OFFCUT LAMP series
Each lamp is a singular, un-reproducible work produced from varying sizes of steel sheets discarded in an architectural fabrication yard.
Drawing from the historical practice of ‘spolia’ in architecture; the borrowing of materials from earlier structures, the lamps are an act of adaptive reuse. A single intervention of a small hole for fittings allows the redundant offcuts to be reconfigured into objects that sit between painterly abstraction and purposeful design. Their intrinsic patina has in places been augmented by paint, hues of Cyan blue and warm white referencing the colour palette of Le Corbusier’s home in Paris, where the works were first installed as elements of a site specific installation; He was my father, and I was an atom of him, destined to grow into him, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris in 2015.