page_title: Griffon Ramsey
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Griffon Ramsey / Works
caption_attribution_description: IMG_4789 Taken at RTX 2015.
context_page_description: Griffon E. Ramsey is an American chainsaw carving artist known for her pop-culture wood sculptures which have appeared at the Australian Chainsaw Carving Championships and the Butler Chainsaw Carving Invitational. Chip Chats magazine described her as a "world-famous" artist with an, "edgy and bold style" while VICE and Uproxx called her a "rock star of the art world" and noted her status as a female in a largely male dominated field.
  Several of her YouTube videos have attracted attention online, including her sculpting an Eastern red cedar into Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy, which accumulated over 115,000 views in three days. As of August 2019, her channel has over 4 million video views and 79,000 subscribers.
context_section_description: Griffon Ramsey uses a variety of chainsaws to create a "rustic" look and various angle grinders, sanders, and Dremels for details and likes a combination of burning, staining, and painting to emphasize nuances.
  Ramsey takes suggestions for carvings from fans via her Twitter feed. She edits videos which she posts to her YouTube channel, highlighting the process behind each individual carving and explaining the motivations behind each piece.
  Ramsey draws inspiration from, "street artists, folk artists, wood carvers, tinkerers, and in general, the self-taught, her work comes from a compulsive need to rearrange her environment and manifest the reality she would like to see." Of her work, Gio Sasso commented, "Nobody thinks of a chainsaw as an elegant tool for fine detailed work but in the hands of Griffon it seems to be... Griffon is a fantastic artist in her own right." When asked about what she finds interesting about chainsaw carving she responded, "beyond just what I can do with it— is that it’s also this performance art... it feels like there’s two different things happening at the same time. It’s the creation of the artifact or the byproduct of the experience."
  Her original carving of an archeologist finding a genie, titled Professor Morris Finds a Lamp, received praise from Butler Chainsaw Carving Invitational organizer Damian Skal and was the most complicated sculpture she had completed.
  In October 2011, her carving of the Crimson Omen logo from the Gears of War franchise attracted attention from multiple gaming sites and was called, "the most apropos Gears of War tribute ever" by Kotaku.
  In October 2014, her video of sculpting an Eastern red cedar into Groot, based on the tree-like character from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, accumulated over 115,000 views in three days and was posted to many geek culture sites, including Gizmodo, io9 and Geekologie. In November 2014, she drew attention for carving Elsa from Disney's Frozen after being inspired by her daughter's love of the character. In December 2014, Ramsey was invited by Stihl to carve a special piece celebrating the company's 40th Anniversary.
  In January 2015 Ramsey participated in the Australian Chainsaw Carving Championships, carving a story book from The Neverending Story, for which she won the People's Choice Award. In February 2015, she attracted attention within the gaming community for carving Majora's Mask, a life-sized replica of the facepiece from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In September 2015 Ramsey participated in the Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Championships.
caption: Ramsey working on a carving before an audience at RTX 2015.
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