Anna-Wili Highfield // Paper sculpture

Friday 23 July 2010

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I was sent Anna-Wili's website by a friend and straight away fell in love with her paper bird sculptures. They look so delicate but in the same way a feathered one does and the birds in flight are so beautifully sculpted they could jump right out from behind the screen!

She is a Sydney based artist working in paper and copper primarily. I asked her how these beautiful paper beings came to life and this was what she said:
I had been to art school and studied painting. After art school I took up sculpture and loved the freedom of not having had too much instruction in the discipline. I started making copper pipe sculptures. I was pregnant with my daughter and wanted to make something special for her. I made a small paper fairy wren. I loved the medium and just began to work with it. Now I use archival cotton paper that I tear and sew together to create the figure of an animal.
Anna-Willi-birds

There are many more great sculptures on her website... please do check them out! (the copper giraffe is amazing)

4 comments:

  1. Wow those are so pretty! Amazing work.
    ...im also envious of your blog name the daily smudge. its perfect for your profile!

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  2. i agree... amazing work! So glad you like the name too... it feels very at home here ;-) thanks for stopping by too. em x

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  3. The episode of Man Shops World (about the buyer for Anthropologie) where he goes to Australia features Anna-Wili, showing more of her amazing work and her studio which is *directly* under the flight path of the airport. She seems lovely and sweet and the work is just...killer...

    I found your blog only recently but its quickly becoming one of my favorites!

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  4. mixette - that show sounds great... wish I'd seen it (don't think it's been on in Oz?) And so glad you're liking the posts... thanks for your lovely words x

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Thankyou for your comments. emily x

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