EXPO ‘The Nature of Memory’ – Bilk Gallery, Canberra (AU) – 31 Mai-5 Juill. 2013

The Nature of Memory : an exhibition of jewellery, objects and photographs relating to the fragility of memory by Jess Dare – Friday 31 May until 5 July 2013 – Bilk Gallery -

Jess Dare – Xylem Neckpiece - powder coated brass, 2013 – from the Nature of Memory exhibition

Jess Dare  Brooches  Xylem Series 2013  White powder coated brass and sterling silver, stainless steel  photograph by Grant Hancock

Jess Dare  Brooches : Drawn Epicormic Series 2013  White powder coated brass and copper, stainless steel, sterling silver, lamp work glass  photograph by Grant Hancock

 

 

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Manuka ACT 2603
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EXPO ‘Jess Dare: The Nature of Memory’ – Studio 20/17, Waterloo (Australia) – 2-20 Avril 2013

Jess Dare: The Nature of Memory – Jewellery & Objects

 (Lampwork glass detail)

Jess Dare’s exhibition, ‘The Nature of Memory’ explores the fragility of memory through a series of delicate glass plant specimens. Her interest in our innate human desire to preserve the natural world is realized throughought this series of miniatures and wearable objects. “In this exhibition I aim to express the ephemeral nature of memory through the fragility of glass and nature itself.”
Dare’s work references the idea that life, like memory is fleeting and fragile. She laments that the beauty and detail is often compromised when trying to replicate the intricacies of natural forms, with the exception of the Blaschka’s hyper-realistic glass models in The Natural History Museum at Harvard University. These exceptional pieces of glasswork have strongly influenced Jess Dare’s practice to date and she feels a connection within this current series to the documentary detail of these botanical models.
The series itself is composed of objects and wearable items, miniature glass succulent forms that are silicon moulded and cast in silver; transforming the delicate, fragile glass with its lustrous colour into sturdy, cold and almost lifeless silver replicas. Jess Dare explores the botany of the mind, accentuating the transience of memory through her intricate and fantastical miniatures.

 Jess Dare Brooches: Drawn Epicormic Series 2013 White powder coated brass and copper, stainless steel, sterling silver, lamp work glass photo Grant Hancock

Jess Dare  Brooches: Xylem Series 2013  White powder coated brass and sterling silver, stainless steel  photograph by Grant Hancock

Jess Dare  Neckpiece: Xylem 2013  White powder coated brass, stainless steel  photograph by Grant Hancock

 

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NSW 2017 – Waterloo
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EXPO ‘Bilk on Tour – Australian jewellery’ – Incinerator Gallery, Victoria (AU) – 15 Sept.-21 Oct. 2012

Bilk on Tour – Australian jewellery

 

A touring exhibition from Canberra featuring jewellery, glass and metal.

Bilk on Tour is an exhibition curated by designer and teacher Helen Aitken-Kuhnen of Bilk Gallery  in Canberra, surveying the field of Australian jewellery design and metal-smithing, featuring over 30 artists.  It will travel to the
Incinerator Art Space in Willoughby, Sydney (31 Oct 2012-25 Nov 2012), after the exhibition at the Incinerator Gallery.

(Jill Hermans brooch)

ARTISTS:  Alice Potter — Alison Jackson — Carlier Makigawa — Christopher Robertson — Cinnamon Lee — Dore Stockhausen — Eliza Gregerson — Eugenie Keefer Bell — Sophia Emmett — Helen Aitken-Kuhnen — Janice Vitkovsky – Jess Dare – Jill Hermans — Johannes Kuhnen — Kath Inglis — Kirstie Rea — Lan Nguyen-Hoan — Marcus Foley — Mark Edgoose — Mark Vaarwerk — Mel Douglas — Tanja Taglietti — Mio Kuhnen — Mel George — Melissa Cameron — Michelle Taylor — Nicholas Bastin — Clare Belfrage — Tom Rowney — Sarah Rothe — Scott Chaseling — Klaus Moje — Simon Cottrell — Sarah Murphy — Ximena Natanya Briceño — Sue Lorraine — Vicki Mason — Robert Foster.

Melissa Cameron. Ray, 2012. Stainless steel, vitreous enamel, 925 silver fixings.

Mark Vaarwerk – brooch orange 53mm materials: expanded polystyrene food box, polystyrene vacuum cleaner casing, permanent marker ink, stainless

Carlier Makigawa Brooch 2011  Oxidised silver, coral

Sue Lorraine  Beetle  Brooch 2012  heat coloured mild steel, vinyl record

Michelle Taylor, « Upon the horizon » brooch

Marcus Foley -  Organic Geometry 2012 – yellow & white gold, zircon

Jess Dare – « Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor » brooch – 2011 – Lampwork Glass, Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel, Powder Coated Copper, Titanium

Jill Hermans, Shibuichi Brooch, 2011. Shibuichi, stainless steel pin. Photo by Gabe Anderson

Simon Cottrell  Brooch: Doubled Double Circles And Over 2012  Monel, stainless steel

Kath Inglis – chartreuse shard neckpiece  – hand cut from a single piece of PVC

 

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Incinerator Art Space
Willoughby, Sydney