Sam jinks biography

Sam jinks biography Art Collector Show all information related to Sam Jinks. Categories : 21st-century Australian sculptors births Living people. Equally, Jinks abandoned a process that involved 3D scanning and printing of his models, for the more intuitive method of modelling in clay, which he then casts and coats in silicone.

Sam JINKS

(born Bendigo, Australia)

The Australian artist Sam Jinks first worked as an illustrator and only learned about making sculptural works out of silicone and latex during a stint in the film industry. His hyperrealistic representations of the body, which he produces by means of clay casts and poured silicone, achieve an almost uncanny naturalism.

The fact that his figures use a scale less than , in addition to the delicacy of appearance of the skin he creates, reinforces the impression of vulnerability of his works. Like Ron Mueck, his work is concerned not only with the phases a life goes through, such as life and death, but also its transience.

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Kneeling woman
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Woman and child
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The deposition
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