Month: June 2015

Joseph Walsh

Furniture Designed by Joseph Walsh

Joseph Walsh (born in 1979) founded his studio and workshop in 1999 in Co. Cork, Ireland. He is a self-taught designer maker, realising one of a kind and limited edition pieces. Walsh’s creative approach reflects his appreciation of nature and also his desire to engage the user with visual and tactile forms.

The understanding and sympathetic use of the material; the intimate relationship between the process of finding forms and creating structures; the continuity and resolve from the concept to the making process, define Walsh’s studio and work today. He seeks inspiration in nature, in the patterns of growth and evolution – this has influenced his approach to design and process allowing the pieces to evolve and reveal themselves. Walsh’s workshop challenges and disrupts existing practice in achieving the ambitious pieces realised.

Dimitry Zhilinsky

 

Dmitri Dmitriev Zhilinksy, “Bathing Soldiers (The Builders of the Bridge)”, Oil on Canvas, 1959

Dmitri Dmitriev Zhilinksy studied at the Institute for Research and Decorative Art in Moscow from 1944 to 1946 and at the Surikov Institute of Art, where he graduated in 1951. He was strongly influenced by his teachers Pavel Korin and Nikolai Chernyshev . Zhilinsky belonged to the Artists Union of the Soviet state which sought to develop the socialist realism style of art incorporating influences from Italian neorealism.

Etienne Jules Ramey

Etienne Jules Ramey, Marble, “Theseus Slaying the Minotaur”, 1821-27, Jardin des Tuileries, France

Ramey was born in Paris and was a pupil of his father, Claude Rame. He trained in the studio of Pierre Cartellier, won the Prix de Rome in sculpture, 1815, with the subject, equally classicizing and sentimental, “Ulysses Recognized by His Dog”, and collaborated with David d’Angers on the sculptures for the triumphal arch at Marseille, the Porte d’Aix, 1828 to 1839.

His worked in partnership with Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and taught at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. One of his pupils there was the Belgian sculptor Guillaume Geefs; another was Jean-Joseph Perraud.