Will specializes in:
Architectural design works – stunning gates and stair railings transforming your property into a truly pleasurable space.
Interior design works – original tables and lighting making your home or office memorable and enjoyable.
Sculpture and wall sculpture – from the lobby to the pool room, garden to the kitchen make it yours.
Individual commissions – turning your creative ideas into a lasting legacy in beautiful forged iron.
Public Art – interactive and though provoking public art designed for specific locations.
In Australia contemporary design and forged ironwork is a new exciting take on the blacksmiths trade. This is your chance to support the vanguard of this vibrant transformation of an age old craft. It is ideally suited to practical and sculptural applications with its tactility, strength, freedom in design, durability and shear originality.
Be part of it and have Will create for you some iron with personality.
Chrysalis Arts creates high quality artwork and architectural metalwork for the public realm. Kate Maddison, BA Arch collaborates with architects and developers on new projects, engaging with local authorities and involving communities in regeneration projects. The company combines the skills of artists and other design professionals with a range of highly skilled makers and specialist manufacturers, and has extensive experience in producing work to commission. The company’s diverse experience in the design, development, management and implementation of public art schemes and architectural metalwork commissions has gained Chrysalis an outstanding reputation for high calibre artwork, combined with professionalism in all aspects of project delivery.
John Medwedeff has been creating sculpture and site-specific architectural ironwork for over thirty years. His work is represented in numerous collections, including the Illinois State Museum, SAS Inc, The Metal Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
He has taught workshops and presented at symposia including Penland Craft School, The Appalachian Center for Crafts, ABANA conferences across the US, Pratt School of Fine Art, and several universities.
Publications include the HEPHAISTOS Yearbook (“Metall Design International,” Germany), Direct Metal Sculpture by Dona Meilach, Sculpture, Art & Antiques, Fabricator, American Craft, Metalsmith, and Architectural Digest. Following a three-year blacksmithing apprenticeship with James Wallace at the Metal Museum, he earned BFA and MFA degrees in art from SIU Carbondale.
His studio, Medwedeff Forge & Design, is a fully equipped forging and metal fabrication facility with 8 interior cranes and is staffed to handle fabrication projects up to 30’ tall. Having completed over 30 monumental sculpture projects, John has a wealth of experience coordinating the logistics of projects with community stakeholders to ensure a seamless fit when the piece is installed.
Maker of contemporary, hand forged metalwork for the home and garden.
Ironworworks Uk Ltd have been making fine metalwork for over 25 years.
Our small specialist firm produces a wide range of metal work from small fire sets to grand ornate staircase balustrading.
We are able to cover all stages from design of a concept sketch through to a detailed drawing,manufacture and installation
Sculptural ironwork for home and garden.
Blacksmith experience days available at my forge in the heart of Bristol.
Nigel is an artist blacksmith working at Fransham Forge in Norfolk England.
Nigel’s enthusiasm and dedication to his craft is shown in the vast range of high quality metalwork which is undertaken at the forge. Nigel creates decorative and functional hand forged metalwork , including sculptures, architectural metalwork, ornate iron gates and traditional ironwork for historic buildings. Nigel and his team work regularly with English Heritage and the National Trust.
Heiner Zimmermann forges art and translates traditional forms into contemporary visual aesthetics. He is an ambassador of his craft. Growing up in his father’s workshop he learned and appreciated the ancient techniques and traditions of hammer and anvil. In his work Heiner combines a traditional formal language practiced in ancient craftsmanship with contemporary aesthetic expression. Heiner is interested in modern aesthetics which include a revised use of traditional techniques and materials and this is an approach he teaches as a professor in Arts and Craft, at HDK University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
He finished his formal training in 1991 and was awarded the national “Good Design Award” (now known as “Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany”). Other awards followed. During his formative years, supported by several scholarships, he travelled and worked for renowned metal artists across the continent and in the United States. He then went on to do further training in the conservation of art and architectural history in Venice. After his master’s certificate in 1998 he took over his father forge in Pliezhausen, Germany.
Heiner Zimmermann’s works is always the result of a search for form, structure and surface that touch and move the viewer. His work combines a respect for the forging tradition and its material with contemporary art and design. Each work is forged through a highly individual creation process. As each unique work appears its formal development symbolizes the union of an idea, and human will, with the material – iron.
Blacksmith. Bespoke Ironwork Including Gates & Railings.
Adrian is a fully trained professional smith with a base of experience in traditional blacksmithing and restoration. The range of work undertaken during his career has been broad, from designing and making bespoke items to fabrication. He is Currently based in the city of Leicester, taking commissions and offering experience days.
Brian Russell , the master blacksmith at Little Newsham , established his business in 1976 in a 250 year old forge in Teesdale in the north east of England after studying art and design for four years.His work is varied like most most blacksmiths, but he has built up a reputation as a skilled exponent of design and forging skills whether the work be traditional or contemporary. Many journeymen ,(and women), have worked at Little Newsham over the years and have contributed greatly to the body of work that has been produced.
Calalogue components are never used in the work produced here, indeed Brian regards them with some disgust,and takes great satisfaction from designing his work around the forging process and producing every element in his well equipped workshop.
I’ve been blacksmithing for over 35 years. The way that the metal moves when it’s being forged is a constant fascination to me, as well as the whole myriad of ways that it can be used in and around the home, garden or public environment to make objects that are both practical and beautiful. Although I enjoy conserving and reproducing our great historical heritage of ironwork, I also like to explore the intended site and my environment for inspiration, to come up with fresh ideas when a contemporary design is more appropriate.
I can make forged ironwork in any scale – from architectural to domestic – and can work to commision or for direct sale.
I also have extensive experience of teaching and demonstrating the craft at many levels, and can offer demonstrations and bespoke short courses.
See our website for full details and gallery of previous work done.
Iron workshop, all year round highly professional blacksmithing school and a sculpture park, all in the same place.