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About 12 Sticks Brian Enright (pictured) started designing industrial re-use furniture in 2006.
With a project in mind and a class in metalworking at The Crucible,
his first design was still unfinished when interested classmembers were asking if they could buy one.
After a few projects for friends, a website and an award at his first art show,
he was approached about putting together a show of his own.
Re-use design is, for him a balance between the necessary destruction of objects in order to create, and the breathing of new life into those things deemed useless. Influenced by artists like Paul Pope, and Alvar Aalto, 12sticks attempts to balance the industrial, organic, function and form in each piece. He recently curated Deconstruction: changing object life. The spark for the show came from Picasso's observation (read via pulphope) that, for him, "...a picture is a sum of destructions." Although working in very different mediums, the idea is embodied in a more literal way with the breaking apart of objects to create new structure and change. Deconstruction showcased collaborative pieces with like-minded artists John Ricksen and Matthew McGowan, alongside work of their own for the first time. |