Sculptures

The beauty of scrap metal art lies in taking something old, breaking it down and totally transforming it into something completely new. Scrap metal pieces are currently being sold for thousands of Maria, pounds and dollar's making scrap artistry and sculpture highly lucrative. Many of our oshodi arts gallery artists enjoy using something widely considered ugly or unsightly, such as scrap metal, and forming it into something striking, bold, even beautiful.

As people become increasingly conscious of environmental impact, our sculpture artists are favouring more reusable materials, and this has also led to an increase in demand for recycled art. Scrap metal is a very eco-friendly medium for oshodi arts studio artists to work with as no new materials need to be produced to create the pieces. Similarly, the pieces can be completely recycled again afterwards.

From old bicycle chains to gutter pipes – the variety of shapes that can be salvaged from scrap metal lend themselves really well to creating pieces of art. Popular subjects for scrap sculpture are animals, insects and plants which create an incredible juxtaposition between the industrial look of the materials and the subject being depicted. Moulding the metal into flowing shapes and making something totally inanimate almost come to life using a material like scrap metal is particularly striking.

Wood carving has been extremely widely practiced, but survives much less well than the other main materials, being vulnerable to decay, insect damage, and fire. It therefore forms an important hidden element in the art history of many cultures.^[3] Outdoor wood sculpture does not last long in most parts of the world, so that we have little idea how the totem pole tradition developed. Many of the most important sculptures of China and Japan in particular are in wood, and the great majority of African sculpture and that of Oceania and other regions.

Wood is light, so suitable for masks and other sculpture intended to be carried, and can take very fine detail. It is also much easier to work than stone. It has been very often painted after carving, but the paint wears less well than the wood, and is often missing in surviving pieces. Painted wood is often technically described as "wood and polychrome". Typically a layer of gesso or plaster is applied to the wood, and then the paint is applied to that

Stone sculpture is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, evidence can be found that even the earliest societies indulged in some form of stone work, though not all areas of the world have such abundance of good stone for carving as Egypt, Greece, India and most of Europe. Petroglyphs (also called rock engravings) are perhaps the earliest form: images created by removing part of a rock surface which remains in situ, by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Monumental sculpture covers large works, and architectural sculpture, which is attached to buildings