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About Ferdi B Dick

I sculpt the roar you've been swallowing.

"Not lions specifically. Though there are a few of those. What I mean is the feeling you carry into a room and leave with. The one sitting in your chest that hasn't found a shape yet. My job is to give it one.

I use animals because they don't edit themselves. A lion's roar is total. A dog's joy is embarrassingly complete. I take that unfiltered honesty, freeze it in stainless steel or crystal, and put it somewhere it can't be ignored. On a collector's shelf. In the middle of a city. Either way, the work does the same thing. It stops you. It makes you exhale. It gives the feeling a place to live outside of you.

These aren't decorative objects and they're not monuments to animals. They are modern talismans. Built for people who carry too much and need something nearby that quietly says: you're allowed to let go.

I make them small enough to hold and large enough to stop traffic. But the size was never the point. The feeling always was.

I make sculpture that gives emotion a body. Each work begins with a specific emotional trigger, a moment, memory, or feeling that needs form. I use animals and symbolic characters as emotional avatars that can carry tension, release, humour, vulnerability, and presence. What interests me is never the creature alone, but the human state it can hold. The surface may be polished, but the feeling underneath is rarely settled. Drawing on my background in animation and digital sculpting, I create works that move between collector objects and public sculpture, designed to be felt before they are fully explained."

Bio:

Ferdi B Dick began his career as a 3D animator and later transitioned to creating physically crafted sculptures. Utilizing modern computational technology alongside classical lost-wax bronze and crystal casting techniques, he explores the innate movements and emotions of animals, giving them a voice through poses and postures.  Exploring emotional states through animated avatars.

His body of work includes diverse animal sculptures, such as a seven-piece collection of crying unicorns and bears, a growing collection of birds, dogs, and cats, and various other wildlife subjects. By using modern materials like stainless steel, Ferdi creates three-dimensional works with exaggerated features and forms, directly influenced by cartoons and animation. Initially working with bronze sculptures, he has since expanded into stainless steel and crystal to further develop his artistic expression.

Ferdi B Dick has exhibited in both national and international group exhibitions, including in South Africa, Belgium, Spain, China, and Taiwan. Notable highlights include showing at the Future Art Fair in Taipei, Taiwan, in January 2020.

He has also found success in the realm of public sculptures, completing his first large-scale public work in 2021, a 5 metre high ox kicking up a splash, followed by three large tiger sculptures in 2022 in China. In 2023, he completed a 7 metre inflatable rabbit for the city of Taiyuan. Recently, he completed a 9 metre high stylized whale with a water splash for the city of Zhanjiang, China, which is installed in a prime location in the new coastal CBD of Zhanjiang International Riverside. He is currently working on a second whale sculpture, which is in production for Thailand.

In 2021, Ferdi B Dick won the Bronze Award and the Most Market Value Award for his sculpture Lina Lion Dancer at the Zayton Cup International Design Competition in China.

Ferdi B Dick is originally from South Africa and is now based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, while his company, Ferdi B Dick Pte. Ltd., is headquartered in Singapore.

 

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Portfolio | Selected Works

Stainless steel sculpture

Crystal sculpture

Stone Sculpture

Bronze Sculpture

Wood Sculpture

Public Sculpture

 

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