Master Series

Phantasmagoric Fruits

A Solo Exhibition of Works by Justin Bailey

Artist Statement

Designing furniture, lighting and objects, Justin Bailey is drawn to lightweight, gestural articulations among cold, modernist utility and seeks to transport users to a space somewhere between Jules Verne’s Nautilus and the Jetson’s living room. Subtle push, pull and shifts in form meet hard geometry that depict objects conflicted in their presence as something organic or digital without fully committing to either. 

Lamps fulfill a dual role in our spaces, part object of utility and part spatial adornment; this is further reflected in the simple, yet radical transformation the object undergoes when switching off and on. Phantasmagoric Fruits features a range of Bailey’s Crenellated Lamps and Polyp Lighting. These series build upon the fabrication of vessels that contain and shape illumination. Assembly becomes ornament and is articulated throughout vessel forms that look to convergent botanic forms as sources of expanding and inflating surfaces. Justin Bailey hopes to transport viewers to a fantastical, ethereal realm brimming in expanding, growing and glowing forms, finding themselves somewhere between botanic and sputnik, disco and digital.