Sunday 4 March 2012

paper pulp and wire

Artist Gjertrud Hals, website link here, makes sculptures using wire, thread, paper pulp, flax, and other fibres.   I particularly like these heads, made from simple wire mesh frames, formed over plaster moulds, and then dated with layers of sprayed-on paper pulp.

Sculpture, series. Metal wire, paper pulp.
20 x 10, d 10 cm
Sculptures in wire, made onto a plaster mould of a young persons
face.  Image from her website, link above. 


The pulp must have been very thin, and using some good adhesive to make it adhere to the wire.  The technique is intriguing but the reslults are striking.  I wonder if I could even begin to replicate this method for some

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