Sculptures have a special presence that many other art forms don’t: they occupy space, cast shadows, and command attention from all angles. Here are six sculptors whose work helps develop your understanding of artistic practice.
atal jabbar @ather_jaber
Born in Rome to an Iraqi artist, Javert sculpts Carrara marble, the same material used by Michelangelo, but for a very different purpose. His appearance has been distorted, fragmented, and deliberately damaged. Jaber’s work, where the body is used as a metaphor for sociopolitical dynamics, tells a story of violence and the fragility of the human form.
heather persona net @heather.personett
Personet earned a master’s degree in sculpture from the New York Academy of Art and studied stone carving through a residency in Carrara, Italy. before building a career as a portrait sculptor in Brooklyn. She currently teaches at Lyme Academy of Arts. Her figurative works – frequently depicted heads and carefully placed figures – have a real psychological density.
Zoe Dufour @saypience
Trained at New York’s Grand Central Atelier, Dufour has completed an impressive list of large-scale public commissions, including a portrait sculpture for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and a bust for the University of California, Berkeley. Dufour has a special talent for capturing raw human expressions in three dimensions, such as the wrinkles on the forehead or the characteristic tension around the eyes in moments of sadness or longing. Her goal is to achieve a balance between “the physical and the philosophical, the formal and the conceptual” in her work.
Johnson Tsang @johnson tsang artist
Tsang, a Hong Kong-based sculptor best known for his porcelain works, fuses realist techniques with surrealist imagination to create human faces contorted into extreme expressions and bowls that appear to have liquefied edges. He was a police officer for more than 10 years before turning to pottery full-time, and says the darkness he encountered in the police force left an indelible mark on his creative perspective.
andrea blasic @andreblasichsculpture
Vlasic worked as a sculptor in the film industry for about 30 years. Created character maquettes for DreamWorks, Pixar, Disney, and Sony. Credits include: brave and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Born and educated in Milan, he draws inspiration from classical masters such as Michelangelo and Bernini, and his personal sculptures pay the same attention to form and weight.
Dawn Con @dawn sculpture
Conn is an Oxfordshire-based figurative sculptor known for his work in bronze and bronze resin, and has been selected as the only British sculptor for Sculpture by the Sea 2025 in Bondi Beach, Australia. She came to sculpture relatively late, discovering it after a period of considerable personal hardship, and completing nearly ten years of academic art education, including studies at Central Saint Martins.
Source: Our Culture – ourculturemag.com
