Anyone without a body = no body = skeleton...
Hilarious, beautiful and at times haunting, these sculptures are leaving the experts stunned with their extraordinary detail. See where your imagination will fly as you explore the technical and artistic mastery of the Sjöling life size skeletons.
No-Body thought it would come to this
Rodins thinker with a twist. The chair too is solid bronze.
No-Body thought it would come to this detail
Detail of the chair. A ridiculous amount of work. Again, the genius is in the detail. There is no visible evidence anywhere of any welding - pinning or riveting.
No-Body's perfect
No-Body likes a bit of the blues
Life size museum grade solid bronze skeleton playing fully restored 1915 pro sax (detail view). Nobody likes being depressed, something so synonymous with modern life. Our nobody gets through this with a blast of jazzy blues.
Greed, from the 7 Deadly Sins series
Skeleton hand clutching gold (plated) bullion bar mounted on a stone base. Life size solid bronze fine art.
Sloth, from the 7 Deadly Sins series
Silver plated skeleton hand. Life size solid bronze fine art.
No-Body does it better
Leonardo Da Vinci's wonderful Vitruvian man given the skeleton treatment. Dismantles into 5 sections. 100kg - 220lb of solid bronze within a stainless steel frame.
Welding it all together in the kitchen/dining room
Most of the work gets done in our garden shed, however this one was too big, so it had to be done indoors. Luckily Tig welding doesn't spit too much!
Gone to pot
Very large lobster. 10kg assembled from 36 individual pieces. Antenna and small front flagella come off for transport and maintainability. (there is also a forward pointing set of antenna included).
Holding on
Surgical grade stainless steel hand clutching war relic barbed wire. Life sized.
No-Body cares about life
Our first full size skeleton. I designed it to be kneeling as the mechanics of the sculpture make it fragile. Being solid bronze it is very heavy, so ankle and knee joints are under an awful amount of stress, and bronze is not the strongest material. The joints are all small compared to a 'fleshed / clothed' sculpture of similar size. In time I developed a technique that allowed the use of big stainless rods inside the joints. The trick is to make them utterly invisible.
Head shot... (No-Body cares about life)
Inspired from No-Body cares about life, this extraordinary piece is half bronze on a stainless steel mirror, a sort of bronze hologram.
Your war is over
This is our very first casting. The foundry were so sceptical as to whether it would cast correctly that they did it for free, just to see if it was possible. When I turned up with my wax components, the technical director of the foundry asked if I would be their official rapid prototyping sub contractor. Cast in 7 sections, I welded it all together and the result is perfect! The gun is the remains of a German Mg34 that I found in Normandy, easily identifiable by the double trigger and distinctive grip.