The Most Beautiful Steampunk Sculptures

Today, we have prepared for you a "small" anthology of sculptures 🗿, creations and steampunk objects! A multitude of different universes according to the artists, passing by the most zany.

Sculptures have really allowed steampunk to evolve and grow visually as a style. And if you want to know more, here is an article on the Definition and Origin of Steampunk. Without further ado, we'll let you discover all this immediately!

1) Steampunk Animals

1. Metal Horse

Metal Horse

Hasan Novrozi, a talented Iranian-trained sculptor, has created a wonderful collection of steampunk animal sculptures that are full of life and emotion, painstakingly assembled from thousands of metal tools, automotive components, and other scrap metal pieces.

In addition to this epic Metal Horse/Pegasus statue 🐎 he has also created other creatures in various styles, all of which are amazing. His more heavily welded animal sculptures remind us of sculptor Ellen Jewett and her magical animals. While his steampunk pegasus is inspired by the mechanical animal sculptures of Igor Verniy, another passionate steampunk artist.

Metal Horse

1. Mechanical Wolf

Andrew Chase is the creator of this beautiful Mechanical Wolf. After college, Andrew moved to Salt Lake City to work as a photographer, and soon after, he bought a welding tool, and enjoyed making and welding the new furniture in his studio.

He made a number of increasingly complex animal sculptures, but each one still bears the characteristic imprint of his early creations: heavy, and with deadly sharp edges. Thanks to the internet, his creations are sold all over the world and are particularly appreciated by the Belgians.

Mechanical Wolf

1. Metallic Bird

Born in 1972 in northern Minnesota, Jeremy Mayer is a true artist at heart. He dismantles typewriters, reassembles them and modifies them to make human figures or birds 🐦.

He does not weld, does not glue: the process is entirely a "cold" assembly. He does not introduce any parts that do not come from a typewriter. Nor does he use power tools, nor does he clean or paint the pieces. He leaves the patina of time ⏳ and the traces that the users of the machines have left.

He is a very instinctive designer, who loves the material. He uses absolutely everything: nuts, bolts, screws, pins, clamps, springs, etc...

As you can imagine, it takes a lot of time. He can spend over 1000 hours on a single sculpture.

Metal Bird

2) Steampunk Robots

1. Robot Sculpture

Robots 🤖 are a perfect subject for steampunk creation. And Mike Rivamonte, creator of the cute little robot on the left, understands this well: "Objects are very powerful and can evoke memories and experiences. They can be personal or collective and can be passed down from generation to generation or from one culture to another. I explore these relationships by presenting some viewers with objects that have passed through time and reconnecting others to memories of their past."

As for this robot on the right, it is part of the universe of Stéphane Halleux, a Belgian artist to whom we devoted a longer paragraph at the end of this article, with several of his sculptures.

Robot sculpture

1. Mechanical Elephant Nantes

The Machines de l'Île de Nantes is an artistic, tourist and cultural project 🎪. It is located in the covered buildings of the former shipyards of Nantes, which were used at one time for the construction of ships, and later as sites of activities. The Machines de l'Île is created by two artists, François Delarozière of the production company La Machine, and Pierre Orefice of the association Manaus. The projects aim to promote the image of the city and to build an identity as a metropolis that creates dreams and fantasy. The site was opened to the public on July 1, 2007.

The Great Elephant 🐘 (2007) is a mechanical elephant, 12 meters high, made from 45 tons of wood and steel. It can take up to 49 passengers for a 45-minute ride. It is an exact replica of the Royal de Luxe Sultan's elephant, which toured the world from 2005 to 2007. The main difference is that this elephant is designed to carry spectators.

3) Steampunk objects

1. Steampunk guitar

Musical instruments are obviously hijacked by a multitude of artists, to make absolutely unique steampunk objects. The most popular musical instrument for these creators: the guitar 🎸 !

On the left, a custom electric guitar by Martper Guitars Custom, a company dedicated to making and customizing electric guitars and electric basses.

And on the right, a creation by artist and designer Tony Cochran. His custom guitars, embellished with nailed and screwed leather and metal, are fully functional. His passion for design led him to make these beautiful objects.

Steampunk guitar

1. Steampunk Submarine

The Nautilus, Jules Verne's steampunk submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has been a great inspiration to artists and steampunk enthusiasts. On the left image, a creation of Arturas Tamasauskas, which we will discuss in more detail towards the end of this article, to show you several of these works.

In the image on the right, artist Rob Higgs built this sculpture, at Kimberley Park in the town of Falmouth, England. He defines himself as a mechanical sculptor, automaton maker and inventor of eccentric machines. He uses mostly salvaged materials such as old gears ⚙️ wheels, chains and scrap metal found on old farms and shipyards.

Steampunk Submarine

1. Steampunk Airship

Steampunk Airship

Airships are, along with clocks and gears, the icon of the steampunk universe. The airship above was created by Rich Plotczik. It reveals all its splendor when night falls, and only the lights inside the balloon shine.

Below, on the left image, we can contemplate the work of Jeroen van Kesteren. This flying machine has a little air of Miyazaki's Walking Castle, a film 🎬 discussed in our TOP 20 Best Steampunk Films.

And on the right of the picture, the Andromeda station, work of Ram Mallari, which we will discuss in another article, as his work is so gigantic. He brought a lot to Steampunk Art with his sculptures.

Steampunk Sculpture Airship

1. Steampunk Pen

Steampunk pens are a bit off topic, as they are not really "sculptures". However, we think they totally belong in this article, as their aesthetic is so close to sculpture.

So here are some pens ✒️ straight out of Victorian science fiction and the industrialized 19th century. Steampunk has reignited a love of vintage materials and objects. Mixing the vintage with the new, fusing the aesthetic and style of the Victorian era with the ease of use of modern technology. The pens on the left of the image were created by Magen Kening.

Steampunk pen

4) Steampunk Artists

1. Mitchell Grafton

Mitchell Grafton

Mitchell Grafton is a ceramic artist who creates unique sculptural art in Panama City. He began working for Odell Pottery while earning a degree in architecture.

Bruce Odell is a 3-time Olympic champion potter, and taught Mitchell everything he knew for seven years. Mitchell then moved to Panama City, Florida, where he started Round Tree Pottery. At its peak, this business sold pottery ⚱️ wholesale to more than 400 art galleries and gift stores nationwide. In 2009, Mitchell started his own fine art pottery business, Grafton Pottery, where he now creates one-of-a-kind works of art.

Mitchell Grafton Creations

1. Stéphane Halleux

Stéphane Halleux

Belgian sculptor Stéphane Halleux is best known for creating the character "Mr Hublot", who later became the hero of a short film. This film was awarded 🥇 in 2014 with the Oscar for best animated short film. He started his career as a colorist and modeler, in the field of animation. He later became the manager of a furniture store. Surrounded by old objects, this is how he got the desire to create.

We wanted to present you some of his creations in this article, because he is one of those artists with a very recognizable signature, a zany universe. Moreover, his works are impregnated with steampunk.

1. Arturas Tamasauskas

Arturas Tamasauskas

Arturas was born in 1963 in Anykščiai (Lithuania) in a family of teachers. He grew up accompanied by music 🎼 and arts. This prompted him to choose this artistic direction. He graduated from the Telšiai Technical School of Fine Arts in 1989 with a degree in applied art techniques, gaining artistic expertise in metal processing.

"A circle of time turns inexorably as if it were a well-oiled clock mechanism. All of us, no matter how hard we work, no matter how much we create, we love, dream or play our part in an endless representation of time of which we ourselves are the directors and actors, being part of this mechanism..." Arturas Tamasauskas.