Red Eye

Well, what an enjoyable evening! The Red Eye event in Durban was a great night of art, dance, music, fashion and performance. Congratulations to everyone involved, and to the models who did such a great job displaying our jewellery. Im looking forward to the next one!

Here are some shots of my piece on the night…

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Red Eye Ruffles

I’ve finished my RedEye piece and have to say that I’m quite excited to see how it’s going to look on the night. I think the layers of material, lace and metal are rather effective.

I used the wire pattern I experimented with for my platenum piece earlier as a trimming at the top. This was made by bending the wire around nails that I had hammered into a wooden block.

I decided to make an earring to be worn on the opposite side, this I made with enamelled silver…

Watch this space for photos of the piece at the event…see you there!

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Lace Ruffles

I am hoping to take part in the next Red Eye event happening in Durban in September. I will be making a bold ramp piece of jewellery which I am intending to make with layers of metal, lace and paper.

The ideas I have come up with take reference from the flamboyant lace ruffs, collars and cuffs that were part of the court costumes in the 17th Century. Needlepoint lace was worn as a display of luxury and elegance by both men and women to demonstrate their high class and wealth.

References:

http://www.marlamallett.com/l-needle.htm

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of clothing through world history, Volume 2, by Jill Condra

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Flavours Exhibition

The Flavours Exhibition opened on Monday evening and I think it came out rather successfully. I think I speak for everyone when I say that puting together an exhibition takes a lot of planning and preparation, and I certainly learnt a lot from this experience.

I was fairly happy with my display and although it could [...]

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Working with Pewter

In preparing for my exhibition I have been trying to decide what to do on the wall behind my stands. I originally wanted to cover the tops of my stands with patterned pewter but my jewellery seemed to get lost when I put it on top. I have therefore decided to use the pewter on [...]

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Stands for my jewellery

I’ve been busy working on the presentation of my jewellery for the FLAVOURS Exhibition. I’ve been making stands to display it on which I originally wanted to make detachable by making a little box under the tops to slip the base into like so…

It proved to be a bit unstable and messy looking so I [...]

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FLAVOURS Exhibition

If you live in Durban and are interested in an evening infused with different flavours, styles, cultures and inspiration, come along to the FLAVOURS Exhibition by Durban emerging jewellers! It’s at artSpace Durban, opening 13 July 18:00 and runs until 1 August.
I will be showcasing my work and will have pieces for sale by order.
See [...]

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What’s your flavour?….

Is this your flavour?…
Find out at our exhibition coming up at ArtSpace in Durban on 13 July.

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Display ideas…

I have an exhibition approaching soon and need to figure out what my diplay is going to look like. I have a few ideas and would really like to know what you think of them or any further suggestions you may have…
Things I need to consider:
- The viewer must be able to interact [...]

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Sasol wax art award 2008

Last week I helped curate the Sasol wax art award exhbition at KZNSA Gallery in Durban. Along with the art award, Sosol and Carola Ross & Associates run a skills development project involving jewellery.
It is a wonderful programe where jewellery skills development projects such as the Velobala Group and the Imfundiso group train up young, [...]

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The Durban University of Technology’s Jewellery Department had our end of year Jewellery exhibition Diploma show on Tuesday night. I thought it was a very successful display of some of the talent in our midst. A congratulations to all the graduating third years! There’s definately some talented jewellers breaking into the scene! Another congratulations to the graduating B-Tech students! [...]

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Display test run

As my end of year display is comming up very soon and the days are flying by, it was time I got to work on it! So I started off this weekend by making some basic frames to frame my jewellery.

I decided to set up a practice run of my display to see if my ideas [...]

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Display decisions

Its our end of year display coming up soon and my mind has been occupied with how I’m going to set up my display….I wanted to bring in my layering and collaging somehow but I’m scared it could be too overpowering and busy. I’d really like it to be simple and effective, so after thinking [...]

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DUT Fashion Show

So the DUT Fashion show was last week and my pieces looked alright, the outfits ( made by Bianca Werner) were lovely, and the evening was great success overall. Here are some pictures of how it went down…

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Thinking out my box

I recently agreed to team up with a fashion design student who is exhibiting her work in a show, and I agreed to make jewellery for her outfits. I had not seen any of her ideas and thought it would be a good challenge for me to work within a different design style and out [...]

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The BARE Exhibition

A local shop Bare put on a showing of new upcoming jewellery designers which I took part in. It was very exciting for me and a means of pushing myself and as pressured as it was, I really enjoyed just getting stuck in and manufacturing. I found that while making one piece it would spark [...]

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Half Year Display

These are Pictures of my half year display I set up at tech recently. Because there are so many other things I explored as a journey up to making my jewellery, I found it difficult to show everything in the display in order to create a context for my pieces, but at the same time, [...]

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