Soft sculpture
Gürze and Dash, two soft sculpture dolls
Soft sculpture is a type of sculpture made using cloth, foam rubber, plastic, paper, fibres and similar material that are supple and nonrigid.
They can also be made out of natural materials if combined to make a nonrigid object.
Soft sculpture is very popular in Japan with artists like Yayoi Kusama boosting the heritages of this new and innovative medium for interior designers.
Popularised in the 1960s by artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Yayoi Kusama, the following is a list of selected artists who have worked with soft sculpture:
- Jeannie Martin
- Katie Gardenia
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Lynda Benglis
- Louise Bourgeois
- Isabelle de Borchgrave
- Joseph Beuys
- Jann Haworth
- Eva Hesse
- Mark Jenkins
- Annette Messager
- Robert Morris
- Rosslyn Piggot
- Susan Mohl Powers
- Faith Ringgold
- Richard Serra
- Michelle Stewart
- Marjorie Strider
- Lucy Sparrow
- Joel Jones
- Daniel Richard
- Dylan Jones
External links
http://www.nga.gov.au/EXHIBITION/softsculpture/
- Blick Art Materials Lesson Plan about soft sculpture
- An Exhibition (SoftSculpture) at the National Gallery of Australia - 24 April – 12 July 2009
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