How many mobile phone sculptures do you think have been erected around the world? The number is higher than you might think. The mobile phone is an icon of modern culture. It represents change and communication in this society. Artists working in all mediums have used it as a subject for self-expression and making social statements. Sculptors are no exception. We’ve already seen a few examples of mobile phone sculptures in our previous posts which featured three dozen examples of stunning mobile phone art. Let’s take a look at twelve more interesting mobile phone sculptures:

Mobile Phone Sandcastle. We’ve seen a sand structure shaped like a mobile phone before. However this one is even more interesting. It is an intricately built sand sculpture of a castle or building. Then there is also a detailed sand sculpture of a hand holding a mobile phone that is capturing a photo of the sandcastle (which is drawn into the sand on the screen of the sand phone). Very detailed. Very cool. And so unfortunate that this kind of mobile phone sculpture has to remain temporary!

BlackBerry Ice Sculpture. Another type of sculpture that is only temporary, the ice sculpture or snow sculpture. That doesn’t mean that it fails to impress though. Just take a look at this ice sculpture of a highly detailed (and quite accurate) BlackBerry phone that was featured at the Winterlude festival in Ottawa. This may be mobile phone advertising but it’s also mobile phone art.

Martin Dolan’s Telstra Phones. Telstra, the Australian phone carrier, commissioned an artist to do a really cool futuristic, steampunk mobile phone sculpture. It was built entirely from found objects, including tools and screws. It was designed to be interactive in that the flip part of the flip phone could actually be moved. This is found art at its best and a really interesting example of mobile phone sculptures.

Dead Paris Hilton with Cell Phone. Daniel Edwards is an artist who has caused a lot of controversy with his sculptures of famous women. One of those sculptures was a sculpture of Paris Hilton, nude, ostensibly having died from a drink driving accident. She is clutching a mobile phone in her hand which has a few levels of meaning. On one hand, it’s just there because Hilton always has a phone in hand. However, since we know that driving on the phone is as dangerous as driving while drunk it seems like there’s a deeper meaning within this sculptural piece.

Russian Doll Mobile Phones. Kyle Bean is an artist who created an interesting sculptural piece of art depicting the evolution of the mobile phone over time. Eight different phones have been constructed to reveal how the size of cell phones decreased incrementally. Each phone can be opened up to place the next size phone inside of it in the style of Russian Dolls. Of course now that we’re seeing a bit of increase in mobile phone size thanks to smartphones this sculpture may need some changes made to it!

Hanging Wall Sculpture. This is an interactive art exhibit that started with a sculpture of a large scale mobile phone. The phone was hung in a museum. Posters were put up all around the area asking people the question “what are you doing?” Those people could text in their answers. A slide show of the responses was then projected in the museum on the screen of the mobile phone sculpture. This type of interactive mobile phone art is common in modern museums today.

Samsung’s Giant Phone-In-Hand Sculptures. Back in 2002 and again in 2006 Samsung did a set of marketing stunts that involved mobile phone sculptures. The theme of the sculptural marketing was “phone in hand” and the sculptures depicted huge hands holding Samsung mobile phones. The first installation was a set of 21 different sculptures at the Charles de Gaulle airport in France. The second phase was the huge hand sculpture. Samsung has probably been the most active brand name as far as sculptural marketing efforts go.

Frozen Blood Phone Sculptures. Here we have some art that is really freaky. This artist freezes his own blood inside of silicone moulds that are designed to look like mobile phones. Then he takes the frozen blood out of the moulds and starts to thaw the phones so that the sculptures bleed. He then photographs the bleeding sculptures as art. Hmmm.

Phone Sculptures by Aofie Flynn. This artist actually takes real mobile phones and turns them into sculptures. The sculptures retain some of the look of the mobile phone but are also transformed into other things like people or characters. This is an interesting twist on the more traditional sculpture with the mobile phone as a subject rather than as the medium like we see here.

Concrete Installations. There is an artist named Will Coles who makes concrete sculptures of things that we use in daily life (including mobile phones) and then places those sculptures all around urban areas to be discovered by people during the course of their daily lives. This is a unique way to approach sharing your art and the mobile phone seems like an ideal subject for this kind of method since it’s all about communication and connecting with the world around us through technology.

Marble and Aluminum Cell Phone Sculpture. This mobile phone sculpture was actually installed in the lobby of a building at the New Jersey Science and Technology University. It is a sculpture of a mobile phone that is made from anodized aluminum and black marble. It’s a fancy sculpture that is designed to represent the importance of this type of technology in our society today. The design of the sculpture is inspired by the first mobile phone ever to be created.

Cell Phone Monkey. This hand-carved wooden statute is of a monkey who is holding a cell phone and has his hand on the steering wheel. What kind of statement is this piece of art trying to make about talking on mobile phones while we drive?! This sculpture is actually mass produced for purchase if you want to buy a mobile phone sculpture.