Showing posts with label Australian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australian. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 April 2018

Bern Chandley


Bern Chandley makes traditional and modern windsor chairs at his studio in Thomastown near Melbourne. His Instagram has many films and photographs of his process and design.


Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Tracey Deep


Australian artist Tracey Deep makes constructions from flora, sculptures that draw on basketry, weaving and other crafts to create displays that play with the lines of the plant matter used and then interplay with the environment and light.





Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Justine Bolzon





Justine Bolzon is a young furniture maker and woodworker based in Adelaide, who uses locally sourced timber and hand crafting to create exceptional tableware.

Thursday, 21 September 2017

Bern Chandley


Australian Furniture maker Bern Chandley works on variations of the Windsor chair, this is his low back, stick chair, diner.



Thursday, 3 August 2017

Elsasso


Elssaso works in the Dandenong Ranges outside of Melbourne, he uses the beauty of Australian native timber and flora, to create unique fine woodwork for the home.. 
Elsasso's wood work is characterised by its stunning ‘inlay’ designs created using banksia cones and other native seeds that have been gathered from across Australia.









Sunday, 4 May 2014

Elliot The Bull - Colourblind by 'Oh Yeah Wow'






Elliot the Bull is a wooden animation made for Colourblind by Australian film makers 'Oh Yeah Wow'. The set of over 400 blocks was made primarily from upcycled wooden pallets. The set construction and design was by Ben Brayshaw who won Australian furniture student of the year 2012. You can see behind the scenes pictures of the production here. 

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Adam Cornish


Adam Cornish's hammock made from plantation grown plywood, it is made from curved slats that flex to support the body.

Adam Rish


  


Adam Rish is an Australian artist and sculptor who carves these modular sculptures with hinged, pinned joints. Adam's works are influenced by ancient mythologies and tribal/ indegenous story lines. Adam also works in textiles, ceramics and print.

Sunday, 23 October 2011

Lyndal Hargrave

Lyndal Hargrave explores patterns, "Overarchingly my work is the notion of universal structure and the geometry that has informed our evolution from molecule to macro-system." I just love the way a humble wooden coathanger can be so visually stimulating and offer so many possibilities for design. (Thanks)

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Greg Hatton Benches


More of Greg Hatton's sympathetic designs.

Greg Hatton

Greg Hatton 'Twiggie' designs and makes furniture from sticks, found wood and upcycled wood each piece is unique and has beauty, integrity and poetry about it. Greg's design processes are materials driven informed by the beauty of natural materials and found objects.

Friday, 29 April 2011

Robbie Rowland



Robbie Rowland's bends things that shouldn't be bent, lamp posts, desks, filling cabinets, beds and oars. Robbie Rowland peeled spaces in his 'Grace In Ruin' exhibition, he lets us look at things in new ways as new structures, removed from there practical application.

"Rowland takes objects that are often forgotten, invisible or transparent to us, objects that exist on the verge of disappearance, and stages a kind of 'breakdown', inviting us to rediscover the object, poised somewhere between what it was and what it might become." Simon Cooper

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Andrew Wood


Andrew Wood is an Australian Sculptor who delights in the native woods of his continent, such a Iron Wood and Red Gum, and in the nature of their survival and phoenix like characteristics of rebirth from fire, hence a lot of his work has titles involving the words flame and fire. He often uses thin pieces of wood which he bends, burns and distorts.