The Australian artist James Corbett, 46-year-old uses salvaged old car parts to create sculptures worth thousands of dollars. His sculptures are made of gears, spark plugs, exhaust, radiator, anything that the artist can achieve. After spending weeks dedicated to locate suitable pieces, James meticulously cleaned every part and welds them together.
He said: "I was working in a warehouse of scrap and type I know, that ran races stock cars, showed me a Trophy winner fact with levers of change." "I looked at it and I thought that I could do a much better job so I started making my own sculptures."
"On average, each piece takes a little over two weeks of work, but the larger pieces can take much longer”, he says.
Corbett lives in Ningi , Queensland , Australia with his wife Jodie.
James says that welding and the sculpture of the parts is not the part that consumes most time of the artist. "Often the longest part of the process is finding old parts suitable for sculpture."
He said: "I was working in a warehouse of scrap and type I know, that ran races stock cars, showed me a Trophy winner fact with levers of change." "I looked at it and I thought that I could do a much better job so I started making my own sculptures."
"On average, each piece takes a little over two weeks of work, but the larger pieces can take much longer”, he says.
Corbett lives in Ningi , Queensland , Australia with his wife Jodie.
James says that welding and the sculpture of the parts is not the part that consumes most time of the artist. "Often the longest part of the process is finding old parts suitable for sculpture."
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