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Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist who worked on children’s television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as “Labyrinth,” a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.
Mueck started his own company in London, making models to be photographed for advertisements. In the early 1990s, still in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and was wondering what material would do the trick. Latex was the usual, but he wanted something harder, more precise. He stumbled on a some architectural decor in a boutique and figured out it was fiberglass resin. He has used it ever since. His art is fascinating. It reminds me of Duane Hansen's sculptures writ large. . .but with more painstaking detail. There are a lot of galleries of his work online:
James Cohan Gallery
Boy at the Venice Biennale
Australian Govt site showing Pregnant Woman.
Extensive gallery
Washington Post gallery
Russian website with good gallery
Ron Mueck images on Flickr
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