Rae Ripple • Artist • Builder • Founder
Work Built By Hand. A Life Built The Same Way.
Rae Ripple is a multidisciplinary artist, builder, television personality, author and founder creating across metal, glass, automotive design, public art and light.
Built From Curiosity
I Make What I Cannot Stop Imagining.
Before there was a television show, a public sculpture, or a car cut into lace, there was a woman with an idea and no map.
I learned to weld because I had a sculpture in my head and no way to make it real. I Googled how to weld, picked up the tools, and began. That choice became a career built through curiosity, refusal, and a willingness to keep learning in public.
Metal taught me how to trust my hands. Cars gave me a moving canvas. Glass is teaching me how to work with light. The material changes, but the instinct does not.
I build what I cannot stop imagining.
Selected Work
One Pair Of Hands. No Single Medium.
The work moves between steel, glass, machines, light and storytelling. Every piece begins the same way, with a question and the willingness to find out.
Metal + Public Art
Large scale sculpture, architectural work and public pieces built to hold meaning.
Glass + Light
Stained and fused glass carried into lighting, sculpture and new ways of seeing.
Automotive + Machines
Cars and motorcycles transformed into moving sculpture through steel, story and detail.
Film + Storytelling
Television, documentary work, partnerships and honest stories about making a life.
The Current Chapter
The Work Is Moving
Metal Led Me Here.
After years of shaping steel, plasma cutting cars and building on a public scale, I followed a new pull into stained glass and light. The five foot flame chandelier and the Bare Metal Bel Air are not departures from the work that came before them. They are proof that the work can keep becoming.
Film, Television + Press
The Work Has Been Built In Public.
From the shop floor to television, commercial work, documentaries and print, every feature has carried the same thing forward: the belief that making can change the person doing it.
Ripple, The Documentary
A Story About Salvaging A Life.
Ripple follows the landmarks of a life nearly lost and the courage, children, art and stubborn hope that helped rebuild it. It is not a portrait of tragedy. It is a record of what can happen when survival becomes creation.
Explore The FilmPartnerships
Good Work Is Rarely Built Alone.
These are the companies and craftspeople who have put tools, trust, opportunity and shared work behind the journey.
“Perhaps I owe plasma cutting to flowers. Because I must have flowers, always and always.”Rae Ripple
A Life In Motion
The Work Has Taken Me Places I Never Planned.
Through shops, roads, racetracks, film sets, fields and a few places I never expected, the hands and the heart stayed the same.
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Start The Conversation
Have Something Worth Building?
Commissions, collaborations, speaking, television, brand partnerships, or a good idea that does not fit neatly in a box. Tell me what you are thinking.