Discarded Objects Transformed With Sculpted Flora and Fauna

I am in awe with the level of creativity of Stephanie Kilgast, a sculptor who sparks life into found objects by transforming them into masterpieces. Stephanie was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1985 and currently lives in Vannes, France.

Since 2017, she has been working on a series "Discarded Objects". The series is a collection of sculptures inspired by flora and fauna depicted in rainbow colors. The artist creates three dimensional owls, bears, penguins, birds, tigers, and other natural elements such as coral, mushrooms and plants, and combines them with discarded materials. Her sculptures celebrate "the beauty of nature in a dialogue with humanity, questioning the lost balance between human activities and nature."

Her artwork "has a cheerful post apocalyptic feel to it, a reassuring reminder that nature has the capacity to grow , back, if we only let it." The artist sculpts miniature animals that are emerging from man-made objects such as plastic bottles, ceramic jug, tin container, plate, and old cameras.

The artist's work has been exhibited all around the world, such as The Stockroom Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, Harmony Gallery, Shanghai, China, Art Number 23, London, UK, Baton Rouge Gallery, Louisiana, USA, Galerie Freisleben, Übersee, Deutschland, and Les Vivres de L’Art, Bordeaux, France. Kilgast has been honored with many awards. She was one of the 25 Sculpture Award Finalists of the Beautiful Bizarre Prize, 2019. Two of her sculptures – Ahoy! And Poison d’Art – were shortlisted for the Sunny Art Prize, 2018.