EXPO ‘David Neale & Emma Price’ – Gallery Funaki, Melbourne (AU) – 10 Aout-4 Sept. 2010

Highly respected Melbourne jeweller David Neale presents new pieces alongside Emma Price, who will be showing her first significant body of work at Gallery Funaki. Please join us for the opening on Tuesday, August 10 from 6-8pm

Highly respected Melbourne jeweller David Neale presents new pieces alongside Emma Price, who will be showing her first significant body of work at Gallery Funaki. Please join us for the opening on Tuesday, August 10 from 6-8pm.

David Neale’s intriguing folded forms, borne of his sensitive treatment of metal sheeting using texture and paint, have earned him a significant reputation both in Australia and overseas. His recent work shows a shift away from botanical influences, towards more abstract and expressive forms. There is a bold sense of the painterly in these works, as Neale’s powdery, textured colours become a dominant focus.

 

Emma Price completed her Masters of Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT in 2005 before spending a year at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. Her finely balanced structures are constructed from painstakingly drawn down tubing in gold, brass, silver and copper. The shifting, architectonic forms of her neckpieces seem to dance against the body.

 

Left: Emma Price, pendant 2009 / silver, gold, brass, copper – Right: David Neale, Brooch 2009 / silver, paint

Emma Price, pendant 2010  – neckpiece, 2010

David Neale, Brooch 2010

 

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Melbourne, Victoria
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