Mike's at the Nelson Market.

Hey Y'all,
I'm gonna be down at the Nelson market tomorrow from 8 selling some of my new slot together designs. Just outside the market side of the BNZ. Come and say hi. Cheers Mike

Some earlier pieces

Here is a few shots of two pieces that a made a while back. I employed the glass casting skills of friend Jim Mackay to make up the blue shelves and centre piece. The timber is locally grown Rata, which is extremly dense and able to be sanded and polished up to a nice satin sheen. The cabinet is polished stainless steel and the three materials combined to be a nice mix.

The Cabinet was made for a Nelson furniture collective show and was purchased by a friend, which is always nice! The 'Ebb section' sculpture below was made for an exhibition in Nelson. It hung around for a while in our gallery, but was subsequently bought by a dealer in Hong Kong.

 They sent me the photo below of how they displayed it in their gallery, on a lightbox, which i thought looked really cool. wish i'd thought of that... They sold it a little while later to the Korean wood museum. interesting trip on the whole.

Work for the Suter art gallery

Hi All,

Here's a couple of job's recently completed for Nelson's public art gallery-The Suter - Te Aratoi O Whakatu. Straight joinery jobs but satisfying to work on nonetheless. There was a bit of mathematics involved in the making the card racks accomodate all the different sized cards. i'm not ashamed to admit that a calculator was employed. The card racks fold together and lock to deter possible light fingeredness by theatre goers at night....

The Light cabinet is situated at the back of the gallery in a hallway and is being used to exhibit their ceramic and small sculpture collection.

Urbis article

Urbis recently featured a spread on Nelson art and design. I was lucky enough to be included and here is the piece on my work.

Dont read the final sentence as it doesn't make a lot of sense. I must have been talking to fast for the journalist or something! what it meant to say was that, Living in Nelson,  there wasn't the financial pressure with higher living costs that a place like Auckland imposes on you. Therefore you are not under as much pressure to produce products that are more commercially viable and cut corners on quality etc. Geddit? email me if you need more clarification...Haha. Thanks to Urbis for the cool article anway!

Nesting tables for the olds.

These tables were made for my parents in Wellington after a request from my mother who was getting jaded with her(darling) grandchildren knocking over cups of tea etc. on the lounge carpet.

 Made from 8mm toughened glass and some 30mm ply i had kicking round the workshop. Cheers for the job Mum!

Spacejunk - The Desk

Here's a couple of shots of a recent commission i did for some local clients. I designed them a large custom shelf for their hall/entranceway at the same time and so i wanted the desk to tie in visually.

 The detail is of the draw front which is made up from laminated ply to continue the look.

The Woode

Also, here's a link to some designing i've been doing over the last couple of years for a great NZ company called Photoarts. The produce signage and displays and got in touch with me to design a range of sustainable display stands and brochure racks. They are committed to using local industry to produce their products and are using the latest in cutting edge printing technology and enviromentally friendly inks etc.
I was priviliedged to be flown up to the Pride in Print awards in Auckland recently where our design took out a Gold medal in the Environmental category.