Painting with sculpture

Japanese artist Shintaro Ohata has a unique characteristic style – he places sculptures in front of paintings and shows them as one work, a ...

Japanese photographer Yuichi Ikehata creates realistic sculptures of human body parts using clay, wire and paper. He then photographs the sculptures and merges them into unrealistic worlds to create Long Term Memory (LTM), an ongoing photographic series that “puts audiences in the ambivalent position of not knowing what is real and what is not.” The 40-year old artist currently lives and works in Chiba, Japan.

made of wood, the carved works showcase an encounter between the digital and analogue world, as well as a sense of movement and displacement.

painting, sculpture, diorama

oil on canvas, art, minimal, white, sculpture

This relief on canvas by our entrant Adriana Potkanska depicts a surreal tree with hands raising up amongst branches. A relief painting is carved, creating a “raised” two-dimensional surface on a canvas, which is then painted. This unique way of depicting art can show true thought and emotive language behind the work of the artist. Using sculpting as a way of portraying a 3D effect as the art protrudes off the canvas can give a whole new experience to this work.