Pink Lady
Michaela Gräper
GERMANY
Pink Lady
Michaela Gräper
GERMANY
Carved from a single block of wood during her 2013 residency at Wildbrumby, German artist Michaela Gräper’s Pink Lady seems to have emerged straight from the landscape — half seated, half sentinel, gazing quietly toward the house ahead.
Shaped with chainsaw and hand tools, the figure is surrounded by carved wooden stumps that act as companions, plinths, or contemplative seats for visitors. The sculpture’s name comes from the rose-pink oil pigment once applied to its surface, echoing both the nearby grove of Pink Lady apple trees and, perhaps, a cheeky nod to the distillery’s signature schnapps.
Over time, the original timber aged and cracked — part of the sculpture’s natural cycle — but in 2024 it was faithfully recast in bronze by artist Phillip Doggett-Williams, preserving Gräper’s work for generations to come.
Pink Lady is a meditation on stillness, transformation, and the quiet humor of finding art in unexpected places — like a wooden woman in a field, watching you watch her.