charlie whinney

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

He exists to explore the relationships between materials, people and the environment – and sometimes find where beauty and usefulness meet.

We undertake a wide range of projects that blur the boundaries between fine art, architecture and design, and projects often involve making as well as design and idea generation. The overall intention is to engage with and fully explore and fulfill every brief on many different levels; contextually, ecologically, with beauty and some aspect of innovation.

Sculptures by charlie whinney

Credentials

Biography

Furniture Design at Rycotewood, and 3D Design for Sustainability at Falmouth College of Arts. He also worked as an apprentice artistic blacksmith with Jos Whinney (1998-1999), and as a production assistant for Inflate Design (2002-2005). In 2006 he co-founded Cornish design company sixixis, running the commissions side of the business and designing many of the award winning products including the CurlyShade and the GallopyGallopy Bed. In 2008 Charlie Whinney Associates was formed near Oxford and several large commissions followed. After a short career break that involved travelling to over 18 countries in Europe and Asia, and a year spent in a near Abingdon completing several large commissions, we have now settled in the Lake District. The workshop is in a beautiful stone barn in Beck Head in the South Lakes, and most of our materials are sourced from the surrounding area.

Public Works

`DNA` - Cavendish Physics Laboratory, Cambridge University (2008).

Teaching Experience
wood-working / steam bending courses
Public Acquisitions
Charlie Whinney divides his time between that of a designer-maker as well, as well providing creative consulting services to a range of public and private clients, and running design workshops at several UK universities.