MA Jewellery (University for the Creative Arts)
Year 2: working with found objects.
The original project was going to be working with the camera aperture principle, but a crisis of confidence took me back to looking at something that would restore it a little. I looked at the work undertaken through the exploratory practice in the first part of the degree and reconsidered the experiences with thimbles.
Originally, they held memories as they belonged to my grandmother. There were not many, so I had to resource others. These came without any memories, but some had hallmarks spanning many decades and a couple with over a century. A variety of different ideas were considered and I have looked at many options in the last six months.
I settled on two directions. Resourcing artists and creating caricatures of their art work, focussing on the most well known or those with a personal link. The others related to some degree to things that make up who I am as a person. Some are spiky, unique, playful, have a bit of science fiction, relate to my love of my garden, and even have an element of connecting with others.
Here, though, I am showing the ones going to my final show. These are the ones based on Artists past and present. Creating them made me laugh, and so often spend hours looking at how they would then be shown. The boxes came later, but make the ideas I had come full circle. Exam week starts 12th August 2019. Fingers Crossed ;)
Originally, they held memories as they belonged to my grandmother. There were not many, so I had to resource others. These came without any memories, but some had hallmarks spanning many decades and a couple with over a century. A variety of different ideas were considered and I have looked at many options in the last six months.
I settled on two directions. Resourcing artists and creating caricatures of their art work, focussing on the most well known or those with a personal link. The others related to some degree to things that make up who I am as a person. Some are spiky, unique, playful, have a bit of science fiction, relate to my love of my garden, and even have an element of connecting with others.
Here, though, I am showing the ones going to my final show. These are the ones based on Artists past and present. Creating them made me laugh, and so often spend hours looking at how they would then be shown. The boxes came later, but make the ideas I had come full circle. Exam week starts 12th August 2019. Fingers Crossed ;)
Once upon a Thimble... A Tale of found objects. The pieces below were created for my final project and ended up as part of the final show.