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Who is Wayne Jeffery
Wayne Jeffery is a Western Australian sculptor whose work explores the movement, rhythm and imperfect beauty of the natural world through reclaimed steel.
From discarded sheet metal and industrial offcuts to pieces of steel found by the roadside, materials others consider finished become the starting point for something entirely new.
His work is held in private collections, represented by galleries across Western Australia and found in public and deeply personal spaces — yet his reason for creating remains remarkably simple: to make people stop, feel and perhaps see the natural world a little differently.
"If I can make ten people in my whole career go out and look, feel and experience nature differently through my work, then I've had a successful career as an artist."
- Wayne Jeffery
Where his inspiration comes from
Wayne says that from childhood he has had an unusual ability to see the rhythm and flow of nature.
Creating those movements in steel gives him the same feelings nature does - relaxed, comfortable and energised - and he hopes the eventual owner experiences something of that too.
Every piece tells two stories.
The life the steel has lived.
The life it becomes in art.
Old washing machine. Scrap. Offcut. Sheet. Roadside bolt.
Nothing needs to be inherently valuable before Wayne sees possibility in it.
That comes directly from his description of loving "breathing life back into a piece of steel everyone thinks is worthless and rubbish."
The Game
He described art as taking small pieces of steel in different shapes and sizes and turning them into something sculptural from which another person can see beauty.
More importantly, creating is where he feels genuinely free.
"My art will set me free." - Wayne Jeffery
Wayne creates his art, knowing it will find its true owner.
It goes into galleries, exhibitions and the world via social media until someone connects with it.
One story is of a man that walked into Boranup Gallery and saw the Mangrove table. It reminded him instantly of childhood memories of mudcrabbing in the NT with his father. He couldn't leave without it.
Explore Wayne's Work
Boranup Gallery
Witchcliffe WA
Petrichor Gallery
Walpole WA
New Leaf Gallery
Bickley Valley WA
