NEW WEBSITE UP AND RUNNING

www.timwebberstudio.com

The Tim Webber Studio webiste is up and running, just needs a few more images added but its pretty much there. Hope you check it out and enjoy.

Tim

Keyring Rubix Cube

Here's a few flicks of my latest sculpture "Chain Cubed" hung outside my studio at 90 Wellesley Street.

As with all of my sculptures I look at playing with scale and how that can transform an everyday object into something spectacular. The cube will be lit at night from 6pm to 1am if you want to check it out!
The surrounding art on the wall is done by the collective I'm a part of, Urban Development.
www.urbandevelopment.co.nz

Photos by Matt Arbuckle

Updates on the way! Come Back Soon!

Wow, what an intense last semester of uni. Im glad to announce I have completed my Bachelor of Design majoring in 3D Object.

Because of this I havent updated the page in quite a while, so if you got my card at the recent Grad Show at Unitec, please come back again in the next week or so and i will have updates of all the work that was displayed as well as some of my older works.

See you again soon!

Exhibition Time!

Been meaning to update this for a long time but been so busy, but i thought i would quickly post about my exhibition coming up next month.

Its a collaborative exhibition with myself and Matt Arbuckle - who just came first runner up at the Wallace Art Awards. I will be displaying my large inflatable sculptures and Matt will display his large canvas paintings.

Exhibitions Details:

Exhibition of recent
Paintings by Matt Arbuckle &
Sculpture by Tim Webber!!


ONE NIGHT ONLY!!

OPENING: WEDNESDAY 4rd November 09
6pm- 9pm


SHED TWO. UPPER DECK
90 WELLESLEY STREET, AUCKLAND.
(Next to DEUS EXMACHINA CAFE & THE SECRET GARDEN)

plenty of parking available outside.

Be great to see you there!

Everyone loves lego!

Its definately a sense of nostalgia and fun childhood memories that makes people cant help but love lego. And whos to blame them! Theres so many options with colours and shapes and sizes, you can make whatever you like just by playing around with blocks. Personally i can spend hours sifting through my old lego looking at all the different bits and pieces.

So for our 4th year fundraising craft stall i thought i would create some necklasses that meant you can carry around a little piece of your childhood whereever you go. They are bright, fun, playful objects that people seem to really love.

Again, if you are interested in buying any, flick me an email at timwebberdesign@gmail.com

Even managed to spell my name out of bits and pieces

David Trubridge Internship

On the 22nd of June I travelled to Hastings from Auckland for a week long internship with David Trubridge. David is a very well-known New Zealand and Internationally respected furniture designer that has been operating out of Hastings for many years now. He was very kind to have let me observe and help out in the workshop for a week and i really appreciate the oppourtunity. He has been to many Milan shows and has won numerous awards for his designs. David has always been an inspirational designer to me and partially influenced me to take the 3D design course i am now studying.

I found my time at Davids very valueable in learning how a design business and workshop is run. It was alot of fun being able to help work on the CNC machine, put together lights, assemble packaging and shipping containers, and get to know the staff at the workshop. Since spending the week with David and his team i actually got a whole new appreciation for his furniture and lighting. The amount of hand craft that is still implemented into creating his designs is remarkable. For example, his lights that are constructed with rivets, when looking at them in the shop or seeing them in a magazine its very easy to glance over the fact that ever single one of those rivets were done by hand by a worker in little Hastings. Or the commision bench they were making at the time, in which ever single length of wood had to be steem bent and hand shaped to fit the structure. I think i came to this level of apprecaition once having first hand experience in the construction.

I thoughourly enjoyed my time spent with David and his team and would like to thank all of them for being so welcoming and friendly.

Reel to Real

The shelving units discuss a number of different aspects of sustainable design, predominately utilizing the ‘re-use’ and ‘re-make’ notions. The display below was made up of 661 cassette tapes, comprising of a selection of Amway business tapes, different music styles and family events. The idea surrounding this work is based on storage. The primary function for cassette tapes is storage, it’s an audible vessel for favourite music, information and important events in a persons’ life which often provoke strong notions of nostalgia. This work is now a visual means of storage for memorable items rather than an audible documentation of them. It’s an old, out-dated medium for storage but is now being re-used to continue to serve the same function it was designed for, just in a different manner.

The components can be arranged in a number of different ways to appear as cogs and wheels, meshing together in reference to the original mechanism of a cassette player.

The tape shelves are available and are made to order. If interested please contact me by email: timwebberdesign@gmail.com