BRAD MCDOUGALL

A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and Penland School of Crafts, McDougall has been creating sculptures since 1990. He was also a finalist on the television series Forged In Fire in 2018. McDougall enjoys conquering the challenges of metalwork, and the resulting hammered finish that shows the unique process of creation. He is inspired by the act of physically extracting a figure out of a hot bar of steel in order to transform it from a square rod into an animated and gestural figure. He states that “there are recipes for success in making sculpture, but I am inspired to create new recipes that question how we think about sculpture, metal, animals or the way mediums interact, compete, or complement one another.”