Schmuck 2013 – EXPO ‘Things I see….. Helen Britton’ – Neues Museum Nuremberg (DE) – 7 Fevr.-28 Avril 2013

Die Neue Sammlung/ Neues Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg.
Things I see….. Helen Britton,

The exhibition includes a complete new body of work for the show, alongside a presentation of the industrial series in a custom built showcase. In the second room there is a selection out of her archive dating back to 1991, along with sketchbooks, photos and films.

Talk with the artist in the exhibition: Helen Britton
Nuremberg | 07 March, 2013, 14:00

Helen Britton brooch

… Love, wealth and sentimentality, humor, wisdom, violence and hope – these are the paradox emotions and things typical of everyday life that Munich-based but Australian born Helen Britton (born 1966) teases out and explores in her jewelry objects. She combines semi-finished products in the jewelry industry and found objects from flea markets with components and structures she makes herself from metal to create something completely new. “I am building in a way a private world that accepts no compromises,” is how Helen Britton herself describes her work.
From the outset, the graduate in fine art in Britton draws the jewelry objects. Parallel, independent analyses of her artistic output arise, morph into pictograms, gaining the status of mnemonic symbols.

Helen Britton, Brooch « 4 Parts Orange », 2000 | Photo: Die Neue Sammlung (Alexander Laurenzo)
Helen Britton brooch

Helen Britton Brooch: Untitled 2008  Silver, glas, paint  Photo: Helen Britton

Helen Britton  Necklace: Untitled 2012  Silver, plastic  Photo: Dirk Eisel

Helen Britton  Necklace: Untitled 2012  Silver, plastic  detail (at « Awkward Beauty » exhibition)

Helen Britton – from the Industrial series

 

 

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