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Skull Rack #1
Three sheep skulls attached to Matai Planks using metal rods | 28 x 1000cm 2010 Skull Rack #1 is inspired by the skull racks of Papua New Guinea where the skulls of dead foes and relatives are...
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Lintel #1
Layered bone and shells on Matai plank | 13 x 1050cm [ to be hung over the top of a door frame ] 2010 This was the first piece I made specifically for this show. I didn’t originally intend to make a...
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Bird Man #1
Bird Bones attached to plank of Ponderosa Pine | 15 x 1180cm 2010 I had finished nearly all of the work when I found a box of albatross or mollymawk bones I had forgotten about in the attic. It’s hard...
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Bone Gun #2
Bones attached to a plastic M16 replica It sits on two rods in a purpose Built Metal Case by Carlucci | 20 x 70cm 2007/8 This is the second bone gun – the head is from a cat – it also contains the...
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Cult Hook #1
Bones,shells and fossils attached to a framework of Ponderosa Pine | 30 x 1200cm 2010 This piece is the largest and most dynamic of the series and contains the bones of many large animals including...
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BONE PISTOLS
Two bone dueling pistols (with spare bullets) mounted in a custom tailored case (with upholstery by Wellington jeweler Vaune Mason). To enable functionality and ease of display this one-of-a kind...
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MP 40 and Bone Tooth Colt Pistol
In December of 2012 two new bone weapons were completed – a life-size model of the German MP40 Machine Gun (or Schmeisser) and a small bird-headed tooth-firing pistol (the’ Bird Tooth Colt’). MP40 The...
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AK47 Machine Gun (life-size replica)
The latest bone gun by New Zealand bone artist – Mahalski – is a life-size AK47 (330mm x 940mm) featuring bones from rabbit, stoat, ferret, sheep, hawk, pheasant, wallaby, snapper, snake,...
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White Circles
Three circular wall-mounted shields made from recycled wood, wire, fillers, glues and found/gifted bone material. Each circle is approximately 60 x 60 cm wide and is focused around the skull of a...
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Limited Edition Prints
Bruce Mahalski has joined forces with multimedia artist, Jeiko Despotovich to produce a range of limited edition art prints featuring some of the recent bone sculptures. The first print features...
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The Bone Guitar
The first bone guitar is a collaboration between textural bone artist – Bruce Mahalski and guitar maker David Gilberd of Goldbeard Guitars. It is an acoustic slim body, steel string(6) dreadnought...
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Untitled Bust (2014)
A life-size portrait bust made using paper and wood as the base, crushed bone on the face and thousands of small bones from rabbits, possums, ferrets, stoats, a cat and numerous small birds. covering...
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Oves Dei (Sheep Goddess)
This new life-size bust with the head of a sheep but the body of a young woman piece relates to my long-standing interest in the history of land sales in New Zealand.In the late 19th Century ‘business...
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Human Bones in Art
I find it strange that not many people are prepared to use real human skulls in art today, although their visual representations appear absolutely everywhere. I recently acquired an old skull which had...
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Two Small Busts and a Big Mask
Mere de Rat (Rat Mother) 195 mm high/ 100 mm deep/265 mm wide . The main skull is from a Vervet Monkey. The creature is cuddling a rat skull in paws made from ther feet of Black-backed Gull. It also...
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The Bone Collector – philosophy and ethics
This is an excerpt from a forthcoming book with Dr Craig Hilton called ‘Seeds of Life’ which will hopefully be published next year. It currently also appears in the December 2016 issue of Phantom Bill...
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The Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery
In 2018 Mahalski moved back to his hometown and opened the Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery. The Museum fills three rooms of his old Victorian house close to the center of the southern city. Weird,...
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Seeds of Life – The Bone Art of Bruce Mahalski’ (New Book for Sale)
‘Seeds of Life – the Bone Art of Bruce Mahalski’ is a new book by scientist and artist, Dr. Craig Hilton, with a foreword by Dr Billie Lythberg, which has been published by Auckland’s Rim Books. Both...
View ArticleThe Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery
In 2018 Mahalski moved back to his hometown and opened the Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery. The Museum fills three rooms of his old Victorian house close to the center of the southern city. Weird,...
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