An artist working in metal.

David Rosborough has spent his working life shaping steel. For decades that meant the commercial trade — industrial fabrication, the scale and discipline of jobs that have to last. The hand and the eye were trained there.
What has changed, more recently, is the work itself. The same craft is now turned toward the private and the sculptural: a garden gate drawn around the climbing leaves of a real garden, a continuous stainless handrail winding a concrete staircase, a copper sink raised by hand from sheet, large aluminium and chrome flowers built for a setting.
Every piece is a commission, made by one pair of hands — drawing, cutting, forging, welding, finishing. No production line, no apprentice doing the polishing. That is slower, and it is the point.
The workshop is on the Causeway Coast and Glens of Co. Antrim — a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and a landscape that finds its way into the work. Commissions travel from there across Ireland and, on request, further.
As seen on
BBC One — The One Show

Featured live from the Giant’s Causeway, presenting David O’Doherty with a piece of metal art on the basalt columns themselves — a fitting setting for work drawn from this coast.
Causeway Coast and Glens · Northern Ireland