Exhibition online is a presentation platform for contextualising jewellery ideas and processes.
There are a few known ways of exhibiting contemporary jewellery:
Wearing on the body (an exhibition platform since prehistoric times), and laying in cabinets/plinths/drawers or hanging in space, or on a wall.
This online presentation is not emulating any of those but instead attempt to break away from it.
Sub to Surface by Mia Straka
Daily data and doodlings bubble to the surface, becoming the source for new jewellery works.
selected exercise from the ON-E workshop of Estella Saez
GATES / GATEWAYS by Simon Swale
Think of a suburban gate, a humble gate. Think through it. See its shadow stretched out upon the ground, as powerful as the gate that cast it. Walk through it. Pick it up and place it upon yourself. Become it.
Maori Proverb:
“Ko ia kāhore nei i rapu, tē ktea”
S/he who does not seek will not find
Playlist for Earrings was initially created as a 9-day online Instagram and Spotify look & listen earring exhibition.
Each earring and illustration links to its own particular song. The physical manifestation of the exhibition was created at Salt Gallery in November 2018.
Playlist for Earrings by Katie Pascoe
Click this link to see the exhibition images
Click this link to hear the playlist
LATENT by Nik Hanton
For the final group show of Handshake 4 I created a series of brooches using resin and latex.
Latex is an impermanent material to use in the making of jewellery. It has a limited lifespan and deteriorates over time. This means that the work too changes- its personality and appearance alters.
The pieces in this series were made in response to the Dual Process theory. This theory refers to the contrasting ways in which we approach the world. One conscious (thought). One automatic (feeling). The automatic is difficult to bend to our will, but the conscious can be altered with persuasion.
The original works in this series have now taken on their new form, four months later, with the deterioration of the material. The first “Conscious” part of the Dual Process series has now become the second part. The “Automatic” series, entitled “Latent”
The new series that has developed reveals the latent qualities of the material and the pieces.
Trash Diving & Tip Larking
Three Wellington jewellers plunder the treasures of TRASH PALACE
Protagonists: Vivien Atkinson, Nadine Smith, and Caroline Thomas
BMONNZ by Brendon Monson
‘History is a cyclic poem written by time
upon the memories of man’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley