Patchwork Coats with Frayed Fur Add Shaggy Texture to Barbara Franc’s Dog Sculptures
Left: “Scottish Deerhound,” 66 x 80 x 20 centimeters. Proper: “The Haberdasher’s Canine,” 55 x 78 x 24 centimeters All photographs © Barbara Franc, shared with permission
Alongside an eccentric metallic menagerie, artist Barbara Franc stitches shaggy hounds with frayed fur and coats layered with assorted patches of prints. The material creatures are a part of Franc’s assortment of animals constructed with repurposed supplies that vary from buttons and classic tapestries to windshield wipers and cutlery. To create these mushy sculptures, she wraps scraps of worn trousers, curtains, and scarves round a padded, wire armature, defining a muscular hind leg with tweed or a abdomen with an embroidered fairytale scene. The tattered edges mimic a tousled tail and the perimeter sticking up from an ear, including lifelike texture to the canines.
In case you’re close to Towersey, Oxfordshire, this August, Franc is providing a five-day workshop on crafting the textile varieties at The Phoenix Studio. The West London-based artist can even have items this week on the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead Heath and in June at Westbury Arts. Yow will discover extra of her upcycled characters on her site and Instagram.
Element of “The Haberdasher’s Canine,” 55 x 78 x 24 centimeters
“The Haberdasher’s Canine,” 55 x 78 x 24 centimeters
“Entre le Chien et le Loup,” or “Twilight Hound,” 58 x 67 x 21 centimeters
“Shaggy Canine Story”
Element of “Shaggy Canine Story”
“Entre le Chien et le Loup,” or “Twilight Hound,” 58 x 67 x 21 centimeters
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