Furniture · 1999 – present

Sit on a brush. Go on.

5 works · 1999 – 2007

It started with a tin drum and some industrial bristles in 1999. The question was simple: could a brush be engineered to hold the weight of a person? The answer, thanks to Dawson Brushes in Leeds who modified the bristle angle and density, was yes.

The Lazy Cleaner Stool came first – won the degree show, ended up in a laundrette for a press shoot, appeared in the Telegraph. Everything since – Scrub Together, Grippy, Brush Squared, See Saw – grew from that first question.

Practice

Furniture

Period

1999 – present

Works

5 documented

Type

Studio · Edition

The bench that started from a misunderstanding

Scrub Together.

People assumed I’d simply made an oversized scrubbing brush. That misunderstanding became the brief. If they think it’s a brush, make it more of a brush – but one that holds the weight of two people and works as a table or a bench.

Influenced by Claes Oldenburg’s large-scale readymades: taking an everyday object and shifting it into something playful, functional, and slightly disorienting in scale. Now showing at Manchester Art Gallery as part of Won’t Sit Still, 2026.

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Where it all began · 1999

Lazy Cleaner.

Degree show, 1999. A tin drum body, a leather-look upholstered seat, and an industrial brush base that should never have been asked to hold a person. It won the show. It appeared in the Telegraph. It ended up in a laundrette for a press shoot with a woman in curlers sitting on it reading a magazine, which felt exactly right.

Every brush furniture piece since – Scrub Together, Grippy, Brush Squared – is this one’s fault.

Sit on a brush. Go on.

The furniture works

Scrub Together.

Lazy Cleaner.