Description
‘Fire Coral’ by Stéphanie Kilgast
Artist: Stéphanie Kilgast
Title: ‘Fire Coral’
Medium: Mixed media sculpture on plastic bottle
Dimensions: 7″ x 6″ x 3″
Framing: N/A
Year of Creation: 2024
Artwork Will Ship From: France
About the Artwork:
“Over the years, I have put aside trash to include in my work to question our environmental impact. This year I am working on a new series of plastic bottles which I painted with jewel-like metallic paints.
This specific teal colored one made me think of the ocean, which became its theme. I started to sculpt the fire coral and since I wanted orange as the complimentary color to this dark turquoise bottle, I created miniature clown fishes to populate this environment.” – Stéphanie Kilgast
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast’s artwork is an ode to nature and its current biodiversity. Plants, mushrooms, insects and other animals encounter in a vibrant swirl of colors under her brush or sculpting tools.
Since 2017, in her series “Discarded Objects”, she grows colorful organic sculptures on manufactured objects, celebrating the beauty of nature in a dialogue with humanity, questioning the lost balance between human activities and nature.
Her work has a cheerful post apocalyptic feel to it, a reassuring reminder that nature has the capacity to grow back, if we only let it.
Her work has been exhibited in North America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
French, born in 1985, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, currently resides in Vannes, France.