SOUP TALK: CHARLIE WHINNEY- AN INTRODUCTION TO REGENERATIVE DESIGN
Charlie Whinney has created large-scale steam-bent art installations all over the world, as well as designing and making award winning furniture and lighting.
His studio makes beautiful eco-friendly objects, sustainable art projects, creative community projects and courses in sustainable design practice. Work straddles fine art, architecture and design grounded in making and ecology. He was commissioned by Northumberland National Park Authority to create an installation from the trunk of the illegally felled Sycamore Gap Tree in 2023.
Charlie worked briefly as an artistic blacksmith, inflatable maker, glass worker and architectural designer, but Charlie fell in love with the ecologically efficient route to creating work with green wood and steam-bending in 2002 and has revisited this avenue of work regularly ever since. In 2006 sixixis was founded with Tom Raffield and Chris Jarret, and in 2008 Charlie Whinney Studio was founded near Oxford, settling in 2011 in the UNESCO World Heritage Lake District National Park where the studio is an ancient barn at the foot of Whitbarrow Scar.
Charlie studied Architecture at Kingston University, Furniture Design at Rycotewood, and 3D Design for Sustainability at Falmouth College of Arts.
