According to Gittings, it wasn’t always destined to be furniture or sculpture. “I originally wanted to make guitars” he admits with a smile. “But then I quickly worked out I can’t do that, because there’s certain... limitations. Like a guitar or violin actually has to sound good [laughs]. Like you can’t just make a shit sounding guitar” he quips. “What I like about furniture, is that there’s a starting place to begin from. There’s still some constraints... but there just feels like all of these possibilities. You can make so many different shapes, textures, weird forms. I don’t necessarily think about it conceptually, I just find it more interesting to play with these things and ideas and see where the work wants to go.”
“It’s heaps darker now than I originally imagined. When I first started thinking about the show, I liked the idea of it existing within a kind of fantasy realm. It was very colourful, there was lots of mirrored surfaces. But that idea just morphed when I discovered how to texture the metal in this specific way, instead of polishing. I also started thinking about panpsychism, the consciousness of plants and animals, a more psychological direction than the last collection I made. I started having weird dreams, which usually happens in the lead up to a show. I’m working constantly and so a symbiosis occurs. There’s a dark violence to them now.”
“It’s heaps darker now than I originally imagined. When I first started thinking about the show, I liked the idea of it existing within a kind of fantasy realm. It was very colourful, there was lots of mirrored surfaces. But that idea just morphed when I discovered how to texture the metal in this specific way, instead of polishing. I also started thinking about panpsychism, the consciousness of plants and animals, a more psychological direction than the last collection I made. I started having weird dreams, which usually happens in the lead up to a show. I’m working constantly and so a symbiosis occurs. There’s a dark violence to them now.”
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Table lamp 1, 2022
57cm x 25cm Stainless Steel
AUD 3,400
SOLD
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Michael Gittings
Blue Tree,
Stainless steel
220cm x 110cm
$9,800 AUD
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Michael Gittings
Pink Tree,
Stainless steel
220cm x 170cm
$7,500 AUD
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‘I FOUND YOU IN THE FOREST DREAMING. 2021
TALL BOOKCASE
STAINLESS STEEL, COPPER, VITREOUS ENAMEL 230 X 130 X 50
$16,000 AUD
SOLD
TALL BOOKCASE
STAINLESS STEEL, COPPER, VITREOUS ENAMEL 230 X 130 X 50
$16,000 AUD
SOLD
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80bcef6a670b96cb8551fe1befc4bbceadab87c3ecc735a5578ffb89ef5c74ca/CS-IV_299.jpg)
‘FUTURE RUINS’
SMALL SHELF/ BAR
STAINLESS STEEL, COPPER, VITREOUS ENAMEL 960 x 920 x 40
6,500 AUD
CONTACT
SMALL SHELF/ BAR
STAINLESS STEEL, COPPER, VITREOUS ENAMEL 960 x 920 x 40
6,500 AUD
CONTACT
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07d2d4e6890784eb528eda7ce98baeec848d3ae1313959b05fc08e663a0dbb5d/CS-IV_295.jpg)
‘FUTURE RUINS’
COFFEE TABLE
STAINLESS STEEL, COPPER, VITREOUS ENAMEL 400 x 1406 x 86
5,000 AUD
CONTACT
COFFEE TABLE
STAINLESS STEEL, COPPER, VITREOUS ENAMEL 400 x 1406 x 86
5,000 AUD
CONTACT