Sculptors who use natural materials in their work.

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Sculptors who use natural materials in their work.
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Starting points

• Many sculptures use different starting
  points. Sally Matthews says Everyone has their
  own reasons for using animals in art, but for me
  I always go back to the animals themselves for
  inspiration. My love of them, their different
  form, movement, smell and nature are the reasons
  for my making them. Their nature, even of a
  domesticated or trained animal is unpredictable
  and wild, their presence is always enlivening. I
  want my work to remind people of our need for
  animals and the example their nature provides us
  with.

Deer hounds made from hay, mud and graphite.
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Sally Matthews

• Sally Matthew is based in Wales. She is a
  sculptor who often uses natural materials in her
  work. She says The materials I use such as
  coire fibre, cow muck, steel, copper, wood, all
  have a relevance to the subject I am making. They
  usually have a texture and colour that means no
  surface has to be added.

3 Ponies made from steel.
3 Ponies made from felted sheep wool.
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Serena de la Hey

• Serena de la Hey uses willow in sculptures.
• Having worked all over the world on a range
  of projects, she is best known for the Willow
  Man, a 12 metre sculpture next to the M5
  motorway, near Bridgwater in Somerset, UK.

Willow man 2001
Metaphors - 1993
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Robert Smithson

• Robert Smithson was one of the founders of
  the art form known as land art, and is most well
  known for the Sprial Jetty, 1970, located in the
  Great Salt Lake, Utah. This monumental earthwork
  was inspired in part when Smithson saw the Great
  Serpent Mound, a Pre-Columbian Indian monument in
  south western Ohio.
• Land art takes using natural materials to
  its extreme. Materials such as rocks sticks,
  soil, plants and so on are often used, and the
  works frequently exist in the open and are left
  to change and erode under natural conditions.
  Particularly large works are sometimes known as
  earthworks.

Spiral Jetty from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April
2005. Photograph by Soren Harward
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Henry Moore

• Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford,
  Yorkshire. His sculptures were abstract. That
  means that his sculptures often showed his ideas
  and feelings, rather than a clear figure or
  thing. His sculptures were often smooth, included
  empty hollows and were often carved out of stone
  or wood.

The arch (1969) is made out of bronze. It is
outside the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary
Art in Japan.
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Can you find out about any other sculptors that
use natural materials in their work?

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• The internet.
• Can you think of any other way we could find out
  about sculptors' that use natural materials to
  make their sculptures?