Placing sustainability at the core of his artistic practice, Josh Gluckstein captures the raw emotions of endangered animals through his life-sized animal sculptures. Enter Josh Gluckstein's home studio, and you'll find yourself transported into an extraordinary cardboard jungle, brimming with wildlife. Every corner is teeming with life, from sculptures of majestic lions surveying their kingdom to gentle giants like elephants, giraffes and orangutans.
And don't be startled if you spot a Galapagos tortoise ambling across the floor. While most artists stick to traditional mediums, social-media sensation Gluckstein instead sees beauty and potential in found and recycled materials. And one material, in particular, has captured his heart: cardboard.
"Cardboard comes from everywhere, so it's always manufactured in slightly different ways," he tells Euronews Culture. "It just feels like such a rich material, but it’s so available - really anyone could get their hands on it and play around.” For him, recycled materials have endless possibilities: "I could use corrugated cardboard to represent the flanges of an orangutan's face or wrinkled paper to capture the depth and the wisdom of an elephant's skin.
" Ever since childhood, Gluckstein has been passionate about two things: art and animals. With a foundation in traditional portraiture from studying at art school, Josh's artistic path took an unexpected turn when he began experimenting with recycled materials. "I would see things a.
