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Sculptures by Polly Verity

Wire and Paper Creatures

stag surveys
stag surveys
Wire Sculpture: Royal Stag in wireframe
Wire Sculpture: Royal Stag in wireframe
wire and paper sculpture papercraft: Stag on Ice
wire and paper sculpture papercraft: Stag on Ice
wire sculpture: Jeremy Fisher
wire sculpture: Jeremy Fisher
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Beetle-winged Moondog
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Beetle-winged Moondog
Paper and Silver Wire Sculpture: Beetle-winged Moondog
Paper and Silver Wire Sculpture: Beetle-winged Moondog
Wire and Paper Sculpture: Gryphon
Wire and Paper Sculpture: Gryphon
Gryphon close
Gryphon close
Dodo
Dodo
Paper and Wire Sculpture: The Sharp-beaked hound of Zeus. Showing at Papershapers, Scion Installation, curated by Giant Robot
Paper and Wire Sculpture: The Sharp-beaked hound of Zeus. Showing at Papershapers, Scion Installation, curated by Giant Robot
Paper and Wire Sculpture: The Sharp-beaked hound of Zeus
Paper and Wire Sculpture: The Sharp-beaked hound of Zeus
Wire and Paper Sculpture: Psyche
Wire and Paper Sculpture: Psyche
Psyche
Psyche
panther emitting flames
panther emitting flames
panther sunset behind
panther sunset behind
panther full tree and base
panther full tree and base
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Pegasus
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Pegasus
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Pegasus
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Pegasus
wearable wireframe
wearable wireframe
wearable wireframe
wearable wireframe
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Melusina
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Melusina
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Sphinx
Paper and Wire Sculpture: Sphinx
Paper and Wire Sculpture: sphinx to go on show at Papershapers, Giant Robot, Scion Installation L.A.
Paper and Wire Sculpture: sphinx to go on show at Papershapers, Giant Robot, Scion Installation L.A.
wire cat
wire cat
wire cat
wire cat
wire sculpture with shaddow
wire sculpture with shaddow
wire sculpture, head with shaddow
wire sculpture, head with shaddow
wire head
wire head
wire head and his shadow
wire head and his shadow
wire telephone01
wire telephone01
snarlingmaskframe
snarlingmaskframe
wire sculpture snarling mask
wire sculpture snarling mask
Phoenix in the studio
Phoenix in the studio
wire sculpture: wire heels
wire sculpture: wire heels
Wire Sculpture: Wireframe Heels
Wire Sculpture: Wireframe Heels
wire cow leaping
wire cow leaping
Wire and Paper Sculpture: Cow Jumped Over the Moon
Wire and Paper Sculpture: Cow Jumped Over the Moon
over the moon  - South Nidry Street
over the moon - South Nidry Street
flatulent cow - Cowgate, Edinburgh
flatulent cow - Cowgate, Edinburgh
over the moon - head
over the moon - head
over the moon - front leap
over the moon - front leap
cowglass
cowglass

 

About the medium

Pure silver wire and a fine conservation grade paper is used. The wire is worked cold using pliers and held together by the tight wrapping of the wire around itself. An exoskeleton is created in the wire that is influenced by 3D wireframe computer modelling techniques. The idea being that each line created contains as much information about the creature as possible so that the amount of lines themselves may be kept to a minimum. If successful, when the paper is wet stretched taut over the frame, then the essence of the creature is captured in 3D. The paper captures the form and visually cuts out all the extraneous lines that are there in the wireframe. And yet the paper is hardly there, being so fine and translucent. It is a tissue paper, the type that is used for the restoration of antique books.

About the creatures

The creatures I create are mostly mythological and some entirely made up. In the past I have depicted existing animals but in the world of myth and fantasy, it is possible to create the life in the animal rather than try to capture it. Within mythological tales, what the creature represents is so important and so I try to inject a sensibility or feeling somehow.

About the creation process

I find that during the process of creating, there comes a point when the beast itself takes over (if I let it) and so I just allow myself to do its bidding. Usually this tipping point comes just after a real struggle with the work: brain-strain from trying to capture the whole work in my head in 3D; doubt and despondency that it will ever work or come to fruition in the way that I’d envisaged. So it never is how I envisage but hopefully it has taken on some life of its own.

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