Chicken wire art

I received this email today, and found it rather interesting, so I'm sharing it here. Enjoy.

CHICKEN WIRE SCULPTURE by Ivan Lovatt

Born in Nairobi , Kenya , Ivan spent his childhood in Africa, England , Wales and Germany . When not outside enjoying the natural environment, Ivan was drawn to all forms of artistic expression, and began drawing birds and African wildlife. As an adult, Ivan worked mostly in construction, but art was always an important part of his life. Ivan would spend all of his spare time learning about art, experimenting and trying to explore each medium to its potential. Ivan exhibited his sculpture and paintings in group exhibitions at the Guildhall Grantham, before emigrating to Australia in 1994. He now lives in the Gold Coast Hinterland. 

Artist Ivan Lovatt makes remarkably lifelike sculptures of famous folks, icons and wildlife out of poultry chicken wire. 

 

  MICHAEL JACKSON

 King of Pop in Chicken wire

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Here, the father of relativity is lovingly rendered in chicken wire. 

  

 

 

SIR EDMUND HILLARY

What better way to honor the fabled New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and environmental champion than to recreate his likeness in wire fencing?

   

GRACE JONES

Has posed for fashion magazines, recorded hit records and even battled James Bond,but here she is immortalised in the finest of sturdy barnyard materials for posterity.

DAME EDNA EVERAGE

Australian comedian Barry Humphries’ beloved character, Dame Edna Everage.

Perhaps her boa includes some actual chicken feathers.

 

JIMI HENDRIX

The fleet-fingered guitar legend finally gets his posthumous due as a chicken wire sculpture.

  

 

MICK JAGGER

The mouthpiece of the Rolling Stones may have been knighted in 2003, but you know you've really made your stamp on the world when someone sculpts your face out of chicken wire.

 JOHN LENNON

As one quarter of the Beatles, John Lennon inspired a generation and helped define rock n roll as we know it. Its fitting, then, that he should be canonized in chicken wire.

 

 Depicted during their Sgt. Pepper era, the Fab Four is captured in all their epauletted, facially hirsute glory.

BOB DYLAN

Having introduced both profound poetry and a keen social conscience to rock n roll in the 1960s, Bob Dylan gets the Lovatt treatment, looking suitably cool and wiry.

WINGS OF WIRE

Who said chicken wire was just for poultry and … ER… celebrity depictions? 

Here, Lovatt presents a sculpture dubbed, The Eagle.

 A clucking masterpiece 

Twelve slides in and whats this? Yes, its a chicken made of chicken wire.

Who saw that coming?

 

A meshy, metallic marsupial.

Here, Lovatt creates a cuddly koala, clinging tenaciously to a tree.

 Exceptional imagination AND execution!