Crochet Animal Skeletons by Caitlin T. McCormack

Philadelphia based artist Caitlin T. McCormack creates these eerie looking crochet animal skeletons using cotton string and glue.



"The act of stiffening intricately crocheted cotton string with glue produces material that is structurally similar to delicate bone tissue. The string implemented in this process can be viewed as the basic cellular unit of fabrication, and by utilizing media and practices inherited from my deceased relatives, I aim to generate emblems of my diminishing bloodline, embodied by each organism's skeletal remains."



"For a while the objects had sort of a totemic property and I wanted them to rematerialize my dead relatives."



"I’ve always been fascinated by entropy, and things disintegrating and then building back up into other forms. By using a material that wasn’t necessarily bio-matter inherited from a dead relative, I could reconstitute it in some other shape and, in some way, have them for a little bit longer."



McCormack work will be featured within Opus Hypnagogia: Sacred Spaces of the Visionary and Vernacular at The Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, New York which runs through October 15th.











Check her website: http://caitlintmccormack.com/

Crocheted Leaf by Susanna Bauer

Cornwall based artist Susanna Bauer created these leaf sculptures using dry and fragile leaves as a medium for crochet.



"I work with found natural objects. Leaves, stones, pieces of wood…ephemeral things, easily overlooked. And I use crochet; sometimes as embellishment, but mostly in a more unconventional way as a means of sculpture and construction."



"There is a fine balance in my work between fragility and strength; literally, when it comes to pulling a fine thread through a brittle leaf or thin dry piece of wood, but also in a wider context – the tenderness and tension in human connections, the transient yet enduring beauty of nature that can be found in the smallest detail, vulnerability and resilience that could be transferred to nature as a whole or the stories of individual beings."




















Check her exhibition at Lemon Street Gallery in Cornwall, England till 27th June.

If you like this kind of art, you might want to check the stitched leaves by Hillary Fayle here :)

Check her website: http://www.susannabauer.com/

Crochetdermy by Shauna Richardson

UK-based artist Shauna Richardson uses crochet to sculpt realistic life-size animals she called ‘Crochetdermy’.



"My work is entirely hands-on. I use the traditional craft of crochet in a not so traditional way and have developed my own freestyle technique which I use to respond to, and highlight, the anatomy of each piece as I go along. No two pieces are ever the same. It is meticulous work, typically using mohair yarn and a 3mm hook."

















Check her website: http://www.shaunarichardson.com/

Miniature Crochet by Su Ami

Su Ami is a family of five crafters from Vietnam who create these adorable miniature animals.





















Check the website: su-ami.blogspot.com/ and Etsy store

Crochet Sculptures by Joana Vasconcelos

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (previously here) wraps various animals in handmade cotton crochet and lace.



"The use of crochet in a paradoxical imprisonment/protection of the animals, thus relegated to the domestic context, opens up a vast and rich field of interpretation released by the beauty and strangeness generated by the result of the operation."



























Check her website: www.joanavasconcelos.com