Today I set up an impromptu melt bench in the back yard to melt some tin sticks due to potential contamination issues. This was a largely successful enterprise which produced many slugs for me to work with. One slug dribbled off the bit of wood I was pouring it into and landed on the corrugation…
The Artist Attempts To Observe The World From Jewellery Eye View
I am going to hold a 1cm slice of this wax for one hour every day.
Handshake 3 collaborated with the Dialogue Collective in London for a 7 day project exploring the same time, 9am and 9pm (or thereabouts) in each country as an exercise to get to know each other. You can see more of this project here. This is where I was and what I was looking at: …
Continuing on from my last post on rapid prototyping… Five of my last batch of blobs sat looking at me, waiting for string, and a curious thought entered my head. They were buttons. Can you put buttons in jewellery show? I asked Raewyn: Are buttons jewellery? She responded with a page from a Warwick Freeman…
With 2.5 weeks to go before the 30th anniversary show at Masterworks I decided my meagre offerings had the potential to become a test drive for my Platina plan so I set about melting some blobs in rapid succession. I had only made 7 objects for this show originally so needed to melt down an…
I have noticed many times that there is a phenomenon amongst jewellers to swarm around new things – those things that are available en masse, usually for free or not that much – like the pink Ted Noten piggie rings, the Nana Melland aeroplanes or the gold perspex squares that emerged at the Handwerksmesse last…
29Jan16: Lisa Walker and I went Op Shopping in Newtown. We decided to buy anything that caught our eye and many things did. I was curious to see whether she would notice something I had seen – sometimes yes, sometimes no. The op shops in Wellington are so much better than in Auckland – it…
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