Dec 18, 2009

New life in old junk : incredible art

Jeremy Mayer disassembles typewriters and then reassembles them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures. The American artist  has been interested in typewriters ever since he was a child. His childhood interest has now become an art form creating sculptures entirely out of typewriters.  When creating his sculptures he does not solder, weld or glue his pieces.





Johan Jonsson's sculptures are fascinating reuse examples combining raw industrial materials such as metal, wood and fabrics, tar and leather with welding filler, silicone, rust with items and materials used in agriculture and forestry.




The WEEE Man designed by Paul Bonomini, is a huge robotic figure made of the amount of electrical and electronic waste the average British person creates in their lifetime. His teeth are computer-mice, his  brains are filled with old computer hardware, and his eyes old washing machine doors.



Gabriel Dishaw gathers scrap metal and parts from old computers, typewriters, adding machines and the like and fuses them together into detailed sculptures of junk. He specializes in high end junk sculptures ranging from as small as a figurine to larger than six feet tall.




Ann P. Smith creates little robotic like figurines of animal and insect from broken electronics and machine parts. Smith's robots are sold in boutiques, displayed in galleries and used as illustrations in magazines and advertisements. Don’t miss the short animations with the horse sculptures in movement!



Mario Caicedo, an eco artist from Colombia, makes sculptures, props, toys, accessories, and other strange stuff, using ordinary, recycled and re-used material like deodorant tops, computer parts and anything that he finds in fleas market and the street.



Steve Oatway, an artist that is helping to make the world cleaner and more beautiful through sculpture. He creates works of art from junk which is environmentally friendly.


Rob Pettit collected more than 5000 cellphones to create art installations and to high light the proliferation and waste of cell phones.


"Geek's Palette" created by Sculptor Pierre I. Brunet in Packenham Ontario Canada.


Janet Cooper uses vintage bottle caps and tin cans, tobacco tags and other memorabilia items to create dress sculptures.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is amazing. I love what this guy is doing.