Giant S/Steel Man Unity

Dreaming has always taken me away from drafting and into the future. Although it didn’t have a place at the time, this vision kept popping into my mind. Then standing in a scrap yard one day, the parts of my vision stood out like dog balls. Buying the scrap, I started work. I worked on him for the next two years in my spare time. He stands 7.5 meters high, weighing in at 800 kilos.

Captain finding his Mate

Unity 05 By Dave Thurston

Spider in mind

How did it come about? I was standing next to my workbench and this spider like shape landed at my feet, and died. Thinking of entering a sculpture show, this death at my feet took on another shape. Looking for parts, I started with the body - a street light. The head was part of a rotisserie, and the legs where back to back deck seats. The feet are part of a milk separator, adding the springs that hold your radio antenna. With a little workmanship and a diligent set off hands, she came alive. Watch out, if you see her about....

By Dave Thurston

S/Steel Giant Lady

Median in Love

She walked in to my life, like a rushing wave in a storm. A quick double take in my mind,
it was love at first sight. "Legs that waved at you, turned up tits". I felt weak, scrawny and shameful. "For what?" I think! For she now had a mate. This is how it happened, not a mistake. She showed me I could build her on my back. That day I had been in the scrap yard and saw two s/steel flues that became her tits. Adding the rest, we became BEST mates!

Median and Captain bounded in love

Unity 05 By Dave Thurston

The Old Cow

Where ever I go, I am always looking for interesting materials to sculpture with - the cheaper the better. On this day, I was out the back of a truck shed. I spotted an old trench digger chain and pulled it out. "What are you doing?" a voice asked. "Finding stuff for a sculpture" I said. Then holding up the dirty, rusty, broken chain I asked "Do you need this?" The man said "You can have it". (Thanks mate) The Old Cow was born......

The Stegosaurus By Dave Thurston

Breast Bow Tie and Head

Bow tie and bare tits suggest a sardonic centre fold page in a Playboy. I did notice that most men, and women, fondled her tits in the making...

Unity in the making, By Dave Thurston

Lady, Man and Family

This is a piece that I started some years ago. A friend Bob, thought we had the maddest work load you could ever imagine. For my birthday he brought me this Huon Pine burl, and a set of carving tools. So you could say this was my first attempt at carving timber. The burl on the other side is a hand, each finger is a figure that nests into the palm of his hand. In a move I lost his big toe.

Sculptured Letter Box

A Letter Box tells the outside world who you are. If it has taste and style you can almost say the inside will have the same inspiration and flair. Making a stylish letter box to suite the occupants is hard work, and sometimes you have to look around to find the right key piece to begin the sculpture...

Walking with Sprung

"Sprung" came about because I had to repair my trailer - the springs had rusted out. Using them for legs, a rusty chain became the back bone. With a head out of a hole digger, eyes cut from ochre, hand cutters for balls and a bolt for a dick, we end up with the wildest looking dog out of Walking with Dinosaurs.

Miss Maggy and head

After sailing the world, living in the Australian Bush is full of life - if you let them in...




















(May your cup stay full)

A hand comes alive holding a ball that represents the world that we all should think more about. We only have one world, one sun, one moon, and oneself.

Gas Burner Chainsaw Crocodiles

The Crock started with an old spring which I over laid with chain. Then, finding two old gas burners for a mouth, we had the Chainsaw Crocodile Pot...

By Dave Thurston