CYLINDERS
Free-standing, thrown lit porcelain light sculpture
The inspiration for Cylinders originated many years ago. Margaret was staying in Osaka, in a dramatic skyscraper hotel from where she could look down onto the crowded city below. It was her first experience of a skyscraper. When back home in her studio she thought 'what will happen if I throw a lot of cylinders, all different heights, just as I had seen from the skyscraper?'. Margaret joined the cylinders together and found an ingenious way to disguise a light inside the structures.
Dimensions - height: 200mm | diameter: 480mm
Price: £6,000 | Excluding packing + shipping
WAVES
Thrown, re-formed and joined translucent porcelain lit wall sculpture
The wall sculpture is wheel-thrown and fine porcelain bands are reformed and joined onto one flat circular band to form a single stable form which is fired to 1,300 degrees C. A metal backing plate with electrical fittings supports Waves.
Dimensions - diameter: 500mm | depth: 140mm
Price: £2,975 | Excluding packing + shipping
WHIRLING DERVISH
Fine thrown porcelain light on a black thrown ceramic base
The fine thrown porcelain is cut with a waving wire from the potter's wheel, twisted, turned and joined, so giving the sense of a whirling dervish.
The black ceramic base holds the GU9 lamp holder and lamp
Dimensions - approx. height: 170mm | diameter: 130mm
Price: £500 | Excluding packing + shipping
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CURLED LIGHT SCULPTURE
Free-standing thrown porcelain light on a black thrown ceramic base
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The thrown porcelain is cut, twisted and joined
The black ceramic base holds the GU9 lamp holder and lamp
Height: 240mm
Price: £300 | Excluding packing + shipping
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CHAMPAGNE FLOWERS
Free standing light sculpture
Thrown translucent porcelain cones by Margaret O'Rorke combined with hand woven steel with copper, wood, aluminium and LED lights by Sirkka Paikkari
Created in collaboration with the Finnish art weaver, Sirkka Paikkari, Champagne Flowers is a unique illuminated architectural sculpture
Height: 130cm
Price: £6,500 | Excluding packing + shipping
Maker bio: Sirkka Paikkari is an art weaver, cultural producer and inventor of the Loomster Weaving Device. She specialises in making large scale woven art pieces in steel, linen, porcelain and paper, incorporating optic fibres. For over 30 years Sirkka has created these art works from her studio in Finland, and with many of these produced in collaboration with other artists.
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Sirkka assembling Champagne Flowers in her studio
Sirkka and Margaret combining the first porcelain pieces
ARROWHEAD CHANDELIER
Cast porcelain chandelier with arrowhead lights
Can be suspended in any number of arrowhead lights
In March 2017 the Arrowhead chandelier featured in the BBC2 programme, The Great Pottery Throwdown, series 2, programme 8
Price:
Seven light chandelier: £2,050 | Excluding packing + shipping
Single pendant light: £295 each | Excluding packing + shipping
Dimensions - length: 105mm | width: 300mm
Supplied with light fitting, lamp and 240 volt GU9 lamp holder; lamp: Crompton LED G9 capsule 2.5W 2700K frosted
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WOVEN LIGHT AND PORCELAIN
A double sided installation in woven steel, fibre optics and thrown porcelain
Woven Light and Porcelain on exhibition at the Kwum Museum, Fiskars, Finland | November 2019-September 2020
This was the first piece created with the Finnish art weaver, Sirkka Paikkari. The collaboration began in 2008 with Margaret's visit to Sirkka's studio in Helsinki where she was weaving a paper installation on her purpose built loomster weaving device.
Height: 3m | Width: 0.8m | Depth: 0.16m
Price: £24,500 | Excluding packing + shipping
Sirkka working on a paper installation and Sirkka and Margaret work on ideas for their collaboration
WOVEN LIGHT CHANDELIER
Woven steel and fibre optic with thrown porcelain wings
Created in collaboration with the Finnish art weaver, Sirkka Paikkari. Designed to hang in the stairwell at G W Sundmans
restaurant, Helsinki, Finland.
Price: £6,400 | Excluding packing + shipping
VORTEX 1
Lit porcelain chandelier in woven steel and light fibres
Following the creation of the first two chandeliers, Margaret and Sirkka decided to design porcelain pieces which could be lit from within.
Dimensions - height: from the main hook of the circular frame to the lowest point of the woven steel, 135cm + 50cm to accommodate fibre optics; diameter: 50cm at the widest point
Price: £6,500 | Excluding packing + shipping
VORTEX 2
Lit porcelain chandelier in woven steel and light fibres
Vortex 2 on exhibition in Watt's Up, held at Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges, France | June - November 2014
Created in collaboration with the Finnish art weaver, Sirkka Paikkari
Height: 4m
Price: £35,000 | Excluding packing + shipping
BAMBOO LIGHT
Cast porcelain
This light installation can be made from any number of porcelain bamboo pieces
Price on application | Excluding packing + shipping
WALL DISKS
Thrown porcelain back lit wall installation
Left: detail from a Wall Disk installation, right: Wall Disk installation at Louis Poulsen's showroom, Copenhagen, Denmark
An installation can be made from any number of individual Wall Disks
Price on application | Excluding packing + shipping
SPACE DISKS
Thrown porcelain backlit wall installation
An installation can be made from any number of individual Wall Disks
Price on application | Excluding packing + shipping
CLOUD DISKS
Thrown porcelain backlit wall installation
Cloud Disk installation on display at the Milan Furniture Fair, 56th Edizione Salone del Mobili
Cloud Disk installation at John Cullen Lighting, Kings Road, London
An installation can be made from any number of individual Disks
Price on application | Excluding packing + shipping
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Margaret's Cloud Disk installations were created in conjunction with Applelec Lighting and they feature the Applelec LED Light Sheet | Visit Applelec: www.appleleclighting.co.uk
You can find out more about the collaboration and the project in an Applelec Lighting online article: LIGHT + SWIRLS
SINGLE WALL DISK
Translucent thrown porcelain
Diameter: 280mm
Mounted on hot rolled steel frame, measuring 810mm x 400mm x 25mm
Lit by an LED sheet by designLED
Price: £1,100 | Excluding packing + shipping
SINGLE ANGEL WING
Translucent thrown porcelain
Diameter: 290mm
Mounted on hot rolled steel frame, measuring 810mm x 400mm x 25mm
Lit by an LED sheet by designLED
Price: £2,800 | Excluding packing + shipping
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