Winter Exhibition Focus: Ralph Shuttleworth
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- Jan 13, 2022
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Ralph Shuttleworth is a wood sculptor and designer, who uses movement within wood to form sculptures with intriguing, elegant forms. His contemporary style draws on both traditional woodworking techniques and modern technology to create unique gestural pieces.
Ralph's work is a collaboration between natural processes and human involvement, in order to create sculptures with a clean yet organic feel, allowing the wood to inform the final shapes.
This Gestures series uses black walnut wood, which is bent by hand into free form shapes, using a technique which heats up small sections of the wood to allow the sculpture to slowly emerge as the curves and twists are formed by hand.
Ralph has been sculpting wood since 2016 and has exhibited in galleries and exhibitions across the UK, including London design Festival and Handmade in Chelsea. In Summer 2021, Ralph graduated from Nottingham Trent University in furniture design and was featured in Crafts magazine as one of the top graduating designers. He now works from his studio in the Sculpture Lounge, in West Yorkshire.
View ‘Gestures in Walnut #1’ by Ralph Shuttleworth in our online Winter Exhibition which can be viewed on our website until Sunday 30th January 2022.
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There’s something about Ralph’s work that stops you mid-scroll—because wood usually feels rigid, fixed, but his pieces look like they’re still deciding what shape to become. I’ve been trying to understand movement in static objects for years, and seeing black walnut bent by hand into those gestures reminded me of a similar challenge I ran into while printing 3d models for the first time. You realize that even with digital precision, the material pushes back. Wood warps, filament shrinks, and what you imagined doesn’t always survive the making. Ralph started in 2016 and already has London shows and a Crafts magazine feature—that’s a short timeline for such emotional work. From my own messy experience, the secret isn’t forcing the shape…
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