Alien Ocular

Born in Marburg, Germany in 1981, Brosi now lives and works in the North west of Ireland. After training as a furniture designer at The Furniture College, Letterfrack, Brosi’s work expanded to boatbuilding and hollow wooden surfboard construction. For the past several years Brosi has specialized in sculptural forms, turned, carved, and sandblasted from green oak, often in combination with rusty steel elements. His work focuses heavily on the tension between stark geometric forms and the natural distortion of green wood as it dries. Since 2014 Brosi’s work has earned several Irish and international accolades including recently winning the woodturning category of the RDS (Royal Dublin Society) National Craft Awards in Ireland and having received an Excellence Award at the AAW symposium in Pittsburgh. His work is included in several private collections in Great Britain, Germany, and the USA.

- Max Brosi