Sep
18
2026
Johnny Depp to Unveil First Sculpture The Bunnyman in Istanbul
Johnny Depp’s first sculpture, a two-metre white bronze called The Bunnyman, will be unveiled at the Contemporary Istanbul art fair, running from September 22 to 27. The artwork is presented outdoors as one of the fair’s special projects at Tersane Istanbul, the historic Ottoman shipyard on the Golden Horn.
Described as a half-human, half-rabbit guardian carrying a sword of truth, the sculpture originated from a drawing by his son Jack around the age of five. The drawing reminded Johnny of a recurring childhood dream, and the figure has since appeared across his sketches, paintings, and prints. The sculpture was created through a collaboration between the Sigg Art Foundation, Pantheon Art, and Fonderia Artistica Battaglia in Milan.
The unveiling coincides with his exhibition, A Bunch of Stuff, at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, which features more than 200 of his artworks. Johnny, who is currently in post-production on the films Ebenezer and Day Drinker, shared about the artwork: When people see the painting I did – The Bunnyman – they always ask the same question: where did it come from? Some character that Jack had scribbled, beautiful scribbles into that shape, that image, reminded me of a kind of recurrent dream that I had as a child, probably around Jack’s age, five, six…
