artist making clay great again

Ceramic artist Matthew Raw “got into clay” during his BA in Wood, Metal, Ceramics and Plastics at university of Brighton. “Growing up I was more interested in photography and graphic design, but had an instinctive draw towards three rather than two dimensions,” Matthew tells It’s Nice That. “It was the immediacy and variety of using my hands to shape clay that attracted me. It is such an expressive medium and I began to make work inspired by events and situations around me. Coupling this with a non-interest in functionality, and I guess that that’s how it’s panned out really.”

Bryony Stone — 18 April 2017
Work / Sculpture Mark Alsweiler’s charming wooden figures are created using found materials

Artist Mark Alsweiler creates folk-inspired figures out of salvaged materials and paints them in delicate pastel colours mixed in with punchy reds and blues. “I love old folk art and outsider art figures, so I was influenced by that type of naive work. Also I wanted to have a 3D element in one of my shows a few years back so reinterpreted the figures from my paintings into sculptures and they have grown from there,” explains Mark.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 06 March 2017
Work / Photography Wilfrid Wood's sculptures take a dip in collaborative project with photographer Stephen Lenthall

Photographer Stephen Lenthall and sculptor Wilfrid Wood have collaborated on a photographic series titled Swimmers, which brings Wilfrid’s expressive and energetic works into unforeseen environs packed with drama and ambience.

Jenny Brewer — 17 November 2016
Work / Product Design Sculpture: 3D artist Maiko Gubler produces a stunning range of coloured jewellery

Berlin-based artist Maiko Gubler can usually be found creating deceptively three-dimensional imagery utilising a mixture of 3D modelling software. She’s created glossy ceramic-like fruits for magazine covers, metallic fish for German club albums but now she’s actually making objects that exist in the real world. Her collection of Gradient Bangles are created from 3D-printed gypsum and uniquely coloured to create an extraordinary range of jewellery. Lovely stuff.

James Cartwright — 31 January 2014
Work / Art Sculpture: Rodan Kane Hart creates stunning geometric works of art

Rodan Kane Hart is a South African artist and graduate of the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town. Having only received his bachelors degree in 2011 he’s got a pretty impressive body of sculptures to his name already that broadly deal with the colonial origins of modern South Africa. Though I’d struggle to say that I appreciate the fine details of the concepts behind his practise, I’m incredibly impressed by his use of materials; the balance of industrial and natural substances and the interplay he creates between geometric forms and landscape. Definitely one to watch.

James Cartwright — 30 January 2014