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October 27, 2007
Last night I went to the opening of a contemporary jewellery exhibition entitled Luminaries at Flinders University Art Gallery in Adelaide. I wandered out into the foyer between speeches and took this:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Foyer, Flinders University Gallery, 2007
and uploaded it to my uban gallery.
Luminaries is a traveling exhibition that shows new work by six Australasian jewellers: Warwick Freeman, Barbara Heath, Marian Hosking, Carlier Makigawa, Catherine Truman and Margaret West.
Barbara Heath, who is staying with us at the weekender in Victor Harbor, gave a talk in which she said that:
my work is earthed, by the functional imperitive of daily wearability. Sensuality and the pleasure of wearing objects that conform to the body is part of the work too.The kinesthetic body... the one that feels, and knows by feeling. The weight and density of metal encircling a finger, the rolling fluidity of a knotted strand of beads draped around a neck - these kind of presences and restrictions draw our inner attention to our body’s own sites of meaning, to our posture and our collective memory and our rituals.
She linked her work in the exhibition to the Cheapside Hoard archives. The group of 400 items includes delicate gem rings each having their gold bands partially concealed beneath white enamel. In Barb's work the gold is partly covered with white enamel.
Barbara Heath, Lace White Enamel Fusion, 18ct Yellow Gold, 2004
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