Sydney Designer Jordan Fleming Launches Bright Things Lamp Collection.

The Bright Things collection was developed from Fleming’s obsession with legs. Beginning as a collection of doodles of creatures, the lamps evolved into objects that are big enough to become their own character representing a small corner of Fleming’s evolving universe. The lampshades act as bodies with protruding legs, giving them theatrical personalities as if each is a character in its own pantomime.

Jordan Fleming is a Sydney-based object designer and artist who recently launched her debut lamp collection Bright Things. These sculptural and highly textural lamps were originally exhibited at Melbourne Design Week 2021 Wonderstruck exhibition, curated by Elliot Bastianon and Andrew Carvolth.

Fleming developed Bright Things in response Wonderstruck’s brief which invited selected designers to create a dream-like fantasy world with designs that encapsulated the qualities of awe and wonder. The uplifting qualities of light are well understood, but the young designer set out to explore if the lighting object itself could also be uplifting. This colourful range of playfully anthropomorphic lamps in striking hues is her response. Together, they open a small porthole into the fantasy world that bubbles away in our daydreams.

The Bright Things organic, mushroom-like forms are hand-built with layers of sculpting plaster and custom mixed with raw pigments. Using the tactile and uncontrollable characteristics of plaster as a guiding force, the designer embraced the way the material holds a fingerprint. The result is an unstandardised and unapologetically hand-made, rough-hewn surface.

Believing that people are drawn to imperfections, Fleming’s lamps have a warm and earthy texture. They reveal the mark of the designer in each lamp’s unique development in which no two are the same.

With a background in cabinet making and interior design, Fleming splits her time between producing bespoke furniture commissions and conceptually driven exhibition designs. Her experimental approach produces objects that live in a bright-hued world and take on unique personalities of their own, characterised by humour and a playful, wonky asymmetry.

The Bright Things photographic series was created in collaboration through distance and a lockdown with photographer Victoria Zschommler and stylist Nat Turnbull. The lamps are made to order in a variety of sizes and colours from jordanfleming.com.au

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Bright Things colours are a combination of muted tones like soft terracotta and lilac as well as stormier hues like scarlet red. Each mixture of pigments varies slightly as its worked into the object’s material, dissolving the boundary between form, surface and colour.

[Images courtesy of Jordan Fleming. Styling by Nat Turnbull. Photography by Victoria Zschommler.]