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A hidden gem of metal mastery

Sometimes a community is like an oyster holding a pearl…you don’t know what you have until you check inside its walls. Enter the humble and humorous world of Richmond B.C. artist Lawrence Northey, and you have embarked upon an accelerated train ride through his “Imagineering.”

Northey’s ROBOTART takes out-of-time technology and refashions these artifacts into whimsical robotic sculptures. Each piece is a feat of engineering, starting with a cardboard pattern, testing for balance, assembling, disassembling and each part getting individually polished and assembled once again for the final product.

Northey has won numerous gold, silver and best-of awards for his imaginative art, has been widely published in national and international magazines including Art Scene International(2008) and Architectural Digest (2004, Russia), and has been commissioned for his individualized robot-sculptures by clients throughout North America.

Locally, Northey has shown his imaginative art in a ground breaking exhibition in 2006 at the Richmond Art Gallery. Currently, he is working towards a future publication in which he will storyboard the fantastic world of his many robot characters. This is something we can really look forward to seeing!

Northey is undoubtedly sitting at the cusp of international recognition. Get to know him and his work before he rockets from community “imagineer” to robot superstar! You can view his amazing smorgasbord of metallic “Imagineering” at on his website and contact him at lawrence@robotart.net.

Children

Though childless by choice

My heart is utterly torn

To be leaving my sweet feathered flock

And devoted scallywag fur buddy

While I go on a family-less vacation!

Ripples

My world is an abstract place

Rhythms and waves of movement and colour

Speaking a language for me to translate

Simplifying.

Goals

Babysteps! Breaking down the eliminations into manageable steps.

Rooted beats snooted

Tonight I was good

Rooted.

Brought bubbly water and eyes sought out the other totallers

We sensed the unity and drew together

In our collective hush.

Voices babbled and cackled around us

In their inebriated states

But deciding whether I was bored or in disdain

Of the drinkers

Was difficult to fathom.

No red no white no hops rice or potato

While eyeing the bounty on the counter

And wishing.

Met Paul from Johnnie’s end of the road

Who knew so many people including Lee.

And because I think you’ll end up reading this

My dear E

I was asked to tell you

Your light is at Lordco.

Thought stream

Sleep aid or

afraid to let go

3 is the slow curve to elation

4 is the tumble down.

Habit or problem or

habitual problematic

Fool stroke 1 too many

4 is the stumble frown.

Rather than omit

Is it possible to limit

Taste for pleasure

Not for the blur?

New Year’s resolutions

End up disappointed

In myself, still, yet,

Time for a change.

Tribal antics

What is sport?

It draws friends together from disparate walks of life

For a unified tribal moment of group agreement

And synergizes the dynamics of individual excitement.

Strangers bond and the spark and sizzle fuels the players

Sport and the art of friendship bond.

Of me

Baring of the soul

Colour coding mood exploding

Gaps and dashes

Blacks and flashes

Outlining the hidden aspects

Of me.

Pyrus by Jacques Clement

Where to?

A week of tearing around

Getting things done and undone

Getting nothing done or redone

Friends and benders and tender moments

Teetering on that sawblade but always

Regaining balance.