Chris Twitchell
Wire Car Sculpture | Precision & Passion | Where Engineering Becomes Art
Chris Twitchell is a British artist whose handcrafted steel-wire car sculptures celebrate the precision and poetry of automotive design. Born into a car-obsessed family in the 1970s, he grew up immersed in the sounds of restoration, the smell of metal and oil, and the rhythm of engines being reborn in his father’s workshop - an environment where engineering and artistry were never separate.
With a lineage of engineers on one side and artists on the other, Chris naturally gravitated toward both disciplines. A defining moment came during a visit to the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, where he encountered the body-buck used to shape the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO. That moment revealed that craftsmanship sits at the intersection of engineering and sculpture - an insight which set the direction for his creative journey.
Each of Chris’s wire sculptures begins with a handcrafted “buck.” Every contour is traced, every wire bent and soldered by hand, using traditional coach-building methods refined through modern techniques such as laser cutting and 3D printing. Once assembled the structure is cleaned, painted in the vehicle’s original factory colour (or custom shade if required), and mounted on a bespoke base. The result captures not simply the car’s shape but its spirit - motion held in stillness.
Chris’s work has been featured in major automotive-art exhibitions. For example he was included in “The Gallery 2024” and again in “The Gallery 2025” at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, where his wire-frame of a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR and other iconic marques drew particular praise.
Commissions reach collectors worldwide, with pieces inspired by Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and Lotus.
Each sculpture is a tribute to the artisan coach-builder and the elegance of designed form - a meeting of precision and passion where engineering becomes sculpture, and motion becomes memory.
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