Paintings & Prints

Products Paintings & Prints Sils Maria Acrylic paint on linen. h. 90 cm, w. 150 cm. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND The original painting was acquired by the National Museum of Scotland, Contemporary Design Collection and is a part of the National Archive of Scotland. Sils Maria Giclée Fine Art Print            … Read more

The Goddess & Design

Le Corbusier The Modular Gary Morga

Le Corbusier
The Modulor Updated
The Feminine Atoned

Le Corbusier The Modular Gary Morga

The narcissistic split from the self and the brutal heroic attitude at large particularly in the west must subside for the forces of healing to be release. We have split from our internal nature and separated from our anima. We have repressed the feminine and natural ingredients of our psyche. Humans have lived and are living through an era where the abuse and disregard of women, the feminine, of nature and the earth, where bloodletting has prevailed.

Social, psychological, and ecological destruction have emerged together.

Disparity is the most powerful tool in existence used to great affect to perpetuate this separation ensuring our enslavement. Our native imagination has the power to transform our self concept and the societies we live.

Nature’s success is its diversity and difference. Humans natural being is a part of this system where all life flourishes, the earth breathes and rivers flow. Its success is dependant on its completeness, light and dark, awful and delightful, masculine and feminine all are a part of this whole.

Unique in history we are at the dawn of a new consciousness. The availability of information makes it possible to go beyond propaganda and learn about ourselves, our societies, our planet and to understand what is really going on. The era of abandoned anima, the negative warrior archetype and of separation from our nature is fading. Feminine and a more nature conscious-ness is succeeding characterised by an awareness our planet is dying, the prominence of women in business separately, social imbalance as well as a realisation growing among men of their deeper emotions.

Coming back into balance

Gary Morga MA GSA

Published in The Creative Review, 11th March © 2013, Link

The re-integrating with the self in men and the end of repression in women. Re-connecting with our natural soul, our anima, typified by the re- emergence of the Goddess Hero archetype. The promise of a real new way a more complete way is emerging.

Our everyday environment conforms to the ideological dogma of the past. The chairs we sit on, the tables we sit at promote the current notion of what is “right” and give us permission to act within their confines of perceived acceptability. An important step in the changing of our self concept is to change our environment to support and uphold our new notions of our selves and of the future we dream of.

By recognising and understanding what is going on inside psychologically and outside socio-politically and economically we can start to create a more balanced, whole and conscious place for all of us to live.

Responsibility

Designers and architects have the opportunity to lead the way to a new truly sustainable future for all creatures and life on this planet to live together.

YANG floor lamp, design & iconography

YANG floor lamp

YANG
floor lamp

Design & Iconography

                                                                                                              

Thinking about the design, development and iconography of YANG floor lamp and an attempt at an explanation.

When light emits from a single source, a point, unhindered, it’s spherical in space. With direction and focus a cone of light is formed.

In one orientation the cone is up and unstable like air. In the opposite orientation it’s down, stable and solid like the earth.

There is completeness in this.

Our two elements, one up and one down, need a connecting structure to hold them apart and together. In keeping with an idea of the completeness of opposites we arrive at the archetypes male and female. It’s a small step to the trans-cultural symbol Yin and Yang. 

YANG, the definition; all that is male, light. 

YIN, well, dark and negative, who could resist that dogma.

There’s a lifetime of information and contemplation to be found on these two concepts.

The illuminating tips are ‘jewel’ like and bring a preciousness-ness and novelty into the design, and light. Yang floor lamp evolved.

There’s a limited and dwindling number of them that are available from our own store and from
Béton Brut
, London E9 5LG

The design was an unconscious act informed by years of research in to lighting design and an interest in life. Being in the right environment precipitated the design. 

I sketched the design with a pencil on paper at the Bieffeplast factory during a quiet moment sitting in the corridor. The next day we made her.

Memphis Milano

MEMPHIS MILANO Comment on the involvement literary criticism, structural anthropology and the Bauhaus had on Memphis Milano and on Design. Memphis Milano undoubtedly drew inspiration from Art Deco, Pop Art and 50’s Kitsch. But there was so much more to the Memphis Group than this. They demonstrated an awareness of the predominance of male-ness that … Read more

Blue and red painting

Postmodern painting Gary Morga

Blue and red painting

Blue and red painting was one in a short series of painting that emerged during extended meditation.

I rented a beach house, a small apartment on the shore in North Berwick, Scotland for four months.  I spent my days meditating two, three times a day, enjoying the beach and early morning walks along the shore.

The meditation was specific, shambhavi mahamudra as taught by Sadhguru. I Attended a workshop in London for my education and ascension to a higher level of practice.

During this time I had an urge to paint. Unlike my mainstream work I knew what the end result was at the begining.

Blue and red painting

Lacan’s Real . . .  Beyond our man made, programmed mind and it’s limited imagination lies our essential essence, Lacan’s “Real”.  Include what you have learned in the unravelling of your life yoga, meditation and Shambhavi Mahamudra,  superconsciousness.  We are born in to dogma. Reprogram your mind, create yourself.

Gary’s Real . . .

What you think you become. What you hold in mind is your reality. How we are living is our past taught response to external stimuli, facts. Often we respond to these facts with an unconscious prototype that we acquired in our early years. What we experience is our interpretation of our thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Consciousness, changing our thoughts and how we choose to respond to facts changes our experience and our world. In this way we can fashion our own reality. Feeling outside your past and holding on to that feeling that something new is possible and reliving that feeling over and over again.

For more information about buying original one-off paintings and prints contact us.

APHRODITE Lamp

radical design, floor lamp

Aphrodite

Aphrodite, Gary Morga

Aphrodite floor lamp is one of three lamps. The other two are, Ares and Hephaestus. The collection described the exploits of these three characters in Greek Mythology.

To switch the light at the bottom on/off, grab her and push down. The light at the top remains on constantly while connected to the mains. Made in acrylic and metal. The lower light is produced by two 11w compact fluorescent lamps. Warm white lamps of course. The light at the top is red neon. Height 1m 95.

I was looking for my Goddess and realized she is the anima. What had prevented me from her was the intervention of the negative Warrior archetype prevalent in the West, that I’ve been at odds with my entire life.

The Goddess Hero is a reconnection with her and a shift towards a more balanced sense of being, a more conscious place to inhabit.

Aphrodite is a symbolically significant, postmodern design.

Gary Morga, floor lamp, radical design
Design workshop Gary Morga
Design workshop Gary Morga
Design workshop Gary Morga

ARIZONA, Postmodern Design

Postmodern Design Gary Morga

ARIZONA

Gouache paint on A2 cartridge paper.

There were the humans, the Hopi, Tohono, Pima
and other tribes and there was the land, trees, sky and the sun.
Then the Jesuits came, then the army, then the West.

Arizuma – silver bearing – Aztec
 O’odna – small spring – Indian
Haritz-ona – good oak – Basque

Part one
of a two part postmodern design project

The second part of the project I am pondering and procrastinating about. I look at it quite frequently and think about it quite a lot. I might continue it one day.

Painting DODDS

acrylic painting Gary Morga

DODDS Acrylic painting on canvas (h. 1m 20 x w. 1m 20) This is a computer facsimile of the great painting DODDS. I’ve lost the photos and haven’t seen the client for over 20 years. When I do eventually see him I’ll ask for a photo.  Private collection.

Painting BANANA on a Blue Square

painting Banana on a Blue Square

Banana on a Blue Square Acrylic on board A banana on a blue square and a green ovaloid with a cherry at the top. The cherry’s partially covered by a red square at the bottom. right corner.

Chair AMUN RA

chair, postmodern design, Gary Morga

AMUN RA This one’s gilding metal and silver. What better inspiration for a chair than Amun-Ra, the carrier of the sun disc . . .  Amun-Ra was a prominent character in the ancient Egyptian parthenon of gods. “All forms of life were believed to have been created by Ra, who called each of them into existence … Read more

Candle Holders

candle holders Gary Morga

RITUAL & RITE Metal, bright chrome finish, ebonised pearwood, velvetine on the underside. Candle holders or a handy container for those little things.  There’s enough parts to put together about 20 of these and that’s all.  Contact us for details.

Cafe Chair TONY

Cafe chair postmodern design gary morga

Cafe Chair TONYCafe chair and table. Materials: Eco-board/acrylic, metal. Features: stacking chair, stacking table, cafe chair, cafe furniture. Made to order – contact us.

Suspended Lamp

ECLIPSE BIEFFEPLAST

ECLIPSE Suspended Lamp. Manufacturer: Bieffeplast SpA Materials: metal, methyl methacrylate. Lamp: CPF Produces a soft reflected light.  The sphere illuminates. Inspired by a railway signal seen from a train and thoughts on trans-cultural signification. Presented at Euroluce 1986 BIEFFEPLAST CATALOGUE 1986 Back cover: YANG, floor light, Design Gary Morga. Design: Michele de Lucchi, Simone Drost, Eveline … Read more

Table Lamp Scorpion

Table Lamp Bieffeplast Gary Morga

The prototype, I made it over the month of August in a one of my silversmithing tutors from Camberwell, Alistair McCallum, workshop in Old Street, London.  SCORPION Table lamp for Bieffeplast. The triangular module can be located anywhere between the two curved, conducting, metal rails. The light switches on when the triangular module is located between the … Read more

Suspended Light

suspend lamp bieffeplast Gary Morga

RED POINT Suspended lamp Manufacture, Bieffeplast SpAMaterials, metal, methyl methacrylate.Lamp, 2 x ES 40 watts. Presented at Euroluce 1986 Produces a soft light reflected from the ceiling The tip illuminates red.   The National Museum of Scotland RED POINT was acquired by The National Museum of Scotland, Contemporary Design Collection and is a part of … Read more

ZEN Floor Lamp

ZEN floor lamp, radical design, Gary Morga

ZEN Design 1984. Made in metal and marble, the lamp is halogen. Height: 210 cm. Zen floor lamp. The lamp is located within the end of the metal tube and illuminates the metal plate reflecting light in to the room. The direction of the light and luminance into the room can be changed by rotating … Read more

Executive Desk

Executive Desk

EZEKExecutive Desks Prototype design and manufacture: Gary Morga Design Materials: glass, metal, imitation lizard skin, possibly crocodile skin, including cable management. Furniture, to serve as a reminder of our common, primal origins, of our humanity and spirit. That we can have either spirit or ego but not both, it’s one or the other.

Metal Floor Lights

floor lights Gary Morga

LUMINUM Manufacture: Parklea Ltd.Design: Gary Morga.Material: aluminium, powder coated paint.Lamps: halogen, 12 volts. A series of floor lights designed using sheet metal, cutting, folding, drilling and a little turning. By varying the configuration the metal components a series of contemporary lights was produced. By orienting the entire light creates variety. Different configurations and lighting qualities … Read more

Metal Sculpture

Metal sculpture Gary Morga

Metal Sculpture with applied patina METAL SCULPTURE The metal sculpture is handmade in gilding metal. I developed the design using a series of card models. From there I worked out the blank for the various parts on paper, then in card and then transferred it to the gilding metal marking it out carefully with a … Read more

Postmodern Design Clock

postmodern design, gary morga

Postmodern Design Clock The postmodern design story unfolding in this article as about a person standing on his head. He is a non-conformist. He is a fundamentalist, signified by the brown trapezoid on the left as you look at the article. He re-writes the laws of science. His interests are far-reaching. They are cosmic and … Read more

Water Pitcher

water pitcher Gary Morga

PITCHER Silver plated gilding metal. This water pitcher project started off with my idea to design and make a double handled water container. But, it developed in to a one handled vase with a strap handle. The iconography was a consequence of my subconscious and the prototypes in there. It has a feel a bit … Read more

Mythologies

floor light, postmodern design, Gary Morga

Aphrodite . . .  Center, to switch the light at the bottom on/off grab hold of the pole and push it down. The light at the top remains on constantly while connected to the mains. There’s more about this light here. Mythologies A series of lights based on the exploits of three characters fromGreek Mythology;Hephaestus, … Read more

Fortuna Espana

postmodern design Gary Morga

Fortuna España Acrylic paint, 22ct gold leaf and mirror on canvas, 1993, 150cm x 90cm. Postmodern Furniture Design Spain, throughout history, has been a collection of provinces, like much of Europe. Rivalry between regions encouraged competition, pride and machismo. There’s religion, a significant element of Spanish culture and loyalty to the local aristocracy. The Moors … Read more

Memphis Milano

Memphis Milano, radical design, Gary Morga

NASTRO Memphis Milano Following a couple of meetings with Barbara Radice curating for Memphis Milano I was invited to submit ideas for lights for the Memphis Milano exhibition 1987. The design for Nastro was conceived in my flat in London. Originally, I called the design, “Lights Circa 1987”. It was a statement about lighting design … Read more

Chandelier

modern Chandelier, radical design Gary Morga

Chandelier . . . held in place with screws that have jewels set in to their heads. . . . screws have spherical heads inlaid with turquoise cabochons. It hangs perfectly. A commission for an uplifting piece, a chandelier, that caught the eye and stimulate conversation. The client wanted their risque suggestions incorporated in a … Read more

Wall Mirror

Wall Mirror, radical design Gary Morga

WALL MIRROR Postmodern Design Q.     Miroir, miroir sur le mur,         qui est le plus beau de tous les . . ? A.     Je sais que ce . .  Our postmodern design story unfolds with our ego, prompted by our vanity – we glance at our image in a … Read more

TeaPot

teapot Gary Morga Bonhams

TEAPOT TeaPot Handmade in gilding metal, nylon & silver plate. This process is ‘Abstraction’. The creative process, design development in 3D, modelling. Handmade metal teapot Presented by Bonhams 2014 The Front Cover of Bonhams Catalogue Bonhams Lot Page: Teapot Design Development Using the idea of something moving across a surface to develop a design for … Read more

YANG Floor Lamp

Yang floor lamp

YANG floor lamp YANG floor lamp illuminates the room indirectly by means of reflecting light from the ceiling. The lighting is dimmable and can be adjusted to suit your mood. Adjust the luminance using the dimmer and set the ambience with brilliant, glare-free light. Halogen lamps provide feel-good light that looks and acts like natural … Read more

Postmodern Design Methodology

postmodern design book, Gary Morga

Postmodern Design Book: A Methodology.The Symbolic Significance of Colour Line & Form. Like written and spoken language, design language and visual language comprises of an arrangement of signs, a signifier and a signified in a context with meaning. [add_to_cart id=”10260″ sku=”003″ style=”border: #ccc; padding: 12px;”] A step-by-step practical guide through the methodology I use to synthesises … Read more