Lot 330
TIM STEAD (1952-2000)
ELM AND BURR ELM SIDEBOARD, CIRCA 1990
Auction: 16 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
with gold filler embellishment, the freeform top above two burr wood drawers and with two cupboard doors below, each with pegged hinges and enclosing a shelf
Dimensions
128cm wide, 93cm high, 48cm deep
Footnote
Provenance; Purchased from the artist
Note: Tim Stead was born in the Cheshire countryside, surrounded by trees. He studied fine art at Trent Polytechnic, where his interest in creating from wood was developed and in 1975, Stead did postgraduate work at the School of Art in Glasgow, where he met his life partner, Maggy, who continues his studio today.
Major commissions included Café Gandolfi in Glasgow (1979); The Memorial Chapel at the Kirk of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, created after the Piper Alpha disaster; the throne for the Pope's visit to Scotland in 1983; the Peephole in the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (1996) and his last major work, a collaboration, was the Millennium Clock in the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
He was a founding member of the Woodschool which enables craftsmen to develop the skills needed to make full use of local, native timbers and in 1986 he launched the "Axes for Trees" project, which involved making one wooden axe head for every day of the year, and selling them to raise money to plant trees. He was also a co-founder of the Borders Forest Trust and played a leading role in the Millennium Forest project, which created Community Woodlands throughout Scotland.