Dereck Kinzett: The Guardian Angel

This is a sculpture by the contemporary artist Dereck Kinzett. The title of this sculpture is “Guardian Angel”. Kinzett use chicken wire to create his life size sculptures. He was born in 1966. Kinzett received his diploma in art and design in 1984. He spent his childhood living in Dodington Park, Gloucestershire. Kinzett’s work strongly draws your interest, is modest and natural. His work never about impressing people but pleasing himself and his customers. Derek Kinzett sculptures are usually purchased to be placed in homes or gardens around the world. Most of Kinzett’s sculptures is designed upon his customers’ requests. There are three words that most people describes Derek Kinzett’s sculptures as beautiful, stunning, and spiritual.

Kinzett sketches his design or uses a computer to convert photographs into lines drawings. Than he use those as a guide as he cuts molds from blocks of expanding foam with a carving knife. Next he wraps the wire around the mold about five time to add strength. Before removing the mold, they are sprayed with zinc to stop them from rusting and then with an acrylic aluminum spray to restore the
When a sculpture is three-dimensional it is not flat and can be measured in height, depth and width. Most three-dimensional sculptures has enough details they seem to be lifelike. It is a sculpture in-the-round. It is meant to be seen from all sides and is freestanding. The sculpture is an assemblage because it is a transformation of common materials (chicken wire) into art sculpture. Assemblage sculpture can be made out of anything organic or man-made. (Examples: scraps, wood, stones, wire and so much more). Just by looking at the fine details Kinzett put into his wire sculptures, you know that he has a lot of time (about a month to make each) and patience (he has to enjoy being a artist). Kinzetts chicken wire sculptures has made him rich; he get about $6,000 or more each