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PROFILE
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Byron is not a fan of acquiring new ideas and influences drawn from 11,12. Hand tools have their
tools for the sake of it though. ‘These the stories behind the materials and place too and all are
‘users’. Photos:
are all used’, he confirms. machines themselves. Linda Nathan
13. On the walls and shelves
Byron’s path as a maker started on the Shortlisted for Studio Furniture 2018, are jigs, templates and
prototypes for designs
farm – fixing things and improvising Byron challenged himself to create a new
that have been developed
is a known training ground. design for a floor lamp that he now also and constructed over
time. Photo: Linda Nathan
Encouragement from a technology makes as a pendant light. ‘The great
teacher at high school led to furniture thing about that project was carving out a 14. Byron Raleigh with his
Glide stool made from
design and making studies at Box Hill space to just explore...that was play for me.’ salvaged Otway
TAFE in Victoria before completing Ranges blackwood.
Photo: Fred Kroh
a degree in furniture design at the His artist’s statement summed up
University of Tasmania. Teachers the ideas which are expressed in his
John Smith, Kevin Perkins and Phil work. ‘(My piece) is the result of a
Blacklow espoused modernism and love affair with machinery…Despite
environmental imperatives to influence the wonders of the industrial and
all who studied there. The poetry digital revolutions, craftspeople offer
and humanity of Perkins’ work is an something that no machine ever can.
inspiration to this day. Objects unique and imbued
with humanity.’
From there Byron took an
independent path, guided by his love Contact Byron Raleigh at
of process and design fused with www.artefactfurniture.com.au
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