Exhibition at Colombo

When reflecting on this exhibition and deciding what worked and what could have been improved, I thought about this...

Each person could see a collection of jewellery or any kind of art subjectively. So displaying my work in context helps the viewer understand the background and enhance the actual collection. The sand and water further hinted that my jewellery was 'from the ocean'. For my final exhibition I should explore this display idea further by creating a similar display that allows my pieces to be picked up and explored (not in bottles).
Feedback that I recieved about my display was that the jars forced the viewer to engage with my work. Because people had to bend down and look into the jars it demanded more attention. Another comment that was made was about the water and how it distorts the shape and colours of the piece once submerged.


Photo: Jenni McKenzie
Photo: Matthew Stroud
Photo: Jenni McKenzie
Photo: Jenni McKenzie
Photo: Matthew Stroud
Photo: Jenni McKenzie

Completed Necklace

Sea 'Feeling' necklace

Ocean/Jelly Ring

Moving on from my 'Jelly fish' brooches, I decided to continue with the concept of an ocean 'feeling'. I did this by taking certain aspects from previous pieces such as enamelling, hidden detail and traces of the manufacturing process. The idea was to create a piece that wasn't directly linked back to any sea animal or creature, but rather has the feeling of something that could be found either on the ocean floor or living along a reef.

Abstract Jelly Brooch....

Stumbling onto this way of threading the nylon, and then discarding my original idea, is how i enjoy manufacturing jewellery. Like the inspiration behind my pieces, I allow the actual process of manufacturing to be organic and natural. By starting with a basic idea and then 'going with the flow', I feel like my pieces are almost grown. This 'growing' feeling is reinforced by leaving traces of the manufacturing process on the finished piece.

These photos show the finished brooch...

abstract jelly

Although this piece does not look like a jelly fish at first glance, I believe that its development from an original jelly fish shape can be seen through my exploratory drawings.

colourful nylon!