Australian Wood Review

Material Explorations

Sourcing, jointing, stack laminating, shaping and sanding is hugely labour intensive work. What does all this mean to you and how do you make ends meet?

I think with what I do you really have to love the process, the material and the end result. Most days I get up and look forward to getting into the studio. Although I have a wonderful community in my partner, family and friends who are invested and love to help me out, mostly I make these works entirely on my own, and at this time there is no studio assistant and very little outsourcing. It is a very personal process which heavily involves the artist’s hand.

Why have you chosen wood as your main medium?

There’s something about wood I find really warm. There is

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