About

Anish Kapoor’s Sky Mirror outside Nottingham Playhouse.
Sky Mirror brings reflections into the space outside Nottingham Playhouse.

Sculpture Guide is a place to explore sculpture and learn about the artists who make it. The focus is on the works themselves: their materials, forms, and the spaces around them.

The guide will grow to include more artists and a closer look at different sculpture techniques. Each profile introduces selected works with photographs and a short explanation. Artist and museum links provide a starting point for learning more, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s introduction to Maman.

What you’ll find

  • Artists: introductions to sculptors and selected works.
  • Materials: how surfaces, textures, and scale affect a sculpture.
  • Techniques: an area that will grow as more processes are explored.

Different approaches to sculpture

Jeff Koons’s flower-covered Puppy outside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Puppy uses living flowers to form the surface of a large terrier.
Louise Bourgeois’s Maman spider sculpture in Bilbao.
Maman changes the scale of a familiar creature.