Artist Anna-Wili Highfield Creates Magical Animal Sculptures from Paper
Posted By Ana Lisa Alperovich On February 16, 2012 @ 4:21 pm In Art,Recycling / Compost | No Comments
Pandas, horses, cows and plenty of birds are recreated as amazing paper sculptures by the hands of Sydney-based artist Anna-Wili Highfield [4]. The daughter of a puppeteer, Anna spent her childhood exposed to people making amazing creations. She now translates what she saw into her own incredible sculptures, using archival cotton paper [5], cotton thread, brass rods, watercolors and ink. Her countless hours of creative handiwork give way to ephemeral animals with just a slight rough edge.
The biodegradable paper animals are created from archival cotton paper [6] that is painted by hand and then sewn together to create the animal’s shape. Some figures use recyclable copper pipes to give them a sturdy frame, or in the case of birds, to give them movable wings.
Highfield works almost entirely by commission, and her commercial clients include Anthropologie [7] and Hermes [8].
Photo © Anna-Wili Highfield
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