The prism sculptures by Ben Young
Today, we are almost closing the year and we continue discovering artists around the globe, those artists who with their ingenuity manage to capture the attention of even the most skeptical, some exhibit in galleries others in the streets for their dimensions, the important thing is the human being that creative being who has created a universal language to communicate with others, art. So this time I am honored to present a little art from the hand of Ben Young an artist born in Australia and raised in Waihi Beach, New Zealand. Ben, a self-taught enthusiast who has been making sculptures for the last 10 years, was for many years a surfer in Plenty Bay, that same place where he would be inspired years later by his excellent career as a sculptor.
Young apart from being a sculptor is a good boat builder, in art he found how to capture his adoration for the sea and the waves, his art contemplates and portrays its beginning and end, memories, places he visited all immortalized in his work. Some of these places are Mount Maunganui in New Zealand and Spain's main island. All worked on his favorite material, glass.
Young does not use any machine only tools and without electricity, which makes his works are very complex, draws each piece that is cut and assembled by beds, something served his skill as a boat craftsman.
In principle, everything begins with two-dimensional drawings to which little by little he finds the exact code to transfer it to a sculpture, bone in 3 dimensions. To work for capable it is extremely difficult to handle the glass which causes that constantly it has to replay as to continue doing the sculpture.
It is a feat to find sense to two-dimensional planes that evolve as sculptures, with the glass creates a liquid illusion that allows him to experiment with light and its behavior depending on the angles.
Nowadays it is extremely difficult to get artists to work two materials in the same work, without counting the technological advances available to most artists, this makes recurrent the use of large scaffolding for the dimensions of most modern works, also use tools that demand electricity, and in many cases the "sculptor" does not get to make but the script and sketch of how the work will be indicating to third parties how to make the manufacture and assembly of the pieces of art, this has taken some merit away from the solitary work that some artists such as Ben Young, who resists using electric tools for the realization of each of his pieces, where he only uses his hands and hand tools.
It is also no coincidence that this artist has chosen limestone and glass to make his works, a universal rule of a sculpture is the use of solid materials, so the most suitable materials to represent the transparency of the liquid, the sea, use glass, and to represent the earth use stone. Perhaps some may dare to catalog Young's sculptures from simple crafts, when in reality they are in the presence of the highest quality made only with hands and turned into pure and universal art.
His exhibitions are scattered in England, Australia and his favorite New Zealand, which offers a climate between tropical and temperate, perhaps the perfect ingredients to have ignited the creative spark of this great artist.
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Very nice art series. 👍 It reminds me of my art criticism classes in uni. :)
It’s so unique to use limestone and glass and to create all his works by hands and hand tools!
Yes! There are some surprising artists like him and I try to find them for my articles 😉
I have always been fascinated by it’s his art- thanks for show casing this really interesting artist. 🍀🌈🦋❤️🌴
Yes I try to select the most surprising artists 😉
Have a nice day my dear! 😘