Unintended Consequences, 5 Brooches
Selected for the 2022 National Contemporary Jewellery Award at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Griffith NSW, from October 28, 2022
Selected for the 2022 National Contemporary Jewellery Award at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Griffith NSW, from October 28, 2022
The series Unintended Consequences has been created using steel from a Toyota Corolla car body in bush land near my home. On the edge of suburbia this patch of bush had, over many years, become a dumping ground for abandoned cars.
I am fascinated by these wrecks and how they came to be there, reflecting the intervention of, particularly, twentieth century man in the landscape. These cars are slowly decaying into the earth, subtly changing every year, shedding more fragments of rusting metal.
These brooches were created for the most part by using small items of steel as they were found on the ground around the car. The steel has been prepared only in as much as it was scrubbed clean with a brush. The enamel was applied with a view to letting the process direct the outcome. In places, the steel has revealed itself through the vitreous surface to assert itself, in others the enamel has created patterns mirroring the wear and tear of car duco over time.
I am fascinated by these wrecks and how they came to be there, reflecting the intervention of, particularly, twentieth century man in the landscape. These cars are slowly decaying into the earth, subtly changing every year, shedding more fragments of rusting metal.
These brooches were created for the most part by using small items of steel as they were found on the ground around the car. The steel has been prepared only in as much as it was scrubbed clean with a brush. The enamel was applied with a view to letting the process direct the outcome. In places, the steel has revealed itself through the vitreous surface to assert itself, in others the enamel has created patterns mirroring the wear and tear of car duco over time.