Wooden Keepsake Box Yosegi No. 47

Benjamin Reddan

Melbourne, VIC 

Looking to the Japanese art form, Yosegi, for inspiration, Benjamin works with a variety of timbers including Tasmanian oak and merbau to create a series of intricate boxes as experiments with different inlay patterns and great tests of his skill. Benjamin’s work was exhibited in ‘The Art of Making: Studio Woodworkers’ at ADC in 2022. 

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This work was exhibited as part of the The Art of Making: Studio Woodworkers at Australian Design Centre in 2022. 

Dimensions: 215L x 850w x 50 d mm

Materials: American black walnut, iron bark, American white ash, American white oak, jarrah, yellow stringy bark, Tasmanian oak and merbau, birch plywood, kunos oil

Image: Benjamin Reddan, Yosegi Keepsake Box, 2021 Photo: Courtesy of the Artist