Igneous

Within Australia, basalt or bluestone has been used as a building material for longer than you may think.

For the past 160 years European settlers have been quarrying and using this material in Victoria within architecture and infrastructure. However, there is archaeological evidence that indicates Aboriginal people have been using bluestone for over 8000 years to build eel traps and stone houses in regions of western Victoria.

In present day, bluestone is being quarried and produced at a greater scale than ever before, and with this industrial scale of cutting and quarrying comes with it the copious amount of waste material and offcuts that are bound for landfill.

For this project, it is the slurry produced from wet sawing bluestone that is utilized in the development of the Igneous wall lights. Through an experimental approach, the act of heating and casting this slurry was refined to a point where a powdered bluestone could be melted down to a liquid at 1200 degrees and cast into a solid form, without the need for any additional binding materials.

For additional information on this project see below the linked video to see the entire making process, and for any purchase enquiries please contact via email found in the about page.