Charlie Whinney's unusual woodwork includes pleasingly elegant furniture, giant outdoor sculptures, bafflingly complicated geometrical structures, fruitbowls, flowerpots and lampshades. All of it is made using the steam-bending method (of which he is the major UK exponent) to create smooth, curved forms that manage to look simultaneously crisp and organic, like neat plants - and he tries to use locally sourced wood where possible, too.
Susan Bradley's metalwork also takes its inspiration from the natural world, though the material she uses to do it is about as industrial as you get. She brings the outside indoors with her 'creep' shelving and table range, bleeding flowers and leaves off their painted steel surfaces onto neighbouring walls and floors. Then she takes the inside out again with her brushed steel 'Outdoor Wallpaper' (TM), spreading bright silver floral patterns across garden exteriors. The edges of her forms look sharp enough to cut yourself on (and probably are), and give the strong impression that a graphic/interior designer has been doodling on reality while you weren't looking.
Assembled under subtle lighting in the grand interior of Freud's cafe, this exhibition really works, the styles complementing each other - and their surroundings - marvellously. Some of Susan's pictures of her work in situ have been applied rather hastily to their posterboard backing, and Charlie documents his outdoor work in a scruffy little ringbound folder, but this rusticity doesn't detract from the impact of the pieces on display, which is undeniable.
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