This slideshow was created as a brief introduction to a Year 11 unit on Sculpture in Victoria Australia, it was designed to inspire further research and to encourage different ways of considering sculpture, it requires some editing

1. 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.

2. Some artists transform an ordinary space or
object in a sculpture/ installation
Roger Hiorns, Seizure, 2009

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

4. 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

5. House, 1996
This 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

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

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

8. Mona Hartoum transformed this typical scene of
a kitchen by running an electric current through
it, this is a political sculpture /installation.

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

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

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

12. Alexander Calder makes sculptures from wire
and other found materials

13. Calder used
wire and
fabric to make
a series of
sculptures
based around
the circus

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

16. Australian artist
Robert Kippel
uses found
material such as
an old piano to
assemble
sculptures, this
assembling of
objects is called
assemblage

17. Thomas Lannigan Schmidt also works
with found materials

18. Thomas Lannigan Schmidt transforms
rubbish into beautiful objects

19. Another example
of assemblage
using found
materials (mostly
from op-shop and
junk shops) is this
work by
Melbourne artist
Paul Yore

20. Paul Yore also makes tapestries:

21. Another artist who makes tapestries is
British artist Grayson Perry

22. Grayson Perry also makes ceramic sculptures

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

24. 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

26. Fiona Hall
uses a variety
of mixed
media, here
she uses wire,
tupperware
and beading
to make a
beautiful jelly
fish

27. 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.

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

30. Then Antoni
used the
chocolate and
lard she had
gnawed off to
make
chocolate
boxes and
lipstick cases

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

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

36. Fashion can be considered as textile
sculpture

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

38. This mermaid by JPG transcends the
boundary between sculpture and fashion

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

40. Local Indigenous artist Lorraine Connelly-
Northey makes sculptures from weaving