Artist Research.

Casting artists

There are many influential contemporary and historical sculpture artists that approach the subject of 'sculpture' in various ways whether it be experimenting with materials similar to clay and plaster or whether they use their surroundings and found objects in their work.

Rachel Whiteread is an British contemporary artist whose sculptures primarily take the form of casts. Whiteread was born in London in 1963 and studied painting at Brighton polytechnic before studying sculpture at Slade school of art. Whiteread is one of the few artists of her generation to produce prolific and significant public sculptures some of which has received monumental status. She uses the negative space around found objects and fills it with plaster creating a representation of the object behind, Ghost her breakthrough piece in 1990 is a plaster cast of a living room modelled on a typical Victorian terrace house in North London. 

Ghost, 1990

Richard Artschwager was an American painter and sculptor who endured a celebrated career as an artist. As an artist he defied categorisation associating himself at different times of his career with many art movements including Pop, Optical, Minimalist and Conceptual art. Artschwager was renowned for his painting and sculpture but the 'blip' (BLPS's 1967-) were a conceptual high note of his career, they were birthed in California in the late 1960's and were nothing more than a lozenge shaped film or block which created a focal point within the area in which it was placed in turn allowing the viewer to see the world around.