stephen sharkey

artist | designer | maker​
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With keen focus on fine hand-crafting and attention to details, I am exploring and incorporating the philosophy of design - from typography to architecture - into woodwork and furniture making, with inspiration from Brutalist, Modernist and Wabi Sabi philosophies. I attended GMIT Letterfrack Centre for Excellence in Co.Galway, Ireland, where I achieved a BSc in Furniture Design & Manufacture. 
​Before setting up my own studio in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, I worked for Sir Terence Conran’s Benchmark Furniture in Kintbury, UK and for Mark Asplin Whiteley in Whitby, UK, making luxury bespoke furniture for residential and commercial projects. I now design and make my own pieces, as well as a small range of homeware products, and also underatake commissions.





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