# Jordan Sprigg Sculptor – Up Close and Personal - Link: https://www.jahroc.com.au/jordan-sprigg-sculptor-up-close-and-personal - Published: 2015-03-23T18:05:06+08:00 - Author: JahRoc Galleries JahRoc Galleries are very excited to introduce Jordan Sprigg’s sculptures to the gallery. In this feature Jordan has answered a series of questions that will give you an insite into what inspires him to create these amazing metal sculptures are full of character and life. ## Enjoy Getting to know…..Jordan Sprigg --- ### When did you first feel the desire to be artistic and realise you had talent? For as long as I can remember I loved to draw. I would have files and files of drawings of animals, monsters and machines spread throughout the house. Not to mention the obsession with lego. ### ![Jordan Sprigg Rooster](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jordan-Sprigg-Rooster.jpg "Jordan Sprigg Rooster") ### Where did you learn your art? I’m a self-taught artist. I would often head down the workshop during my school breaks and experiment with the welder and the endless amounts of scrap metal. My dad taught me how to use all the tools at a young age so I would spend hours experimenting with different ideas, generally being animal sculptures. I think you surprise yourself sometimes in what you can create and generally wont know until you try it. ### What inspires you most? The expansive animal kingdom. Especially the dangerous and powerful ones! ### What message are you sending to the viewer of your art? From afar I want each sculpture to capture the form, character and personality of that animal. From close inspection though it resembles an array of organised scrap metal each with its own personal history and purpose. I want the viewer to not only have an attachment to the animal but also create sentimental feelings towards the retired tools and parts. ### Describe your studio… A huge farm workshop with tools and parts surrounding the walls. Outside the shed lays tonnes of scrap metal all organised into categories. Surrounding that is farming land as far as the eye can see. How’s the serenity… ### Describe your typical day of creating art? Generally I get down to the workshop at around 8-8.30 and finish up in the evening. Usually getting a magnificent sunset to drive home with. I find inspiration can be fickle sometimes with some weeks it feels like you’ve done a days work, and then other days where you feel like you’ve done a weeks work. Ice coffee and loud music are essential in the workshop and always help to get the creative juices flowing. ### What mediums do you use and why? Scrap metal, retired tools and machine parts. I haven’t even touched the tip of the iceberg in terms of the variety of scrap metal out there which is exciting. From springs, gears, bearings, nuts, bolts, shovels, pliers, saws… the list is endless. When I first started making sculptures I just used scrap metal because it was all I had to use. But now I’m starting to appreciate the value that each piece has, and find great joy when viewers identify tools and parts that they have grown up and used themselves. I also love the rich brown textures that only rusted metal can give and the way that a simple angle grinder can take off decades of rust and bring it right back to its former glory. Jordan-Sprigg-Kangaroo-side ### What are you working on now? I have recently just finished a mother kangaroo and her joey with ideas of making a stallion or a wedge-tail eagle in the coming future. ### What do you love most about what you do? To be honest, to do what you love and calling it a job. I’ve never felt that sculpturing down the shed was ‘work’, so when Sunday night comes around I’m actually looking forward to the week to come. I often have sleepless nights of excitement when I come up with an idea and also once the sculpture has been released to the public. Having strangers stop you in the street and say that they appreciate your work is an unbelievable feeling and I feel so blessed that people find enjoyment out of my sculptures. ### Where can you see yourself in 10 years? Hopefully making more sculptures. My ideas seem to get bigger and more elaborate every sculpture. If I can have a balance between my other career pathway of psychology as well as creating sculptures I would be a very happy man. I think you surprise yourself sometimes in what you can create and generally won’t know until you try it! --- ## Jordan Sprigg Sculptures --- View gallery of unique sculptures made by Jordan Sprigg using recycled farm machinery and metals. All sculptures are sold * ![Jordan Sprigg Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/ 07/Jordan-Sprigg-Sculpture.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Bantam Metal Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2019/09/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Bantam-metal-sculpture.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Bantam Metal Sculpture 2](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2019/09/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Bantam-metal-sculpture-2.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Surfs Up Turtle Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2019/06/Jordan-Sprigg-Surfs-Up-Turtle-Sculpture.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Rain Bird Yellow Tail Cockatoo Sculpture](https://www.jahroc. com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Rain-Bird-Yellow-Tail-Cockatoo- sculpture.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Pelican Recycled Metal Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp- content/uploads/2019/04/Jordan-Sprigg-Pelican-Recycled-Metal-Sculpture.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Pelican 2 Recycled Metal Sculpturejpg](https://www.jahroc.com. au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jordan-Sprigg-Pelican-2-Recycled-Metal-Sculpturejpg. jpg) * ![Jsp21 Jordan Sprigg El Toro Bull 360cmx90cmx180cm 65000 Front 1](https://www. jahroc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/JSP21-Jordan-Sprigg-El-Toro-Bull-360cmx90cmx180cm- 65000-Front-1.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Australian Tree Frog Metal Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com. au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-Australian-Tree-Frog-metal-sculpture. jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Australian Tree Frog Metal Sculpture 3](https://www.jahroc.com. au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-Australian-Tree-Frog-metal-sculpture- 3.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Night Hunter Metal Sculpture 2](https://www.jahroc.com.au/ wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Night-Hunter-metal-sculpture-2-1024x694. jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Red Legged Grasshopper Metal Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com. au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-Red-Legged-Grasshopper-metal-sculpture. jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Hippocampus Metal Sculpture 4](https://www.jahroc.com.au/ wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Hippocampus-Metal-Sculpture-4.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Cockatoo Metal Sculpture3](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-Cockatoo-Metal-Sculpture3.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Veiled Cameleon Metal Sculpture4](https://www.jahroc.com. au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Veiled-Cameleon-Metal-Sculpture4. jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Veiled Cameleon Metal Sculpture2](https://www.jahroc.com. au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Veiled-Cameleon-Metal-Sculpture2. jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Sky Surfer Eagle Ray Metal Sculpture1](https://www.jahroc. com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Sky-Surfer-Eagle-Ray-Metal- Sculpture1.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Kraken Metal Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2017/09/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Kraken-Metal-Sculpture.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg King Of The Rock Sculpture 4](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2017/01/Jordan-Sprigg-King-Of-The-Rock-sculpture-4.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg King Of The Rock Sculpture 3](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2017/01/Jordan-Sprigg-King-Of-The-Rock-sculpture-3.jpg) * ![Jordan Spigg The Rose Rider 130 X 90 X 50c 2600](https://www.jahroc.com.au/ wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Jordan-Spigg-The-Rose-Rider-130-x-90-x-50c-2600.jpg) * ![Jordan Spigg The Rose Rider 4 130 X 90 X 50c 2600](https://www.jahroc.com.au/ wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Jordan-Spigg-The-Rose-Rider-4-130-x-90-x-50c-2600. jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Great Barracuda Side View 2 120x55x30cm 5900](https://www. jahroc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Great-Barracuda-Side- View-2-120x55x30cm-5900.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Iron Claw 2 80x70x45cm 4500](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2016/05/Jordan-Sprigg-Iron-Claw-2-80x70x45cm-4500-1024x676.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg With Red Thunder At Jahroc Galleries](https://www.jahroc.com. au/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Jordan-Sprigg-with-Red-Thunder-at-Jahroc-Galleries- 1024x799.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Red Thunder Horse Sculpture 2](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2015/09/Jordan-Sprigg-Red-Thunder-Horse-Sculpture-2-1024x683.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Red Thunder Horse Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/ uploads/2015/09/Jordan-Sprigg-Red-Thunder-Horse-Sculpture-1024x754.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg The Early Riser Rooster Metal Sculpture](https://www.jahroc.com. au/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Jordan-Sprigg-The-Early-Riser-Rooster-Metal-Sculpture. jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Kangaroo In The Field](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/03/Jordan-Sprigg-Kangaroo-in-the-field.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Kangaroo Side](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/ 03/Jordan-Sprigg-Kangaroo-side.jpg) * ![Jordan Sprigg Stag Delivery 19](https://www.jahroc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/03/Jordan-Sprigg-Stag-delivery-19.jpg) --- ### Currently we have no Jordan Sprigg Sculptures available for sale at ⏎ JahRoc Galleries. 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