Raewyn Walsh - The Shell Project 2020

Raewyn Walsh The Shell Project 9 April – 30 April 2020

Shell pendant #1 (green square) found shell, paint, resin W82mm x H73mm

$260

Shell Pendant #2 (red diamond) found shell, paint, resin W73mm x H64mm

$260

Shell Pendant #3 (red/black square) found shell, paint, resin W81mm x H70mm

$260

Shell Pendant #4 (black/green square) found shell, paint, resin W71 x H62mm

$260

Shell Pendant #5 (olive green square) found shell, paint, resin W71mm x H65mm

$260

Shell Pendant #6 (black square) found shell, paint, resin W66mm x H58mm

$260

Shell Brooch #1 (green diamond) found shell, paint, resin W74mm x H71mm

$260

Shell Brooch #2 (red/beige square) found shell, paint, resin W75mm x H69mm

$260

Shell Brooch #3 (red/green diamond) found shell, paint, resin W74mm x H62mm

$260

Shell Brooch #4 (green/beige triangle) found shell, paint, resin W74mm x H65mm

$260

Shell Brooch #5 (red/mustard square) found shell, paint, resin W78mm x H67mm

$260

Shell Brooch #6 (green/beige diamond) found shell, paint, resin W72mm x H63mm

$260

Shell Brooch #7 (green/beige square) found shell, paint, resin W66mm x H58mm

$260

Shell Brooch #8 (black triangle) found shell, paint, resin W74mm x H66mm

$260

In this series of brooches and pendants, Raewyn Walsh gives in to the human urge to intervene on nature. ‘…this group of shells tell the story of gathering, collecting and, in the end, interruption. When we collect we remove items from circulation. The purpose of these items then changes, becoming human-centric and in the service of our needs and wants. I collected these shells from daily walks on Muriwai Beach, and then I intervened even further.

These geometric markings mask the organic systems of nature into an ordered freeze frame. A tessellated moment where there are no gaps or overlays. It never lasts, but it is what we do.’ -Raewyn Walsh, 2019 ‘The jewellery I make investigates the attachments we have to physical things. I am interested in the ideas that surround the collection, possession, ownership and function, and the subsequent associations these themes have with time and memory.’

Raewyn Walsh graduated from Unitec with a Bachelor of Design (Honours) in 2009. Raewyn was the 2011 prize winner of the Objective Art Awards. Raewyn has also participated in the mentoring project HANDSHAKE set up by Peter Deckers, in HANDSHAKE 2 in 2016 when Raewyn was mentored by Henriette Schuster, and in HANDSHAKE 3 in 2017. Raewyn has work held in the collections of The James Wallace Arts Trust and Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne.