Studio B.C. Joshua
Studio B.C. Joshua is the London-based practice of Blake Carlson-Joshua, creating furniture and objects that sit between art, design, function, and memory.
His work is shaped by an interest in the home as a place where histories, identities, and influences overlap. Drawing from family history, architecture, cultural memory, and overlooked figures, Blake creates objects that are both practical and quietly symbolic.
The Frontier Hooks grew out of his wider Harlem Cottage collection, a body of work informed by his grandfather’s journey from the Caribbean, through work on the Panama Canal, and eventually to Harlem. Cut from 100% recycled aluminium sheets and painted by hand in London, each hook carries subtle variations in line, colour, and surface.
For Blake, these differences are not flaws. They are evidence of the making process, turning each piece into an individual object rather than a reproduction.
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A wall hook is a small decision. Most are made in their thousands and forgotten. This one is made by hand, one at a time, in a studio in London and it carries something.
B.C. Joshua cuts each Frontier Hook from 100% recycled aluminium sheet, then paints the figure by hand before sealing it under a clear coat. The result is a functional object with the presence of a sculpture. No two are identical. The variation is not incidental. It is the point.
The figure standing on the hook is a Black cowboy. Joshua's grandfather was born in Harlem in 1890, and the Frontier series grew from his time in New York researching that history; the overlooked story of Black life on the American frontier. The hook is where that inquiry lives now, quietly, on your wall.
Designed to function alone or as part of a modular wall composition with FH II and FH III.
Two hooks. One figure, hand-painted on recycled aluminium, standing above them both.
B.C. Joshua makes each Frontier Hook by hand in his London studio. The aluminium is laser-cut from post-industrial sheet. The figure, a Black cowboy, is painted by Joshua himself, then sealed. Every piece carries the evidence of that process: slight variation in the painting, in the colour, in the way the figure stands. This is not a flaw in the work. It is the work.
The Frontier series emerged from Joshua's research into the history of Black cowboys on the American frontier, a history largely written out of popular culture. His grandfather was born in Harlem in 1890. The hooks hold that lineage lightly, without announcement.
FH II works as a standalone piece or alongside FH I and FH III as a modular wall composition.
Three hooks. A rider on horseback, hand-painted, moving through a landscape of cacti and open sky.
FH III is the largest piece in B.C. Joshua's Frontier series: a sculptural wall hook cut from 100% recycled aluminium and painted by hand in his London studio. The painting changes from piece to piece, colour, posture, detail. No two are the same. That is by design.
Joshua developed the Frontier series during a residency in New York, researching the history of Black cowboys in America, figures whose stories existed but were rarely told. His grandfather was born in Harlem in 1890. The work carries that inheritance into something functional, something that lives in a room and is used every day.
FH III is a statement piece on its own. It also anchors a modular composition with FH I and FH II. Three works from the same series on a single wall.