Work
Absence
| Category | Laminated wood |
| Object | Sculptures |
| Client | Exhibited at ARO Gallery 2021 |
| Date | 2021 |
| Description |
This work explores the beauty of a blackened landscape. Learning to love a blackened earth after the devastation wrought by last summer's bushfires is not easy. It involves a change in aesthetic thinking to alter our appreciation of what much of the Australian landscape really looks like. Beauty is often not where we are conditioned to look but it there in the minimalism and black hollows. Black is also about renewal, fertility and regeneration. Ultimately, the purpose of this work is to invite the viewer to discover beauty in unusual places in the landscape and question the balance of nature and intervention, deconstruction and reconstruction, human absence and presence. |
Atomic Side Table
| Category | Transparency Collection |
| Object | Side Table |
| Client | Exhibited at GAFFA 2015 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Description | The construction of Atomic is a reinvention of a plastic toy puzzle. The pieces are simply slotted together in a perfect fit without glue .The result is a well resolved, classic design. Acrylic allows for maximum variety in transparent colours and sizes. |
Atomic Side Table in Blue
| Category | Transparency Collection |
| Object | Side Table |
| Client | Exhibited at Denfair 2016 |
| Date | 2016 |
| Description | The Atomic table also comes in transparent colours. Shown here in blue. |
Transparency Lights
| Category | Transparency Collection |
| Object | Light |
| Client | Exhibited at GAFFA 2015 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Description | The Transparency lights are inspired by plastic games and toys, with particular reference to Ray and Charles Eames ‘House of Cards ‘.This construction is also a reference to nature organic and exotopic forms – an investigation into the balance between nature and our constructed world. Each object is a plastic urban landscape with its own story. Observations of plastic in the urban environment told through a construct of space, colour and light. The Atomic side tables continue the investigation of plastic and the environment continuing the reference to plastic toys and puzzles. |
Steel Life Bench
| Category | Steel Life Collection |
| Object | Bench |
| Client | Exhibited at Kensington st Food, Art + Design festival 2015 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Description | Steel life is simple in technology and function. Two sheets of aluminium welded into cushion shapes. The cushions are then attached to a base of corten steel. These soft comfy curves in metal play with our senses. Despite the immediacy of its function , Blow Up remains intriguing; a playful visual paradox that challenges our perception of metal. A utilitarian object in every detail yet is still able to tell the story of this industrial material and its origins. Custom made to order as bench or stools. |
Steel Life Stools
| Category | Steel Life Collection |
| Object | Stool |
| Client | Exhibited at Kensington st Food, Art + Design festival 2015 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Description | Steel life is simple in technology and function. Two sheets of aluminium welded into cushion shapes. The cushions are then attached to a base of corten steel. These soft comfy curves in metal play with our senses. Despite the immediacy of its function , Blow Up remains intriguing; a playful visual paradox that challenges our perception of metal. A utilitarian object in every detail yet is still able to tell the story of this industrial material and its origins. Custom made to order as bench or stools. |
Steel Life Commissions
| Category | Steel Life Collection |
| Object | n/a |
| Client | Exhibited at The Italian Forum Leichhardt 2015 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Description | Steel Life stools and benches had been commissioned for both private and public spaces around Australia. |
Steel Life Exhibitions
| Category | Steel Life Collection |
| Object | n/a |
| Client | Exhibited at The Italian Forum Leichhardt 2015 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Description | Steel Life stools and benches had been commissioned for both private and public spaces around Australia. |
Fleurieu Wine Rack
| Category | Fleurieu Collection |
| Client | MARK O'RYAN designer brand sold in retail |
| Date | 2014 |
| Description | Exploring a sense of place, it encapsulates the Fleurieu peninsula’s rolling hills, surf beaches and vineyards. These are expressed in a simple pared down form of laminated plywood. Both plywood and the Fleurieu are a balance between nature and the man made. It has received recognition by the Design Institute of Australia and was awarded best new furniture product award at Designex. Designed around the shape of the wine bottle it can hold over two dozen bottles. It is 1.3m long and is available in beech and walnut from top3 and Workshopped. |
Fleurieu Collection
| Category | Fleurieu Collection |
| Object | n/a |
| Client | MARK O'RYAN designer brand sold in retail |
| Date | 2014 |
| Description | Exploring a sense of place, it encapsulates the Fleurieu peninsula’s rolling hills, surf beaches and vineyards. These are expressed in a simple pared down form of laminated plywood. Both plywood and the Fleurieu are a balance between nature and the man made. It has received recognition by the Design Institute of Australia and was awarded best new furniture product award at Designex. Designed around the shape of the wine bottle it can hold over two dozen bottles. It is 1.3m long and is available in beech and walnut from top3 and Workshopped. |
Fleurieu Bowl
| Category | Fleurieu Collection |
| Object | Bowl |
| Client | MARK O'RYAN designer brand sold in retail 2014 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Description | The Fleurieu bowl is a simple take on the wooden fruit bowl; pared down to a point where function remains and the unnecessary is excluded. Despite this minimalist use of material, the design remains warm and playful. |
Fleurieu Light
| Category | Fleurieu Collection |
| Object | Light |
| Client | MARK O'RYAN designer brand sold in retail 2014 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Description | The Fleurieu Light is a floor lamp with three elements. Its effect and a room is a warm soft ambient glow. |
Fleurieu Coffee Table
| Category | Fleurieu Collection |
| Object | Coffee Table |
| Client | MARK O'RYAN designer brand sold in retail 2014 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Description | The Fleurieu Coffee Table is a simple three leg base with a glass top. The combination of the components create a sense hovering, as if they are floating in mid-air. |
Presence Hardware Gallery
| Category | Exhibitions |
| Object | n/a |
| Client | Exhibited at PRESENCE Hardware Gallery Enmore Sydney 2010 |
| Date | 2010 |
| Description | http://vimeo.com/18130400 (video Julian Morgan) |
Set Design
| Category | Set Design |
| Object | n/a |
| Client | n/a |
| Date | n/a |
| Description | ABC television |