Neckware 10 Catalogue 2013

Neckware 10 Group Jewellery Show 6 – 29 June 2013 Preview Wednesday 5 June

Image: Sharon Fitness, LOOK AT ME: When Jewellery meets People, 2013 This year our guest judge was established jeweller Warwick Freeman.

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1 Cheryl Sills Constructivisation $950 (sterling silver and rubber cord)

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2 Becky Bliss Pentimento Necklace $1,150 (copper, silver, paint, oxidised)

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3 Nadene Carr Necklace, 2013 $380 (copper, powder-coating, electroplating, enamelling and textiles)

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4 Gael Baldock Barbed Wire and Pearl Necklace $240 (cowhide)

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5 Brendon Monson Pulley Pendant #4 $600 (basalt, brass and nylon)

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6 Mieke Roy Brown and Orange $385 (reclaimed wood, wood stain and hand plaited cord)

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7 Jane Dodd BIG PAW $1,420 (Lignum vitae, ebony, sterling silver and cord)

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8 Sarah Walker-Holt Wood Linen Brass, Neckpiece, 2013 $665 (T-tree, vintage linen, domestic implements, brass, tissue paper and acrylic)

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9 Kathryn Yeats Untitled, Neckpiece $550 (Matai, String, paint, found steel and rust)

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10 Rachel Bell Spoon Necklace $300 (cotton, linen, sterling silver, wood- American black walnut)

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11 Cath Dearsley Toast, hay, spinach, parsley, celery, apple, mint and thyme: 22 April 2013 (rabbit poo and silk)

$110

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12 Mandy Flood Surface Disclosure - Vent 2013 $445 (oxidised silver, copper, industrial enamel and thread)

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13 Mia Straka Space Pendant, 2012 $750 (oxidised silver and cord)

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14 Kate Barton Garland $845 (inner-tube, thread and oxidised sterling silver)

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15 Sharon Fitness LOOK AT ME: When Jewellery meets People, Neckpiece, 2013 (merino felt, 7" tablet, 4:51 video loop)

$800

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16 Shelley Norton Breast Plate $870 (knitted and melted plastic)

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17 Sarah Read Distraction Neckpiece #1 NFS (duckling, hammer, faux pearls)

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18 Victoria McIntosh 'Father Unknown' Rosary $980 (burnt wooden peg and beads, stg)

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19 Lynn Kelly Green Necklace $800 (pearls and merino wool)

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20 Moniek Schrijer The Art of Adornment Enhances your Power $1,500 (Manuka wood, enamel, epoxy, sterling silver, brass, bronze, ferrite (magnet), leather and madagascan labradorite)

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21 Sinead Jury Untitled, Necklace $265 (arm knitted cord)

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Neckware 10 5 – 29 June 2013 1 Cheryl Sills Constructivisation

$950

(sterling silver and rubber cord) My work is processed based and has become a three dimensional form of sketching my ideas. I enjoy these processes; making; building and constructing three dimensional objects. With this piece I wanted to enjoy these core stages whilst creating conglomerate structures. It is hard to not over think while on this journey of construction but that is my aim. My focus was to keep the integrity of the construction by not over finishing.

2 Becky Bliss Pentimento Necklace $1,150 (copper, silver, paint, oxidised) I am interested in memory, both literal and reminiscence, and the physical and intellectual responses to it.

I have used the layers of paint to induce those responses.

3 Nadene Carr Necklace, 2013 $380 (copper, powder-coating, electroplating, enamelling and textiles) Handmade and the domestic meet the industrial, technical world that we intertwine our lives with. Pieces of copper cut from behind a disused fridge transform with an age of technique called embellishment. With the art of powder coating, electroplating, enamelling these tubes are glossy beads threaded together with fabric tubing from dance costume fabric. A simple threaded necklace or a whole lot of reused stuff or maybe a piece of contemporary jewellery.

4 Gael Baldock Barbed Wire and Pearl Necklace

$240

(cowhide) Seeking a new life and the opportunities of a new world, my Great Grandparents, William and Mary Ann Knight, where among the first settlers to arrive in Petone. These brave, hard working people left many comforts behind to help form England’s colonial “off-shore farm”. In the process these pioneers developed the “Kiwi can do” attitude that has given New Zealand a reputation of resourceful, creative inventors and lateral thinkers. This “No 8 wire” thinking uses simple materials and methods to solve complex problems and has resulted in Kiwi inventors designing the electric fence and the disposable syringe and splitting the atom.

I draw upon my childhood as a townie surrounded by rural Taranaki, the heart of dairy country and the backbone of our economy and the mid 1970’s Taranaki had an oil boom and the black gold flowed. I was contracted from an architectural office to work in the oil industry. My formal training is in Architecture and I have found this to be the leading edge of New Zealand economy in how the building industry is affected by world economy. My designs draw

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on these aspects.

I have created a fragile leather lace from cowhide and my intricately computer generated drawings for laser cutting to form this backbone. Barbed wire, representing the Architecture of farming and the fragility of New Zealand as a primary producer in the world economy, is interwoven with black pearls, representing the wealth from the sea, which are also reminiscent of kowhai seed pods under their golden blooms.

5 Brendon Monson Pulley Pendant #4

$600

(basalt, brass and nylon) This pendant is from my current series of work (The Colonial Machine) which explores the challenges of our bicultural politics. I believe jewellery is one of the most socially embedded art practices, therefore lending itself to strengthening communities. The use of stone and metal brings together materials from both settler and Maori cultures. I have used pulleys in my jewellery as it provides a playfulness at the same time linking it to early European industries; as much as the stone does to pre-European technology.

6 Mieke Roy Brown and Orange

$385

(reclaimed wood, wood stain and hand plaited cord) Ordinary objects inspire and are the material for my work. Deconstructed and reconstructed, I make new forms that have a new function as adornment.

7 Jane Dodd BIG PAW (Lignum vitae, ebony, sterling silver and cord) A gentle reminder that we are not necessarily the top of the food chain.

$1,420

8 Sarah Walker-Holt Wood Linen Brass, Neckpiece, 2013 $665 (T-tree, vintage linen, domestic implements, brass, tissue paper and acrylic) Objects are created with a function in mind, but is this their sole reason for existing? If it does something other than what is intended, what is it? Is this ambiguity its resonating strength? Does it impair the original purpose or enhance it? Does it shift how we engage with it?

Evoke.

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9 Kathryn Yeats Untitled, Neckpiece $550 (Matai, String, paint, found steel and rust) I am interested in time, in the memory of spaces - weathering, the marks left by people, rusting and deterioration all creating a narrative of a particular time and place, a story of population and neglect. A narrative of identity around particular places which feel like home, the colours, structures and physicality of those spaces.

Transient and fragile materials attract me and they feel very precious to me.

Currently I am enjoying building complex structures in wood which reveal one face to the world while holding secrets for the wearer.

10 Rachel Bell Spoon Necklace $300 (cotton, linen, sterling silver, wood- American black walnut) During my Masters of Design I developed a palette and repertoire of materials that I continue to explore and build upon in current work. This includes the combination of natural and traditionally precious materials in jewellery forms, and an investigation of domestic objects and their loaded meanings.

The Spoon Necklaces are carved into forms that are familiar ones, but also hint at some other use or purpose once in the context of jewellery. I enjoy that when the form is re-framed it can become mystical or talismanic, allowing the viewer to wonder as to its use. The shape also has undeniable elements of the belly, the bowl, of a vessel and an innate nurturing quality.

11 Cath Dearsley Toast, hay, spinach, parsley, celery, apple, mint and thyme: 22 April 2013 $110 (rabbit poo and silk) The qualities of materials are what makers are drawn to. Each and every material expresses and shares something in its own unique way.

My rabbit has appeared in my work in various guises for nearly a decade. I am besotted by him. His everyday 'baubles' are an incidental part of the life we share. I have 'cloaked' them in manmade materials, smothered and hidden them in my work. It has taken me time to muster the courage to bring you this humble material in its naked form. I find his little herbivore droppings wholly inoffensive. Like old raisins you might find under the couch.

Rabbits are such maligned creatures. They are uncelebrated for their loveliness. Our species fails spectacularly to appreciate the natural world as we plunder through it. Here I celebrate the rabbit, even his poo is precious.

12 Mandy Flood Surface Disclosure - Vent 2013 (oxidised silver, copper, industrial enamel and thread) The forsaken breathing grilles of the Unitec campus were the direct inspiration for this piece.

$445

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It is their surface attributes that encourage my exploration with enamel; through a series of firings this piece explores a beauty found from age and use. This approach to enamelling embraces an unpredictability, similar to that of times alteration.

No two pieces will ever be the same. The process values a transient beauty that should be prized and not lamented.

The piece will alter with time and wear, this I find fascinating particularly as the maker no longer has a part in.

13 Mia Straka Space Pendant, 2012 $750 (oxidised silver and cord) This pendant continues my exploration into forms for containment and the dynamics between interior/exterior space, public versus private, restriction and protection. References to traditional crafts are implicit in the materials used, dyed muka and silver.

14 Kate Barton Garland $845 (inner-tube, thread and oxidised sterling silver) I went to my local repair shop to see what my skills could do for the irreparable. My small sewing scissors chirruped in my fingers as I cut feathers from the rubber. Breaking its skin and mine a little.

I like the blackness of this material. This chromatic restriction bends the focus towards its texture and silhouette. It is rich in darker matters.

15 Sharon Fitness LOOK AT ME: When Jewellery meets People, Neckpiece, 2013 $800 (merino felt, 7" tablet, 4:51 video loop) I have been making jewellery that interacts with people for some time, most recently enveloping a spy camera to record the people it meets.

I felt the need to share the warmth and friendliness that jewellery can bring.

16 Shelley Norton Breast Plate

$870

(knitted and melted plastic) plastic - skin of gift breastplate - reconstituted petrochemical cement inert circulatory web heart wrapping

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17 Sarah Read Distraction Neckpiece #1

NFS

(duckling, hammer, faux pearls) Bad Hair Day? Step out with confidence in a Distraction Neckpiece

18 Victoria McIntosh 'Father Unknown' Rosary (burnt wooden peg and beads, stg) It’s a curious thing how even an absence can leave a stain.

$980

19 Lynn Kelly Green Necklace

$800

(pearls and merino wool) "In 2012 Lynn was awarded the Wild Creations residency; a collaboration between the Department of Conservation and Creative New Zealand. This offered her the opportunity to spend time in Bannockburn, Central Otago where she was inspired by the rich landscape.

This necklace began from examining the vegetable sheep, a plant from the high country in this area."

20 Moniek Schrijer The Art of Adornment Enhances your Power (Manuka wood, enamel, epoxy, sterling silver, brass, bronze, ferrite (magnet), leather and madagascan labradorite)

$1,500

21 Sinead Jury Untitled, Necklace $265 (arm knitted cord) Often when learning something new, the first attempt doesn't always go to plan but can often form a superior outcome to the intended result. After this first arm knitting I was always striving to reach this point once more. This piece was that special moment for me, never to be recreated again.

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