our team
Oliver Buckworth
Oliver is the founder and creator of Buckworth Co. He has a wide variety of artistic background. After traversing many creative industries he now finds his passion in building and designing space and object.
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Fine art degree from chelsea school of art london
Bachelor of digital media and film from SAE byron bay
Completion of over 30 designed and built venues encompassing restaurant, nightclub, bars, cafes, playgrounds and festival instillations
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Some of the most notable projects include.
Museum of London, working with Guildhall school of arts. designed and built interactive museum experience spaces
Designing and building Newrybar village and harvest cafe
chef hatted restaurant “Fins” in Cabarita
multiple nightclubs on chapel street Melbourne
the conservation centre of “The wild tomorrow fund” in South Africa
Get to Know Oliver through his instagram
Elodie Gervaise
Elodie is our leading draftsperson and building designer. She is responsible for bringing the madness of the creative process into a solid deliverable package.
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Master of architecture from QUT Brisbane
6 years experience working for byron bay based residential architecture firms.
Zaher architects.
Harley Graham architects.
Balanced earth architects.
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Elodie has been the project architect on several residential projects throughout the Northern Rivers. She has a particular passion for renovations and loves to take what is existing and give it a new life. (then the rest that you wrote)
She is now working with Buckworth Co. creating the plans and translating our creative ideas into a reality. She is also a fundamental part of the team in her own creative capacity and brings a touch of class.
Latest work with Balanced Earth
Solid Grain Timbers
Solid Grain is a Byron Based timber salvaging team.
These guys do the magic of saving an incredible resource from being waisted and thrown away.
Lucky for us because the wood is beautiful and aged, allowing us to create the rustic weathered feeling inside our spaces.
We are working alongside them to also create government change to iradicate some of the extreme wastage in demolition.
Ancient big scrb rainforests eing crushed and thrown into ipswich tip should not be allowed
Check out there amazing salvage business
Zelimir Harasty
Zelimir has a fine arts degree, majoring in sculpture.
He did a 4 year carpentry apprentership and has been building for 8 years
He has the perfect on site skills to translate creative concepts into the methodology of refined carpentry.
Zelimir is currently practicing oil painter and Sculptor.
He has overseas residency and shows in Sydney.
His skill level and creative contributions are essential to our success
LONDON COLLABORATION
Thornhill Shann
I have been fortunate to do projects all over the world.
My relationship with Thornhill Shann has seen some successful custom jobs which have accompanied there huge town house renovations.
We are bought in to specialise in some of the bespoke reclaimed elements.
Its a pleasure working alongside such a high finish outfit.
South Africa, Wild Tomorrow
Conservation centre
The wild tomorrow team are saving large strategic pieces of land to re wild and allow crucial wildlife corridors.
Working alongside Oliver Crossley who is responsible for the re construction of the conservation centre. Oliver Buckworth was hired to re design the run down old resort into a progressively sustainable and environmentally friendly headquarters for the charity.
