WENDY RAMSH AW Beginning with her colorful folded-paper jewelry
the movement of objects in space and the challenge
of the 1960s, Wendy Ramshaw became a pioneer
of finding order in complexity. The Orbit series
of bringing “self-assembly”—an idea which had
features necklaces that, over the years, built up
caught on in many areas of postwar design,
and then took away elements; the present lot comes
to jewelry. Ramshaw creates works that are made
at the middle of the series and marks the peak
of parts and sections, “so that the owner can share
of its intricacy. Ramshaw’s ringsets, which she
in the way the piece is worn”. Much of her jewelry,
began creating in the early 1970s, have become
as well as her many large-scale architectural
emblematic of her ever-evolving output.
commissions, use motifs relating to cosmology,