MA Shows 2009 - Life's a Bench
20-Aug-2009
The exhibition ‘Life’s a Bench!’ showcases the students graduating from the School of Jewellery’s MA programme. The work presented reflects the development of each individuals practice over the one-year course.
Standing together in one show each maker’s collection demonstrates sensitivity to their environment often addressing contemporary social and economic issues: a sense of belonging and ideas of worth, re-using and recycling materials or making challenging imagery into wearable objects.
Bringing skills from many different art, craft and design backgrounds, this international group of makers redefine materials for use in jewellery including metals, plastics, wood, textiles and ceramics. Using 2D and 3D design principles and applying both traditional and cutting edge techniques to innovative choices of material results in a rich variety of work with strong aesthetics.
Operating outside the conventional boundaries of craft, these makers have explored the relationships between jewellery and the body, the wearer and themselves, displaying a critical undercurrent we are more used to seeing in fine art.
Participating Artists:
Yung-Tung Chen, Charlotte Daffern, Fiona Jane Hermes, You-Hua Hsieh, Tamsin Leighton-Boyce, Mikaela Lyons, Katharina Moch, Katherine Richmond, Elena Ruebel, Rickson Salkeld, Chuchart Sarunnayawatsin, Ching-Chih Tseng, Shadi Vossough, Jue Zhao.
Venue: The School of Jewellery,
When: 8th-24th September 2009
Mon-Thurs 10am-5pm, Fri 10am-4:30pm, Sat 10am-4pm
Contact and Further info:
crafthaus.ning.com/events/lifes-a-bench
issuu.com/lifeisabench/docs/lifeisabench
