sculpture...lots of pics

[gavuk]

This is taken from an email i recieved this morning

quote:
46-year-old Australian artist James Corbett creates these
sculptures using salvaged old car parts One of the pieces, a ram made of spark plugs, sold for a whopping $23,000 His sculptures are made of gears, spark plugs, exhausts,radiators, anything that the artist can obtain.

After spending weeks locating suitable pieces, James
meticulously cleans every part and welds them together."After a period of time, people began to become more and more interested in what I was doing, and now what do is my dream come true."

On average, each piece takes a little over two weeks of
work, but the larger pieces can take much longer, he says.
Corbett lives in Ningi, Queensland, Australia with his wife
Jodie.
Older French and British cars are James? favorites.James says that welding the pieces together is not the part that consumes the most time. "Often the longest part of the process is finding old parts suitable for sculpture." "My two favorite pieces I've created for this exhibition are
the ram and the wild boar”, he says. :quote

Photos here, here and here

 

[Wayne.]

Now that is fantastic

 

[gordon stephenson]

Thanks for sharing, Very ingenious, He certainly has a great imagination, pieces convey movement and don't just appear to be a collection of old parts, Particularly loved the "Lady with dog on lead" so lifelike,

 

[Wozzaaah]

Incredible stuff!

 

[gavuk]

when i look at a spark plug i see a spark plug .....I agree Gordon the movement portrayed in the car with the passenger leaning and the dog dragging the lady are especially good ,obviously he would improve his welding if he were to join here

 

[Coo]

excellent !

 

[TechnicAl]

when i look at a spark plug i see a spark plug .....I agree Gordon the movement portrayed in the car with the passenger leaning and the dog dragging the lady are especially good ,obviously he would improve his welding if he were to join here

When I see a spark plug I see another bill

These are absolutely fantastic........how he sees the sculpture in these bits is astonishing

mind you he doesnt know much about welding........you should never wear a tie

 

[chunkolini]

Hmm in two minds.
Scrap metal sculpture has been done to death, eg the hideous Alien Predator sculptures from Thailand. There is so much bad a mediocre stuff out there it instantly debases the good stuff.
This stuff is loads better, but still does not completely rock my boat. I do admit to loving the wild boar though, I think maybe seeing one piece on it's own works best.

I do admire the guys eye for what goes where and how to string it all together, I also wonder where and how you keep control of the materials for making this kind of stuff, that boggles my mind.

Somebody shoud contact him via his website and invite him aboard. From my experience artists are quite open to this kind of invite.

Chunko'.

 

[pidgeon chit welder]

Good stuff , he must surely have an army of people cleaning and polishing the parts before he welds them up .. that's some serious time used up from your birth certificate if you do it yourself.