James Shaw (GB)
The Sum of its Parts
August 18th – August 24th 2024
James Shaw United Kingdom
James Shaw is a London-based designer who makes objects and furniture. His work aims to bring out the inherent beauty of diverse materials, often uniting or contrasting handmade and tactile qualities with the structured and systematised. Frequently his work considers the resources around us, challenging the notions of “waste” and “value”. He is probably best known for his work with recycled plastics, and his self-built extruding gun, which produces blobby, gloopy and baroque forms, creating objects of unexpected beauty from a problematic material. Shaw’s work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, The V&A, MAK Vienna, The Montreal Museum of Art, Design Museum Ghent and The Museum of London, among others.
https://jamesmichaelshaw.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmshaw/
The Workshop
In this workshop we will look at breaking down ‘waste’ into new materials and building functional, beautiful new things from it. We are looking to change our perspectives, see something problematic as a resource, and find abundance in the world around us. You will be open to identify your own materials to use but as a starting point we will identify various material streams produced by Boisbuchet and the surrounding area.
There will be a variety of tools and machines available in addition to the standard equipment offered by Boisbuchet which will allow us to work with that range of different materials. Through experimentation we will be finally making lighting objects which hopefully will become a permanent addition to the Domaine.