COUP de COEUR : Rana MIKDASHI

Rana Mikdashi

« Born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1973 After Completing her M.Sc. in mathematics in 1997 at the University of Ottawa, Canada, Rana formally look up her interest in jewelry making. She Commenced her training in Ottawa and developed it through an apprenticeship at a silversmith’s workshop in Khan El-Khalili in Cairo, Egypt in 2000. She then pursued her education bu joining the Alchimia School for contemporary Jewelry and Design in Florence, Italy, where she completed the 2nd year programme in 2003. Shortly after, Rana moved to Barcelona, Spain, where she trained and worked for two and half years.
Has held solo exhibitions and paticipated in group exhibitions, in Egypt, Lebanon, Italy and Spain. Currently works from her ownstudio in Beirut, Lebanon.  » (Ariane Hartmann galerie)

Rana Mikdashi – Branch Necklace – Black coral and sterling silver …… ABSOLUT LOVE for this necklace !!!

Rana Mikdashi -Precious Necklace – Ag 925, Fired Enamel (photo Toufic Araman)

Rana Mikdashi- necklace – fired enamel, sterling silver (photo Toufic Araman)

Rana Mikdashi -« whispers » Earrings. Sterling Silver, Fired Enamel

Rana Mikdashi -« Floating » Earrings. Sterling Silver, Fired Enamel

Rana Mikdashi -« Clearing » Earrings. Sterling Silver, Fired Enamel

Rana Mikdashi -« Mashrabeya »  Earrings – Sterling Silver, plated

EXPO ‘Ozay Emert’ – Galleri Sintra, Göteborg (SE)- 7-31 mai 2011

Ozay Emert solo exhibition at Galleri Sintra, Göteborg

Özay Emert draws inspiration from her Turkish cultural heritage. As a starting point she focused on objects used by Sufi dervishes during their meditation. Sufism is a mystical movement that emerged from Islam seeking divine love.
« I have chosen the meditation tools because of their aesthetic value. I think our preoccupation with material rather than spiritual things has made us neglect to appreciate the beauty of religion. »

Özay Emert – brooch: Either seem as you are or be as you seem 2008 Oxidized silver, coral beads, silk thread – (Photos by Johannes Holmberg  )

Özay Emert – brooch: Either seem as you are or be as you seem 2008 Oxidized silver

 

 

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EXPO ‘Mikiko Minewaki, Japan’ – Galleri Hnoss, Göteborg (Sweden) – 7-29 Mai 2011

Gallery Hnoss proudly presents the Japanese jewellery artist Mikiko Minewaki.

Mikiko Minewaki was born in Akita, Japan in 1967 and is currently living and working in Tokyo. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, including at Schmuck jewellery fair in Munich and in the exhibition Contemporary Japanese Jewellery at the Crafts Council Gallery in London.

Mikiko Minewaki is one of the pioneers of the new Japanese jewellery art scene. Untouched by trends, she stood outside the Modernist tendencies in Japan in the 1980s and has instead always been closer to a Japanese craft tradition in which the making process is more important than the concept and theory.

Mikiko Minewaki bases her work on mass produced plastic products that she finds and put together into new forms. In this way, she shows that unique jewellery can come from everyday materials, the invisible objects that surround us. She believes that in every shape and form lies an opportunity. You just have to find it, pick it out and make it your own.

Gallery Hnoss will show Kids Room, a series of jewellery inspired and partly made up of fragments from children’s discarded toys.

The exhibition runs until 29 May

Mikiko Minewaki- ‘toy-camera’ necklace

 

 

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