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Historical background Heath Nash studied Fine Art, specialising in sculp- ture, at the University of Cape Town. He only start- ed making products such as lampshades and other lifestyle products aſter graduating. Tis young and upcoming designer is the winner of South African Elle Decoration’s Designer of the Year award in 2006 and was also appointed the SA creative entrepreneur of the year, by the British Council initiative.
Influences His work is influenced by Japanese paper-folding art called origami. Even though this is an Eastern craſt technique, Heath went in search of techniques that would express an African aesthetic. At a craſt market, he met Richard Mondongwe who made
beautiful plastic flowers. Tat was when
Heath realised that he could create beautiful con- temporary designs, by using the right materials combined with knowledge and skills of traditional craſters, to create designs that truly reflect South Af- rican design.
Characteristics Most of his products are created from plastic, whether it is recycled milk or cleaning bottles or sheets of die-cut polypropylene (plastic). His work has a definite organic, floral characteristic, and seems to repeat the same shape, over and over, in order to create a modular base piece.
Te objects are created for an interior market, becoming beautiful delicate works of art, trans- forming regular waste into something beautiful when light shines from within these designs.
Heath is very concerned about recycling and creating a more sustainable environment. Even though he recycles in order to source his materials, he is concerned that there is no such scheme op-
erating in South Africa. Tere seems to be no infrastructure for it. He is trying to raise some awareness with his products, that these materials are too precious to be wasted.
Description of works/products Most of his designs function as lights or light fixtures, becoming hanging sculptural interior displays. Quite a lot of his lights are monochromatic, made from milk bottles, creating ethereal white cocoons of light. Tis is a lot easier to create since the material (milk-bottles) from which it is made, is very readily available.
His full colour flower ball lights are made from a multicoloured cacophony of coloured flower petals that radiate richness and fantasy. He also makes co- lourful floor displays/carpets from cooldrink bottle tops, to wire pot hangers made for your kitchen from recycled telephone wire spelling the words, ‘It’s beautiful’,
from which you would hang your
pots and your pans, creating these transformed objects from waste!
Some of his products are screens made for hanging in front of windows instead of curtains. Tese are created from die-cut polypropylene sheets that are much more economical and less time consuming than searching for different coloured waste bottles to recycle for his colour ball lights.
Te important thing about his designs is that no two lights are the same. Tey are hand craſted, leaving room for individual and unique once-off pieces that would add a ray of light to any home!
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