Brecht Wright Gander is a New York-based artist and the founder of Birnam Wood Studio. Although instinctively drawn to primitive types and forms of furnitures, Ganders is in fact a rebel-creating thought-provoking artworks with unconventional forms and materials. His designs are metaphorical, alluding, sometimes playful, giving the users surprising or sometimes even uncomfortable experiences that lingers. He challenges and inverts the ordinary understanding of how human beings and furnitures coexist and interact with each other. With his background in philosophy and early literary exposures thanks to his poet parents, he dives deep into the questions of being and gives his designs a strong conceptual and philosophical backbone.

Material experimentation is what excites Gander the most in his practice. Materials that require precise technical handling shows Gander's master-hand as a sculptor, but turning misapplications into unparalleled functional art pieces with unique textures and forms demonstrates his artistic attainment. Ganders often times carve and polish his imaginations with his childhood memories, personal references, and philosophical thoughts, but what he cares the most is the overall poignancy and intensity of his works and how they can evoke a wide range of emotions in the viewers.