For the last few years i’ve been quite obsessed with making decorative screens, room dividers, both out of metal, ERW steel frames with fabric, and also painted panel screens.
Below are two examples i’ve made, one as the bare metal, pre-painting and the other a finished decorative piece.
They are a great piece of furniture and I have kind of come to see them as an extension of the gallery wall, if you know what I mean - a canvas, a piece of art, a pictorial element to your home. Something about making them from scratch and painting or decorating them really appeals to me as a maker and as an artist. Functional art / design with more of an individualistic soul…i’m not sure which it is, perhaps both and I find that meeting of my two practices really fertile and intriguing. I'm trying to refine the materials as they always tend on the heavy side…so it’s ongoing! But that’s the beauty of it, I suppose….
