Furniture
I have been designing and making furniture for exhibition and for domestic and public spaces for over 25 years, working with Australian and international clients, combining traditional and innovative making techniques with contemporary design.
I use Australian timbers sourced from sustainably managed resources, with a special interest in small sections of timber and minimal forms, and with experimental techniques using plantation timbers. I have exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Canada, and my work is in homes and private collections around the world.
I approach designing and making as a sensuous collaboration with both material and process. Working with wood resonates deeply with very old human traditions across most cultures. It can be approached as a process of feeling, reading, listening and responding to the vast life story of a tree within its interconnected community of biotic and geophysical relationships across time frames. For me, wood is an emplaced life story, a view into the past, present and future of the more than human community. This understanding means that I grant considerable agency to material and to process.
A chair made in memory of our remarkable lost friend Matt Harding for the Studio Furniture 2018 exhibition at Bungendore Woodworks. Chair in Silky Oak, solid, steam-bent, laminated and veneered 530w x 500d x 780h.
Summer Rain (washes the pain away) Bench in QLD White Beech. Hand carved texture, sound. A transducer uses the bench as speaker playing the sounds of a subtropical thunder and rain storm.
Myriapod Table - silky oak red cedar and silver quandong.
Structures of Flight -Sculptural Chair in red cedarr, silver quandong and kangaroo leather.
Cantilever Table and Katerina Chairs
Sylvana. Chairs
Delicate Embrace Table. Steam bent timber, glass. Made with Kim Groenvald at Collaborationz
Crows Ash Stool
Echinoid Chair
Wag Chair
Whipbird Chair - birdsong becomes chair
Bent Bar Stool - steam bent spotted gum and silver quandong
Bug Stool
Ellipsis Table in silver ash
Curvature Sunlounge
Helena's Cabinet
Steam Dandy Chair in Silky Oak
Sapling Chair
Ripples in Country Table
Place One chair
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you ... A stool of steam-bent bunya and cast silicon - deep rooted, from the edge, full of the songs of wind and land. Approx 450 x 450 x 300mm, Ross Annels 2023. Prototype Aeolian Harps for sonifying/singing the winds - various dimensions, Bunya, bamboo, red cedar, harp pins, nylon monofilament. Ross Annels 2023. Soundscapes composed/composited by Karla Pringle using sounds gathered from the bunya lands by Ross and Karla using Aeolian Harps and digital recorders, reproduced through stool and headphones. 30 mins. 2023
