Posts Tagged ‘jewellery’

CRAFT HATCH @ MWF


Anita Cummins’ scarves


Brydie Dyson’s work


Nicholas Jones’ work


Wendy Junes’ work


Kearnsie brooches


PHILOS-o-FACE Brooches


Rebound Books’ work


Sneak Design cardie


Studio Hip work


Studio Sam’s Howard Mini
Screen


Vince card


Wah Wah Wears’ pendant

Dates: Sunday 23 August, 10am-4pm
Sunday 30 August, 10am-4pm
Venue: Federation Square Atrium, Melbourne

Craft Victoria is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Melbourne Writers Festival to present a special market series featuring handmade products with a literary theme.

 

The Craft Hatch: Melbourne Writers Festival stallholders will be:

Anita Cummins
This is a note to all those four-eyed, brogue-wearing bookworms and bibliophiles: Moth-eaten navy scarves used to be the real thing. Alas, times they are a-changing and all you informed and literary characters need something fresh, like a brand spanking new scarf with your initials embroidered on it. Emerging textile artist Anita Cummins does just that. Using soft wool and unusual colour combinations, Anita’s scarves are sure to keep you warm in the icy aisles of your local library.

Anita will be at the 30 August market.

 

Brydie Dyson
My work is a delicate, intricate and playful approach to one’s personal relationship with wearable art-objects.
Toying with the conflicting ideas of sustainability and deterioration, the wearable art-objects are constructed from cut and folded second-hand books.
The paper jewellery range challenges the social conventions of preserving art objects, suggesting that possessions can evolve over time, and can command their own form and aesthetics, becoming even more beautiful and well crafted by their own accord.
http://antelopeandcantaloup.blogspot.com

Brydie will be at the 30 August market.

 

Nicholas Jones
Nicholas Jones has been described as a ‘book artist, book dissector and book carver’. Based in Melbourne, Jones collects discarded books that no longer have a home. Folding, refolding, tearing, cutting and sewing their pages, he carefully and quite deliberately dissects the, creating delicate and exquisite sculptural installations. Constantly inspired by the material he works with, Jones is intrigued by the history these books tell, “as if they are explaining their lives as I slice into them”. Intrigued by their history and inspired by the idea of difference, his work is as much about process as it is about the form- “these books were conceived, born, loved, stored, discarded, found anew, studied, cut, folded and reborn”.
www.bibliopath.org

Nicholas will be at the 23 August market.

 

Wendy June
wendy june must have at least nine arms as all her products are currently individually made by just herself. Her drawings are detailed and quirky, simple and fresh, duck down and get some of the wendy june limited prints or simply pick up a card that has the look and feel of an original art work.
www.wendyjune.com.au

Wendy will be at the 23 August market.

 

Kearnsie (Lisa Kearns)
Kearnsie Manufacture and Design has been established for four years, supplying in Melbourne and interstate. Specialising in quirky, unique jewellery with a hint of comedy. Using materials ranging from precious metals to found objects, the design process is very playful. Remodelling knitting needles, sunglasses and souvenier spoons combined with memories, to produce pieces that have a story to tell.
www.kearnsie.com.au

Kearnsie will be at the 30 August market.

 

PHILOS-o-FACE (Prudence Rees-Lee)
Kant? Neitszche? Beckett? Sure they may be some of history’s most important writers, but could you recognize their mugs in a line up? PHILOS-o-FACE believes it’s about time to put a face to the name, with perfectly crafted, resin brooches. It’s not often that you get the chance to wax lyrical about your favorite philosopher outside the lecture hall, but when someone unwittingly asks ‘who is that weird looking dude on your jumper’, well…. let’s hope you did your reading.
www.philosoface.com

PHILOS-o-FACE will be at the 23 August market.

 

Rebound Books
At Rebound we make journals, sketchbooks, photo albums, diaries and bookmarks. We use unwanted, pre-loved hardcovers and fill them with blank 100% recycled paper. Our newest invention is the record cards, which are handmade greeting cards made from second hand record covers and envelopes made from second hand sheet music. Each card has a hand cut shape in the cover to write your greeting message in, and each card is packaged with an envelope in a biodegradable clear plastic bag. Each Rebound item is unique and handmade in Melbourne, Australia.
www.reboundbooks.net

Rebound Books will be at both the 23 and 30 August markets.

 

Sneak Design (Anika Cook)
Sneak Design is a teeny design company run by Melbourne girl Anika Cook. Its screenprinted clothing, accessories and artworks go a long way towards satisfying Anika’s urge to draw animals having strange adventures and men in top hats called Neville.
www.sneakdesign.com.au

Sneak Design will be at the 23 August market.

 

Studio Hip (Damien Hipwell & Jacqueline Cuijpers)
Studio Hip is a creator of contmeporary timber furniture and homewares, designing and making pieces for everyday living. All pieces are built using sustainable materials and eco-friendly finishes.
www.studiohip.com

Studio Hip will be at the 30 August market.

 

Studio Sam
Samantha Parsons established her design practice Studio Sam (formerly I am Samantha) in 2004, following national and international recognition for her product design and ten years working as a landscape architect and interior designer. The multidisciplinary design studio works across traditional boundaries of design to create whole environments and is currently working on a range of built environments (residential, corporate, retail, built settings, hospitality and event spaces) and the development of a diverse range of new lifestyle products (under the name Family of Sam).
www.studiosam.com.au

Studio Sam will be at both the 23 and 30 August markets.

 

Vince Letterpress (Meaghan Barbuto)
Created in 2008 by Meaghan Barbuto, Vince fuses traditional methods of antique letterpress coupled with modern technology and design to create unique, handcrafted cards, stationery, invitations and spectacular paper creations to house life’s most memorable moments.
http://vinceletterpress.blogspot.com/

Vince Letterpress will be at the 30 August market.

 

Wah Wah Wears (Zoe Churchill)
Wah-Wah Wears her thoughts out loud. Each piece is hand crafted in Melbourne from Porcelain or Sterling Silver and combines quirky quotes and comments, and kooky images. You are bound to be left with one eyebrow raised and a half smirk half smile. Bumping into someone wearing the same thing as you sucks, so Wah-Wah Wears limited editions only.

Wah Wah will be at the 23 August market.

 

 

KARLA WAY : Entropical Kingdom

Perspex, silver, ruby crystal, cubic zirconia, silk cord

The ruins of an ancient kingdom are pushed and pulled by the elements and time. Humans throughout history have manipulated the earth’s surface and its strata to construct walls, roofs, gates and fences in order to separate civilisation and nature.

Here, plants and crystalline growths have intruded upon a human made form or fortress; they have become inseparable and the landscape reclaims these forms in their altered state.

There is an entropic force at work, a pull towards a chaos that is metamorphic and evolutionary.

The ruin becomes a liminal location, an in-between place, a fringe, where the boundaries between nature and human structures are blurred and the forces of decay and growth are at work.

NATALIA MILOSZ-PIEKARSKA : Forest for the Fences

Timber, enamel paint, cotton; hand whittled and painted

Populations grow and urbanisation spreads. Forests become cities and natural landscapes become private property. We flatten hills and replace trees with fences as we conquer, control and contain land in pursuit of a little something that we can call ours. A haven divided from the rest of the world by a thin line bordering mine from yours. We cut, shape and mould a home, a garden, a sanctuary from land that provides much of what we need to satisfy our nesting needs. As we continue to spread, to cut and divide, to manipulate and consume our natural resources, how much do we forgo when we can no longer see the forest for the fences?

JANE MILLARD : Specific Yellow Line

Wood, nails, Sterling silver and paint

I live between the city and the country. I love the contrast between the two environments and what each offers as inspiration. Abstraction plays a large role within my work and I am drawn to shape and form. The shapes and forms I see in the country are wide and vast, whilst details are more apparent in the city.

The pieces I create do not take on any recognisable form, however I draw inspiration from the environment around me. I like my work to remain as abstract as possible, allowing the beauty of the material and the technique used to be expressed freely.

Sometimes I start a piece in one location and then finish it in the other location. The feel and direction of a work can change between the two environments and this adds to my abstract direction.

VICTORIA MASON : Tyre Swan

Sterling Silver and cold enamel; rolled, sawpierced, filed, cast, polished and painted

This Sterling Silver Tyre Swan is part of a group of swans I make. It reminds me childhood holidays driving out to the country when my sister and I would peer through the car windows trying to be the first one to call out “swan!”. Around that same time there was a house I used to walk past which had all of that beautiful Australian flair – a post box held up by a stiffened chain, garden gnomes, a driveway flanked by scalloped half tyres painted white, and of course the tyre swans as both hanging plant basket variety and the ‘sitting’ plant holder.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen one in the wild, so this is a tribute for long car trips and Nannas’ gardens.

LIZ JONES : Alpine Snow Globe Brooch

Recycled Lino, laminex, plastic

The snow globe captures a small slice of the country within its transparent sphere and allows those in the city to experience snow capped Alps and alpine wildlife without having to leave their urban environment.

Snow globes were traditionally a souvenir from a holiday out of town. A quick shake and a wintry rural wonderland will appear wherever you are, evoking the indelible memories of a childhood trip to the snow.

This snow globe brooch has been crafted from recycled linoleum rescued from a house in inner city Melbourne and a country house in Clunes. The plastic rabbits (from a child’s coat hanger) sit happily in the rural tableaux, although their gaudy colours are decidedly urban.

JIN AH JO : Reconstruction of Urban Boundaries

Sterling silver, mild steel, acrylic, plastic, nylon, magnet

The theme CITY|COUNTRY sounds as though these terms are linked together; in fact they share a lot of things in common and contrary. Geographical boundaries have been created naturally but have also been made by humans with purpose and plan. The magnets in my work represent the artificial characteristic of changing form and boundaries with human manipulation.

ROSEANNE BARTLEY : Recent Collection 1

Found objects, sterling silver settings, stainless steel brooch pins

I work with material that has been left behind, discarded or dismantled by the process of everyday use, stuff that contains what archaeologist Michael Shanks calls the “background noise of history and experience.”

I survey and gather material from sites in my surrounds, my front gate, local parks, streets and waterways, namely the Merri Creek.

Overtime I am beginning to observe a trace that suggests something unique about the city I live in. For instance my house is the distance it takes to eat an icy-pole from the 7-Eleven; if you find one beer cap walking down a laneway there is a good chance you will find another of the same kind; and approximately 50 metres from McDonalds their white plastic spoons can be found.

The material trace I collect informs me about the people, the culture and the environment in which I live and it determines what I make. I can’t just order the material I want, or find it in the condition I need. For certain outcomes I am reliant on the weather and those who go before me.

ALI ALEXANDER : Airborne

9ct yellow gold with found objects

I live in the city, my mother in the country: we both like watching airborne things. From her verandah it’s lots of birds, from my balcony it’s some birds and other things.

These two brooches represent the similarities/differences of the experiences, her delight at a flock of cockatoos gliding across the land and my enjoyment of a plastic bag dancing between buildings. Behind the bag and the feather I have inscribed the names of our homes.

VICKI MASON : Xanthorrhoea

Sterling silver, hand-dyed PVC; hand fabricated

The motif of the Australian native grass-tree was used by many Australian immigrant goldsmiths and jewellers within works produced in the high-colonial period (approx. 1850 - 1870s). It expressed for them a new found pride in their recently acquired identity, as well as colonising ideas of the ‘other’ and of the bush. With its strong vertical focus it perhaps also manifested ideas of the new land watching over and guarding its secrets from those who sought to possess them and the land.

Today within gardening and landscape design in the city, the use of the Australian native grass-tree signifies a native quality or tone. As Nalda Searles points out, it’s a good publiciser for this quality in urban land sales promotions. This ring is loaded with these notions amongst many others, but the grass tree is used here to bring attention to its importance from an environmental standpoint within contemporary society. A unique, iconic and beautiful architectural plant, it may come to the city but its future lies in it being preserved by landowners and reserve/park managers taking care of it in the wild. Although only one of the species within the genus is endangered, it’s a slippery slope.

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