James Walsh

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James Walsh is Naarm/Melbourne based furniture and industrial designer. Making furniture and homewares for his own studio brand and leading Australian companies, his practice demonstrates a combination of traditional, often primitive, design methods with contemporary techniques. A prevalent theme throughout Walsh’s practice is his interest in the use of waste materials and how they can be used with cultural and design significance. This being best represented in his exploration of bluestone in his Igneous wall light, and the use of waste glass material in his recent Anthropic series. Walsh has been exhibited across Australia as well as in Italy as part of Milan Salone. He is recipient of numerous awards and accolades including the 2020 Australian Furniture Design Award, 2017 Interior Design Excellence Award and the 2016 VIVID – Decord and Design Award. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design (First Class Honours), RMIT.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.