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25.01.2022 If you're an arachnid adorer like me, this one is for you (the rest of you strange phobics, feel free to look away). This little family of darlings just arrived from @helenbrittonartist and are guaranteed to spin a web around your heart Much love and strength to Helen and all those artists doing it tough in the endless rolling lockdowns in parts of Europe right now. Photo #1 by Dirk Eisel, all others by me.... #helenbritton #spider #arachnid #contemporaryjewellery #artjewelry #vintage #stone #spiderlover See more
24.01.2022 Continuing the skyward theme of last weeks post, one of my all time favourite pieces by Kiko Gianocca - one I can't quite believe is still in the gallery stockroom! Look closely at this piece, so blank and dark but for that faint glitter on the front (imagine it on your best black outfit!) then turn it over to get that small thrill of revelation: there's a celebration happening close to your heart, and you’re the only one that knows. "At the origin was the idea to transfor...m the photographic image taken by someone into the starting point for someone else's imaginary. The brooches have the same dimensions as the original image. The back of the photograph becomes the front of the work, once this part is blackened by the resin, it is erased any further information about what is represented on the photo. The image rests intimately on the body when worn by its owner, almost secretly attached." KG Kiko Gianocca, 'Never been there', brooch, 2014, silver, photograph, resin, 7 x 4.5 x 0.5cm. See more
14.01.2022 Blanche Tilden’s stunning survey opens TOMORROW at Geelong Gallery - get on down! Reposted: We’re excited for you to see our upcoming exhibition, ‘Blanche Tildenripple effect: a 25 year survey’.... Blanche Tilden’s iconic collection of intricate jewellery won’t be ready for you to enjoy until Saturday, but here is a little sneak peek! Pictured here is the incredible ‘Grand Palais (necklace)’, constructed in 2014 and made using flameworked borosilicate glass. This delicate piece will be just one of the masterful works on display in Blanche Tilden’s survey exhibition, so stay tuned for more! Blanche Tildenripple effect: a 25 year survey A Geelong Gallery touring exhibition Touring partners: This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Visions of Australia and the National Collection Institutions Touring and Outreach programs. Exhibition partners: Anonymous donor and Creative Futures Design Fund. Catalogue partner: Gordon Darling Foundation. In the creation of new work, Blanche Tilden was supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council of the Arts. Image: Blanche Tilden ‘Grand Palais (necklace)’ 2014, borosilicate glass and oxidised 925 silver. Collection of Margaret Hancock Davis. Photographer: Grant Hancock. Blanche Tilden.
01.01.2022 Otto Künzli's major 34-piece work ‘Australian Diary’, made in Perth in 2000, has made a welcome return home, now part of the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. "Made during a residency trip to Curtin University, at the invitation of local jeweller and teacher David Walker, the piece traces the movements of a studio-less studio-based practitioner. Made from various found, treated and amended materials, each part of the 34 works is a moment of op...enness to the place he found himself in, captured in the round form of $1 coins (with the exception of a couple larger ones) on a cord. The Art Gallery of WA is thrilled to have this important work return to Western Australia to form part of our collection." Dunja Rmandic, Acting Curator of International Art at AGWA. "I had always been fascinated by the way colleagues in painting and photography especially could combine travel and work. I wanted to do it too after all this time: making jewellery in the Outback sounds dreadful but I wanted to know what it was like. At that same time, the theme for the workshop at Curtin University was found: jewellery as a diary or a diary as jewellery. Pouring what would be experienced each day, reinforced and more immediately put into artistic praxis. Otto Künzli Images: 1,3-7: Samuel Künzli / 2: probably Johannes Kuhnen (1990). See more
