Gavin Worth

The man himself is a talented visual artist, designer, and sculptor well known for his original bendable wire and cut out paper creations. He was born in Zimbabwe, grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is currently teaching at the American International School of Cairo, Egypt.  Worth also lived in San Francisco for 8 years where he started his artistic trajectory working as an actor and musician for the Santa Fe Shakespeare Festival, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and the California Shakespeare Theater. Despite his successful career, Gavin Worth soon realized that Shakespeare was not his real passion. He confesses that he had always felt a great fascination for drawing, painting and sculpture since he first saw Michelangelo's 'Head of Leda' in a book in the library. Nevertheless, it was not until he visited an Alexander Calder exhibit at the SFMOMA that he became particularly interested in wire sculptures.
As Gavin Worth points out, almost from the beginning he toyed with the idea of creating a 3-D effect using bendable wire. As he knew right away that he didn't want to create a very realistic depiction of a 3-D form, he thought that it would be perhaps more interesting to create an abstract, almost organic shape made of grouped wire that would become an image when viewed from the right angle. In this way, far from being static, the sculptures would obtain a remarkable plasticity.

>> By bending black wire into something resembling freestanding line drawings, I create sculptures that engage the viewer by involving them in their subtle changes. When the light in the room shifts, so does the mood of the piece. A breeze might softly move an arm for example. My wire sculptures tell stories of simple human moments: a woman adjusting her hair, a face gazing from behind tightly wrapped arms, a mother gently cradling her baby. The honest, unguarded moments are those which I find to be the most beautiful.<<

Gavin Worth



I like the Gavin worth's art work because of he used the simple line and clearly line performance 3D effect , not too much modification . Clearly express the intention of the work. People can also easy to understand.