Sculptures come in many forms, styles and mediums and are often mixed and multi-media. Sculpture often transcends between the artistic

categories of installation, textiles, ceramics, painting and more.

Some artists transform an ordinary space or object in a sculpture/ installation

Roger Hiorns, Seizure, 2009

In this work Roger Hiorns filled an abandoned flat with copper sulphate to create crystals.

Rachel Whiteread forces the viewer to consider the negative space we occupy, but

often don’t think about. This work Unititled (stairs) 2001, is a cast of

the negative space of a staircase

House, 1996This sculpture is a cast of the

inside of a house, it

causes the viewer to think

differently about the

negative space we occupy on a daily basis

A typical scene can be transformed into a sculpture / installation like this room by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama

Christo famously wrapped the German Parliament building, transforming it into a sculpture

Mona Hartoum transformed this typical scene of a kitchen by running an electric current through

it, this is a political sculpture /installation.

Jim Lambie transformed the space of the famous Tate Art Gallery into a sculpture/ installation with coloured sticky tape

Claus Oldenburg made 3D pop art sculptures, he invented ‘soft sculptures’ in the 1960s, these were soft fabric sculptures of everyday items

Sculpture doesn’t even have to be solid, Donald Judd used light to make sculpture

Alexander Calder makes sculptures from wire and other found materials

Calder used wire and

fabric to make a series of sculptures

based around the circus

Calder also makes mobiles, these are an example of kinetic sculptures because they are are mobile/ moving

Australian artist Robert Kippel

uses found material such as an old piano to

assemble sculptures, this assembling of

objects is called assemblage

Thomas Lannigan Schmidt also works with found materials

Thomas Lannigan Schmidt transforms rubbish into beautiful objects

Another example of assemblage

using found materials (mostly from op-shop and junk shops) is this

work by Melbourne artist

Paul Yore

Paul Yore also makes tapestries:

Another artist who makes tapestries is British artist Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry also makes ceramic sculptures

Below are some soap carvings which mimic natural history exhibitions made by Australian artist Fiona Hall

Ah Xian is an Australian Artist

who came to Australia from

China during the cultural revolution, he makes beautiful ceramic busts with traditional patterns

on them

Fiona Hall uses a variety

of mixed media, here

she uses wire, tupperware and beading

to make a beautiful jelly

fish

Sometimes performance, sculpture and photography intersect. If an ordinary

object can be transformed into a sculpture, so too can the body be a sight and instrument for sculpture. Janine Antoni made sculptures from

soap, lard and chocolate and gnawed, licked or washed them down until they

wore away.

In this sculpture/ performance Janine Antoni gnawed at these 300kg blocks of lard and chocolate spitting it out

Then Antoni used the

chocolate and lard she had

gnawed off to make

chocolate boxes and

lipstick cases

Pip and Pop are Australian Artists who make entire fantastical words out of sugar, food dye

and found materials

Melbourne fashion label Romance Was Born collaborated with Pip and Pop at their most recent fashion show

Fashion can be considered as textile sculpture

Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier made this leopard skin entirely out of beads

This mermaid by JPG transcends the boundary between sculpture and fashion

British artist Sheila Hicks uses wool to make massive sculptures by weaving and knitting wool

Local Indigenous artist Lorraine Connelly-Northey makes sculptures from weaving