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Crooked Lamps (in woods)
Crooked Lamps (in woods)
Crooked Lamp
Crooked Lamp
Crooked Table
Crooked Table
Off the Wall Clock
Off the Wall Clock
Little Crooked Lamp
Little Crooked Lamp
Staggered to the Bar Stool
Staggered to the Bar Stool

Andrew Oliver

Designer - Craftsman - Fine Artist

 

Quirky designs with dry humour, promoting eco-awareness, salvaging the quality and integrity of the past. Playing with the familiar and domestic. Employing skill and ingenuity.  
 
Born from practical experimentation “Andrew Oliver’s “Drunken Table, Crooked Lamp are a smart combination of talent and humour” 
Bold sculptural one-off interior items exploring form and manipulating the structure of salvaged and second hand furniture.
 
My aim is to merge the boundaries of art, design and craft to produce iconic pieces, which may be equally fresh in another 50 years time. Future classics.
 
Tradition, heritage, culture, and modernityplay a major part in informing my work. To look forward you have to look back as well as to the present day.
 
…Drunken Table's surface concertinas as if the wood has been folded like paper or card. This creates angular facets highlighted by the dark matt finish catching soft light from different angles. The scorched, ebonised effect has been a feature of theirs since their conception in 2006. The table appears weak at the knees as if consumed by an alcoholic stupor, with traditional wood-turned forms cut and rejoined to zigzag on their way to the floor. The traditional style standard lamp zigzags in the same way and stands at around five ft tall.
 
There is a deliberate element of humour intended, the items "Drunken Table, and Crooked Lamp" aim compliment contemporary, eclectic interiors and add a little eccentricity. I have also aimed for a story-teller feel to the work. I had in mind the following poem…
 
"There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house...".
 
Some people have compared the table to a young animal standing for the first time.
 
Ethical and environmental progression is undoubtedly of up most importance and thankfully increased demand, as such any eco-friendly solutions available to my work are carried out and promoted as much as possible. This includes using salvaged and sustainable, locally sourced timber.
 
The idea for “Drunken Table, and Crooked Lamp” came from practical experimentation with salvaged and second-hand furniture exploring form and manipulating structure. In recent years this has become know as up-cycling.
 
My thirst for research is an invaluable way of feeding ideas and references into my work. I seek to be influenced by material aesthetics, techniques, movements and philosophies.

Locations and categories

Location All > United Kingdom > York
Categories All > Visual Art > Craft Artist
All > Visual Art > Furniture Artist
All > Visual Art > Interior Artist / Designer
All > Visual Art > Lamp Artist

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