Joseph Walsh

Joseph Walsh is a 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 great understanding and sympathetic use of the material, the intimate relationship between the process of finding forms and creating structures, and the continuity and resolve from the concept stage to the making process define his studio and work today. Walsh's workshop, employing an international team, engages in resolving technical challenges as his work becomes more complex. They explore new materials while continuing to further the possibilities of engaging with wood. The work of the Studio continues to advance skills, inspire an innovative response and challenge existing practice in achieving the ambitious pieces realised.

In theEnignumseries, Walsh strips the wood into thin layers, manipulating and reconstructing them into free form compositions. He then shapes these layers to reveal not only the honesty of the structure but the sculpted form; a unique collaboration of man and material. The title derives from the Latin words Enigma ('mystery') and Lignum ('wood'). For Walsh, these words sum up the series: the mystery of the composition lies in the material.