utilising over 40 years of experience the wire sculptor Elizabeth
Berrien creates all manner of wildlife and constructs that appear frozen and
fragmented as though life itself was paused and stripped down to but a few
intertwining strands that twist and layer into her art. this document will be focusing
on the analysis of the art of Elizabeth Berrien as well as my personal
preferences and reasonings.
most often within the art world wire is used as a base that
is hidden behind other materials such as plaster, however Berrien chooses to
show the detail of the bare wire emphasising on how it layers and twists into
both two dimensional and three dimensional compositions that seemingly merge
perfectly into a space without making itself the centre but still drawing the
gaze, this for an artist is a great achievement to be subtle and bold simultaneously.
furthermore, it is not just the medium and subject that make her art desirable,
it is also the style in which she sculpts following the contour and muscular
structure of the wildlife and harsh lines of machinery like a design sculpted
on a modelling software.
the path that lead Elizabeth Berrien to creating sculpture stemmed
from both a love of wildlife and the well-known hardships of being a left-handed
artist, as well as the encouragement of others that guided her to her preferred
style. in her younger years, she expressed having difficulty in portraying her
creative ideals using pencil, however the use of crochet and other weaving
based activities proved to be far more satisfactory, however she later applied this
to wire and thus began to develop her art from there.
Personally, I am drawn to the three-dimensional Pegasus and
dragon, however this is mostly due to my bias as mythology and legend is one of
my favourite artistic themes, the skill and time put into each of these is also
another factor, using the wire to form the creatures to appear in movement.
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