My ‘Lenticular’ Ring 2015 has been purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum London for their Jewellery & Metal Collection, and will go on display when the V & A Dundee opens in September 2018.
This Lenticular changing colour ring (2015), commissioned for A Sense of Jewellery, is extraordinarily intricate. In the exhibition the presentation of this work employs technology of another type; following a collaborative project with Stef Lewandowski, of Makeshift, visitors are invited to put on Oculus Rift glasses, which enable a very close examination of Lenticular changing colour ring (2015). The view through the glasses is manipulated by a sensor, controlled by the wearer’s hand. This approach to displaying the work acknowledges and looks to overcome the potential frustration of a visitor, who would like to look more closely .”
From the Museum website:
Physical description - Curved gold band, the surface a mass of tiny loops which are yellow gold on one side and white gold on the other. As the ring moves the surface appears to change colour.
Place of Origin - Scotland (Aberdeen, made)
Date - 2015 (made)
Artist/maker - Lamb, Andrew, born 1978 (designed and made by)
Materials and Techniques - Yellow and white gold
Marks and inscriptions - ADL and Edinburgh 2015 hallmarks for 18 carat gold on the inside of the band
Dimensions - Height: 8 mm, Diameter: 22 mm
Object history note - The ring was commissioned for the exhibition 'A Sense of Jewellery' at the Goldsmiths' Centre, Clerkenwell, London, 15 September to 19 November 2015, by the exhibition's curators Amanda Game and Dorothy Hogg.
Descriptive line - 'Lenticular' ring, yellow and white gold, designed and made by Andrew Lamb, Scotland 2015
Materials - Gold
Categories - Jewellery; Metalwork
Collection - Metalwork Collection
