Tessa Farmer’s Macabre Insect Art

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on August 29, 2007 at 2:52 am


How shall I describe Tessa Farmer’s artwork? Well, for one, she uses insects as a central part of her minuscule sculptures:

Tessa Farmer’s miniscule sculptures reinvigorate a belief in fairies: not the sweet Tinkerbell image in popular conscience, but a biological, entomological, macabre species translating pastoral fable into nightmarish lore. Constructed from bits of organic material, such as roots, leaves, and dead insects, each of Farmer’s figures stand barely 1 cm tall, their painstakingly intricate detail visible only through a magnifying glass.

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One comment to "Tessa Farmer’s Macabre Insect Art"

  1. Wayne Tully
    July 14th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    I like her artwork, it is really great, I wonder how this is achieved, with what medium, is it tiny sculptures on top of a real insect or is it computer generated images?

    I’ve gotten interested now, I shall go and seek her work out through Google!


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