NEXUS: Meetings at the Edge

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NEXUS: Meetings at the Edge

Lamb, Andrew (2018) NEXUS: Meetings at the Edge. Kirkcaldy Galleries, War Memorial Gardens Scotland & Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales, 31 March 2018 – 10 June 2018 & 29 September – 18 November 2018 [Show/Exhibition]

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Creators/Authors:

Lamb, Andrew

Abstract:

Touring Exhibition 2018

This exhibition looks at some of the ways in which 21st-century artists and makers are changing preconceptions about their art forms. Jewellery, silversmithing, textiles and ceramics all have long histories and deep-rooted traditions behind them. Today their familiar, often restricting, boundaries are being expanded by makers taking leaps of imagination and devising fresh approaches to the way they work.

The exhibitors in Nexus are linked by great technical skill, a capacity for free-thinking and confidence in their ideas. However, each has found their own way of extending the boundaries of their art form.Nexus celebrates the unexpected. None of the work in this exhibition may be quite what it seems.

Curated by Dr Elizabeth Goring for Fife Contemporary in collaboration with Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, it features 20 artists from around Britain and Ireland.

I was invited by Dr Elizabeth Goring to exhibit in a group exhibition examining how 21st-century artists and makers are changing preconceptions about their art forms.
I chose to select six pieces of jewellery "experimental work in precious alloying and laser welding which have resulted in groundbreaking work in the field of modern jewellery design, contemporary metalwork and craft"

"Andrew Lamb is a master of illusion in jewellery who delights in finding innovative ways to trick the eye. He has spent nearly two decades exploring and refining his surprising visual effects. His inspiration comes from the surfaces, weaves and designs of textiles, the patterns and movement seen in nature, and Op Art.
Andrew’s technical mastery of wire and meticulous attention to detail produce remarkable illusions of colour change and movement. In his ‘Changing Colour’ series, the arrangement of silver, white gold and yellow gold wires makes surfaces appear to change from gold to silver as the wearer or viewer moves. He has recently created interlaced colour-changing patterns using thousands of wire ‘pixels’ made from different gold alloys. As the jewellery moves, the surfaces reflect the light and appear to ripple." Dr Elizabeth Goring

Official URL:

https://www.fcac.co.uk/product/nexus-meetings-at-the-edge-downloadable-publication/

Output Type:

Show/Exhibition

Additional Information:

Dr Elizabeth Goring has postgraduate degrees from the Universities of Birmingham and London, where her research focused on ancient gold work. She has had a longstanding interest in the social, cultural and political significance of jewellery of all periods. She worked at the National Museums of Scotland for many years, where she held several curatorial and management posts including Curator of Modern Jewellery and Deputy Project Director: Museum of Scotland Project. She now works as an independent curator, writer and consultant. Although her specialist expertise lies within jewellery and metalwork, she has a wide-ranging knowledge of, and interest in, other areas of craft. Participating artists - Jane Adam Michael Brennand-Wood Jonathan Cleaver Susan Cross Rajesh Gogna Janet Haigh Kate Haywood Zoë Hillyard Genevieve Howard Andrew Lamb Ruth Leslie Wanshu Li Anna Lorenz Lynne MacLachlan Catherine Martin Valeria Nascimento David Poston Jacky Puzey Romilly Saumarez Smith Adi Toch

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Jewellery, silversmithing, textiles, ceramics. artists, makers, exhibition, touring

Media of Output:

Digital catalogue (£5)

Schools and Departments:

School of Design > Silversmithing & Jewellery

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