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Re-source - prospects for contemporary jewellery and object making 14th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia Biennial Conference SPEAKERSPROFESSOR TED SNELL "Good Design – designing tomorrow. " KARL FRITSCH KARL FRITSCH belongs to an international avant-garde that has abandoned the traditional concept of jewelry to explore new avenues. This does not, however, mean simply doing away with conventional jewelry but reviving it, embedding it and approaching it in different ways. "I would like to handle gold the same way as you would plasticine" - is his motto. Karl Fritsch often works with wax. He kneads, presses and bends his jewelry into his desired forms, which then serve as models for working the precious metal versions. Typically, he re-works existing pieces of jewelry, alters them, melts them down so as to create wondrous bulging and knotty, elongated or squashed shapes. This process of treating, shaping and pressing the material is a decisive aspect of his work. Not only does Karl Fritsch not conceal it he also employs it demonstratively as an important aesthetic statement. It is not for nothing that this exhibition of the work process involves reflecting on the production per se - a method recalls his teacher at the academy in Munich: Hermann Junger, for whom "the making" is a central element of his work.
LISA WALKER "Sometimes" LISA WALKER was born in Wellington New Zealand and has been living in Munich, Germany since 2002. This is reactionary work, consciously active with influences from all walks of culture and life. The pieces are often laced with
ELIZABETH TURRELL "Reinterpreting Glass on Metal" ELIZABETH TURRELL is the Senior Research Fellow in Enamel at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where she runs the enamel research programme and the large-scale enamel facility. She is currently creating an International Contemporary Vitreous Enamel Archive, and is involved in a series of public commissions in vitreous enamel, as well as developing personal work and public commission in enamel for visiting artists. One of her long-term commitments has been to promote and raise the profile of enamel. Her aim is to make enamel a more established area of the visual arts by exploring the creative potential of enamel on metal, particularly the possibilities of print in enamel for both small and largescale work.
CYNTHIA COUSENS CYNTHIA COUSENS is a jeweller and lecturer in Material Practices at the University of Brighton, living in the south of England. Her jewellery explores emotional experience reflected through a visual language derived from landscape and materialised through a wide range of media including video, photography, textiles and precious metals. Some of the themes explored have included ephemerality and non-materiality in jewellery, the fragility of the countryside and human condition, and jewellery's role as a communicator and as a non-commodity. Research on the landscape has taken place through residencies at the JamFactory Adelaide, the Welbeck Estate England, UNITEC Auckland and Tainan National College of the Arts Taiwan. Recent exhibitions, such as the retrospective solo Shift, have focussed on making the process of creative development transparent to the audience. Recent theoretical research projects such as: See What Happens! - exploring creative experimentation in materials and Teaching and Learning Through Practice, examine the nature of materials practice and develop pedagogical practice. Cynthia has jewellery in the collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Crafts Council, British Council and National Museums of Scotland amongst others; was a trustee for the Crafts Council 1999-2002; and has lectured extensively in the UK and internationally. http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/cousens
The Waves – installation HELEN BRITTON "Jewellery Life" Originally from Western Australia, HELEN BRITTON now lives and works in Munich. Her work is represented in public collections in Australia and internationally. Munich 2008. I am still roaming around finding things, hunting for and gathering materials, like I've been doing for years. No shores here though, a few river banks and also heaps of junk. Europe: the residue of matter, contemporary and otherwise is exotic and plentiful, piled up in the flea markets, spilling onto the streets out of shops, being broken or discarded and crunched back into the earth for centuries. So from this mass of matter I assemble these collisions of design, these baroque, reduction resistant assemblages, these unruly aesthetic desires. There is a lot of pleasure here, and also a measure ofaggression, seeking its meaning in the present, walking directly out of my lived experience. Making jewellery, I play out tensions and beautiful collisions in a small complex space, building miniature theatrical landscapes and emotional responses to the material world.
DR ORAN CATTS "Growing (Little) Objects – How LIfe Becomes a Raw Material " DR DOROTHY ERICKSON "A Gallop Through History. Gold & Silversmithing in WA" DR RIC SPENCER "Interpersonal Politics (a subversive sunset)" ELISHA BUTTLER "Signs of Change - Designing for Good." BRONWYN GOSS & JOSIE WOWOLLA BOYLE: "Digging, digging" GLENICE LESLEY MATTHEWS "Jewels in the Crown - the rich resources of Western Australia." MAUREEN FAYE-CHAUHIN "Jewels of the East - how intricate geometric pattern from the Middle East has inspired form and content in contemporary practice." MELISSA CAMERON "Examining Connections between architecture and jewellery." STEPHEN GALLAGHER "Reflections through the Elizabethan Eye: contemporary practice and history."
"Transforming Space: The work of Albert Paley." ALISON REID "Jin Ah Jo - re-sourcing through language, translation, form and design." ELIZABETH SHAW "Human Resources - valuing the participative community". DR MARGARET WEGENER "Titanium and Laser Techniques for Jewellery-Making" PATRICIA ANDERSON "The Past is Present" ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DONAL FITZPATRICK "Creativity: the opacity of the real and the transparency of making." Back to top |
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