Creativity and recycling are the basis of Barry Flett’s artwork. Designing and building functional sculpture has been a venture of Flett’s for over 20 years.
Flett recycles parts from everything from bed post knobs to oil funnels, to anything you can imagine that can be used to create art. He constructs and designs lamps, tables, and other furniture as works of art, which have a purpose beyond just sitting there.
His artwork is currently on consignment at Dundee Designs in Alexander, and at Gopher Creek Coffee Company on Nelson St in Virden. Flett is also working with the owner of Front Porch Interiors and Design Store located in Wawota, Saskatchewan to have his art consigned at that store.
Flett also designs pieces for the pure pleasure of its appearance. He creates Steampunk Weapons, which are guns with a futuristic yet antique appearance, made entirely of recycled parts. One of these pieces has over 60 salvaged parts.
A couple of years ago Flett found a version of a piece of cutlery bent into a grasshopper figure at a thrift store and was intrigued. He started creating his own versons of "Buggy Cutlery." It was an idea he enjoyed, and kept on going with it. He says the Buggy Cutlery pieces are “neat and affordable art”. Examples of Flett’s Buggy Cutlery are for sale at the Arts Mosaic gift shop in Virden, as well as Dundee Designs in Alexander.
Artist Barry Flett creating Buggy Cutlery, Jul. 10.
Functional sculpture lamp, and steam punk weapon created by Barry Flett of Virden.
