'What I saw when I went away'. New work by Katherine Bowman
The below rings make up one of the groups of work made for my exhibition
What I saw when I went away
, on at
until the 24th December 2015.
All photos by Andrew Barcham
A group of rings
A group of rings made for an exhibition at
in 2012.
I just came across these images and it reminded me how much I loved making these rings.
Texture / light
A curtain made from cotton linings from old kimonos.
This was originally a banner I made, with help from friends, for an exhibition many years ago.
Exhibition opening tonight
The opening of my exhibition, a found thing (the consolation of consolations) is tonight from 6 - 8pm at e.g.etal.
I hope that you will be able to join us to celebrate this new work.
The exhibition is on until Saturday 29 September 2012.
a found thing (the consolation of consolations)
Work in progress, a found thing (the consolation of consolations)
... every object transforms something
The System of
Objects, Jean Baudrillard p.1
'For it is invariably oneself that one
collects'
The System of
Collecting, Jean Baudrillard;The Cultures of Collecting, ed John Elsner and Roger
Cardinal p.12
a found thing (the consolation of consolations)
For the last couple of months I have been working on a new body of work which I will exhibit at e.g.etal in September.
This will be my first solo exhibition of jewellery in Melbourne.
The only other solo jewellery exhibition I have had was at Pablo Fanque in Sydney.
This exhibition was called small things and was in 2008.
This new body of work follows on from research I started after I finished my Masters on the significance of objects in society. Or, the significance of jewellery in daily life. In response to this, I have made a collection of jewellery pieces.
More information to follow.
a found thing (the consolation of
consolations)
September 17 – 29 September 2012
167 downstairs Flinders
Lane
Melbourne 3000
this image from e.g.etal
Jewellery happenings in Mebourne
There is a lot going on in the Melbourne jewellery world at the moment.
Tonight five exhibitions open:
1. Wonderenamel
Group show of enamel works curated by Dr. Kirsten Hayden.
2. Doko He Iku (where is it going)
a solo show by Naoko Inuzuka
2. Doko He Iku (where is it going)
a solo show by Naoko Inuzuka
3. Urbanhabits
a solo show by Bin Dixon-Ward
All three shows are on from 31st July to the 10th August 2012 at First Site Gallery at RMIT
4. At Pieces of Eight, David Neale has a solo exhibition opening, Love Letters.
31 July – 1 September 2012
5. And at Gallery Funaki, up the road is Wearable Cities by Blanche Tilden
July 31 to
August 25 2012
Amazing!
Also, this Thursday Warwick Freeman will give a lecture at RMIT:
And on Friday RMIT Gold and Silversmithing will present a seminar Unexpected Pleasures: Exposed.
An event not to missed!
Also, this Thursday Warwick Freeman will give a lecture at RMIT:
An Unexpected Pleasure from 5pm – 6pm
Thursday August 2nd 2012
RMIT University City Campus
Building 10
(Swanston St)
An event not to missed!
And Northcity4 has a busy month in August, will fill you in on that next.
New work by Anna Davern
Anna Davern has a new exhibition opening in Sydney this coming week.
It is at Studio 20/17 and runs from 7 - 25 February 2012.
from Studio 20/17
I have been lucky enough to see this work in progress.
This is a quiet and powerful body of work.
Quiet, because the colours are subdued and considered. There are no extraneous details to take away from the subject matter and the materials. Both are left to speak for themselves.
Anna will be in Sydney for the opening and the artist talk. Details can be found here
all images by Anna Davern
The Davernator better get back to Melbourne tout sweet, as Northcity4 needs her.
It is at Studio 20/17 and runs from 7 - 25 February 2012.
If I was in Sydney this is where I would be.
Gold and Steel are materials that are intrinsically tied to stories of our culture and how we define ourselves. Our cultural myths abound with references to gold and steel: Our egalitarian heritage that can be tied back to the Gold Rush and it’s opportunities for all, and the steel of Ned Kelly’s armour which represents our distrust of authority. The landscape from which these materials originate, is a defining element of our identity, from the iron-oxide red of the centre to the golden sands of its edges.
Anna has long been interested in the concept of Australian identity and the role jewellery has to play in the expression of this identity. Recent investigations into the role of landscape in the definition of our identity have taken her work off the body and onto the wall. With this new work, Anna plans to use of the materials of gold and steel to put the landscape onto the body.
from Studio 20/17
I have been lucky enough to see this work in progress.
This is a quiet and powerful body of work.
Quiet, because the colours are subdued and considered. There are no extraneous details to take away from the subject matter and the materials. Both are left to speak for themselves.
Anna will be in Sydney for the opening and the artist talk. Details can be found here
all images by Anna Davern
The Davernator better get back to Melbourne tout sweet, as Northcity4 needs her.
The Craft Blog
Craft Victoria has a new blog:
The Craft Blog
It looks pretty exciting. There is a lot to see and be inspired by.
Image from Craft Victoria
Oh, and there is a great exhibition on at the moment by Kirsten Perry
The Craft Blog
It looks pretty exciting. There is a lot to see and be inspired by.
Image from Craft Victoria
Oh, and there is a great exhibition on at the moment by Kirsten Perry
Forces of Nature
Forces of Nature, an exhibition curated by Melissa Keys, opened in Washington at the Embassy of Australia Gallery this week.
Forces of Nature features work by Tessa Blazey, Julie Blyfield, Sarah Elson, Aunti Corrie Fullard, Marian Hosking, Nicky Hepburn & IIka White, Jeanette James, Sue Kneebone, Carlier Makigawa, Aubrey Tigan, Catherine Truman and myself.
This is the work I sent to this exhibition.
Rockpool ring 2011
Sterling silver, Australian natural blue sapphires, chrome tourmalines
Recollection ring 2011
Sterling silver, Australian blue sapphires, smoky quartz
Leaf seed pod ring 2011
Sterling silver, Australian blue sapphires, purple sapphire, pink Australian sapphire
Colony pendant 2011
Sterling silver, enamel paint
Width of pendant – 55mm
Height of pendant – 80mm
Journey pendant 2011
Sterling silver, enamel paint
Width of pendant – 90mm
Height of pendant – 45mm
Marengo beach pendant 2011
Sterling silver, enamel paint
Width of pendant – 55mm
Height of pendant – 75mm
the exhibition is on until February 2012
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RMIT 2011
this opened yesterday!
Work Hardened
RMIT 1st and 2nd year Gold & Silversmithing students
Spill Art Space, Level 4, 175 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
16th-26th November
It was Like a Fever
RMIT Gold and Silversmithing
23 November - 4 December 2011
No Vacancy Gallery
34 – 40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne
Vicki Mason : Botanical Fictions
new work by Vicki Mason, Botanical Fictions, opens at e.g.etal tonight.
“Plants have the potential to tell stories about our lives and the societies we live in.”
Vicki is enthralled by plants as subject matter and the potential they have to tell stories about our lives and the societies we live in. Her new series of works, ‘Botanical Fictions’, feature an ornamental vocabulary of plant-based forms that Vicki developed over the period of her recent study.
The works combine mixtures of materials and processes. Remnant plastics from the stationery industry are used alongside thread and various metals to create jewellery. Low-tech domestic craft processes and various textile and metal processes/techniques (both hand-fabrication and industrial processes) have been mixed in this series. The traditionally clear identities and conceptual frameworks often assigned to these materials or techniques are blurred and questioned.
The works combine mixtures of materials and processes. Remnant plastics from the stationery industry are used alongside thread and various metals to create jewellery. Low-tech domestic craft processes and various textile and metal processes/techniques (both hand-fabrication and industrial processes) have been mixed in this series. The traditionally clear identities and conceptual frameworks often assigned to these materials or techniques are blurred and questioned.
text and image from e.g.etal
opening night: Thursday 3 November, 6pm - 8pm
e.g.etal, 167 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
exhibition dates: Monday 31 October - Tuesday 15 November 2011
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I have just finished 6 works which are on their way to Washington to an exhibition that I am in.
This will be the first time that I have shown work in America.
I will post images of the work and information on the exhibition shortly
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Tinker Tailor Soldier exhibition
image by artisan
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor’ is an exhibition on at the moment at artisan in Queensland. It opened last month in Brisbane and is a touring exhibition - until 2013!
The exhibition was curated by Kirsten Fitzpatrick
The exhibition was curated by Kirsten Fitzpatrick
This exhibition contains 100 brooches by 100 Australian jewellers, celebrating the lives of 100 significant women in this country’s history.
Above is an image of my brooch that I made for this exhibition.
The woman that I was given was Agnes Buntine (1822 - 1896)
artisan asked a number of questions in relation to the brooch produced. Here are my responses:
The Australian woman I had was Agnes Buntine c.1822-1896, a pastoralist and bullocky. After researching her history I initially thought that the best way to represent her was with quite a large brooch, very simple and graphic. The more I thought about her, the more my initial design concept changed. I felt that the easy interpretation of this strong and unconventional woman would be to use industrial/raw materials such as steel and wood, in a big bold brooch.
Then I thought that even though Agnes led an unconventional life, she was born in Scotland in the 1800s and would have been raised with all the expectations that a woman was to have within that era. So even though she ended up running bullock teams and working within male dominated trades, she was still a woman of a particular era.
I think that a woman such as Agnes Buntine would possibly have had small keepsakes that were precious to her. So my brooch design echoes Victorian jewellery, smaller in scale, with intricate details. The metal details on the side of the brooch reference early Australian gold jewellery which often had bouquets of local flowers.
I deliberately ' aged' the metal, parts are worn through, so that the brooch is not 'perfect'; that through wear the brooch may have changed. That there was a history to the brooch.
I have engraved scroll patterns around the frame of the brooch, again referencing the era that Agnes lived in. Around the bezel holding the wood, I engraved the warp and weft of fabric, a motif that I frequently used referring to the nature of materials to tell a story.
I wanted there to be a slight discomfort between the bezel holding the wood and the rest of the brooch as the different roles that Agnes Buntine would have had were often in conflict with each other; that as a wife and mother, a bullocky and pastoralist.
Explain any particular significance of materials used if applicable
materials used in the brooch:
sterling silver, citrines, wood, enamel paint, wood, stainless steel
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
30 September - 12 November 2011
artisan
381 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley, QLD
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Locutions ( the loved object)
My exhibition, Locutions ( the loved object), closes this Saturday.
Craft Victoria have put images of the exhibition on the website, you can see them here
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Craft Victoria have put images of the exhibition on the website, you can see them here
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Locutions ( the loved object)
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thank you to Melbourne Jeweller and clog for writing on my exhibition
image from clog
Locutions ( the loved object) is on until 15th October
I hope to have more installation images next week
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