Wax sculpting workshop‘Sculpting The line’ 11th February Wax Sculpting with The Drawing Room and London Sculpture Workshop In this hands-on workshop, participants used wax sculpting to explore themes of the fantastical and grotesque inspired by Daniel Guzmán’s exhibition Chromosome Damage. The evening began with a short guided introduction at the Drawing Room by Mary Doyle, the exhibition curator .
In Chromosome Damage each of the thirty drawings represents a single, mainly female, figure baring teeth and pop out eyes, which goes through mystic and troubling metamorphosis – feet become tree trunks and serpents coil round them, limbs are extended and breasts and other features multiply. These works are made in pastel, charcoal, ink and acrylic on a thin, brown paper that is generally used to serve street food. The Drawing Room research facility exhibited all the books that inspired and were recommended by Guzman. London Sculpture Workshop director and artist Giles Corby tutored an introduction to wax sculpting techniques, including water and heating to explore the special properties of the medium.
Below paper dipped in wax left and liquid wax dripped into cold water.
The combination of Guzman’s use of street food wrappers (in my case, Giles lunch bag) and the artists inspiration gleaned from Willem De Kooning’s ‘Women’ were the basis for my paper wax woman.
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