Exhibition
Counterpoint
The artists in COUNTERPOINT have created works that emphasise, clarify and contextualise their practice by contrasting or juxtaposing different elements.
Event Details
Opening
Thursday 28 October 2020, 6:00pm
Date
Wednesday 3 – Saturday 20 November 2021
Location
Stala Contemporary
12 Cleaver Street, West Perth
Cost
Free Entry
Like a musician who combines different melodic lines to generate new relationships, these visual artists use their technical skills as metalsmiths to contrast one visual element with another. Encompassing a range of opportunities to juxtapose traditional ideas, materials and techniques with contemporary interpretations, inventions, and re-imaginings each artist has embraced the theme as a catalyst to re-energise their practice. Developed from a theme of contrariety in balance, each artist has created works that emphasise or clarify their intent by contrasting or juxtaposing different elements. Curated by Professor Ted Snell, from work by the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group WA, COUNTERPOINT groups their approaches into a dynamic exploration of contrapuntal experimentation.
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Selected Artworks
Tineke Van der Eecken, Watermelon Pendant, Tourmaline crystal slice and beads, gold filled wire, silver chain, 65 x 50 x 5mm, chain 55 cm, 2021. Photo by Yasmin Studio
Blandine Halle. The lucky country no. 1, copper, jarrah, balga tree sap, 23kt gold foil, dune spinifex, beached broken ceramic, 150 x 50 x 15mm
Brenda Ridgewell. Claimed space armband, sterling silver, 9ct yellow gold, diamond, 165 x 80 x 15mm
Katrina Virgona. Impossible pins series, wool and hair felted and stitched on to wire, 280 x 80 25mm, and 320 x 190 x 30mm, and 280 x 90 x 30mm, Photography Yasmin Studio
Sultana Shamshi, The Ceremonial neckpiece for the Zamorin of Calicut, lave beads, British, Dutch and Portuguese colonial coins, coral beads, silk, copper and sterling silver, 590 x 200 x 5mm, Photography Yasmin Studio
Barbara Cotter, Bone study: right metacarpal 2, natural size, Sterling silver, 75 x 15 x 11mm, Photography Yasmin Studio
Robin Wells, Ark, oxidised sterling silver, 25 x 50 x 20mm, Photography Yasmin Studio
Aaron Seymour, Nelumbo nucifera earrings, sterling silver, gold vermeil, lemon citrine, blue sapphires, 40 x 26 x 8mm, photography by Yasmin Studio
Lynndy Young
Exhibiting Artists
Artists
Kadri Alekand, Max Ball, Barbara Cotter, Annette Ellson, Blandine Halle, Hannah Jago, Louise Gore Langton, Bethamy Linton, Jill Parnell, Felicity Peters, Brenda Ridgewell, Aaron Seymour, Sultana Shamshi, Jacquie Sprogoe, Claire Townsend, Tineke Van der Eecken, Katrina Virgona, Robin Wells, Alister Yiap, Lynndy Young
Event Details
Opening Night
Wednesday 3 November, 6 - 8pm
Date
Wednesday 3 – Saturday 20 November 2021
Location
Stala Contemporary
12 Cleaver Street, West Perth
Cost
Free Entry
Artists
Kadri Alekand, Max Ball, Barbara Cotter, Annette Ellson, Blandine Halle, Hannah Jago, Louise Gore Langton, Bethamy Linton, Jill Parnell, Felicity Peters, Brenda Ridgewell, Aaron Seymour, Sultana Shamshi, Jacquie Sprogoe, Claire Townsend, Tineke Van der Eecken, Katrina Virgona, Robin Wells, Alister Yiap, Lynndy Young
