Pre Handshake Device

Pre-Handshake Handshake Device by Dominic Wilcox.

"Many people in the world seem to be at war with each other. We see families split through disagreements, gang warfare on the streets, politicians arguing, whole civilisations and religions constantly battling. This device aims to help those who are at odds with each other make a first move toward reconciliation.
A traditional handshake can sometimes be just too big a step for those entrenched in their dislike of the other. No matter how important it is for two people to reconcile their differences they simply can’t get over their pride and lower themselves to the symbolism of a handshake with the other party. "

Crayon Totem Sculpture by artist Diem Chau

Gemma Holt's Jewellery

Gemma Holt showed off her new Pencil Jewellery designs at this year's RCA Summer Show. The series features links crafted from cut pencils that are then gold foiled and stamped with her own hallmark design and chained together. The hexagonal shape represents the cross-section profile of a standard pencil.

via dezeen

Ben Quilty: Painter

Thanks ABC for opening my eyes to the talented work of Ben Quilty.
Here are words taken from the Jan Murphy Gallery Website...

Ben Quilty's painting is not polite. Smeared, smudged, caked and slapped onto the picture plane with bold virtuosity, his rich impasto works challenge assumptions. Using bold and unsettling subjects, Quilty explores the problematic relationship between the personal and the cultural. Iconic imagery, animated by a textural third dimension, also becomes a vehicle for painterly meditations on the potency of painting. Emphatically expressive, they deny rumours that the medium is outmoded. Rather, their powerful and irresistable effect continues painting's noble tradition as an antidote to complacency. Sydney-based Quilty was already a regular exhibitor prior to completing Bachelor degrees in both Visual Arts and Design at Sydney University. His work continues to draw critical acclaim with regular and highly successful solo exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Quilty has completed residencies in several Australian centres, as well as in Paris as the winner of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, and most recently with the assistance of the Australia Council, in the Barcelona Studio Resdiency in Spain. He has been a finalist in the prestigious Wynne and Archibald prizes. His work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Queensland University of Technology Art Collection, and numerous corporate and private collections.

Inspration: ionna vautrin

I love these images, both sketched and the finished objects sourced from here.

Blogger Time

I have taken my time to get stuck into this blog.
Funnily enough, I am often sending snippets of inspiration through cyberspace.

So here are some images from my Architectural inspired collection. I am interesting in line forming volume of space; An illusion of shape, rather than solidity. This is a translation from my background as an interior designer and working with scale models.
My jewellery is a process of working on a 1:1 scale with the material itself to produce an aesthetic outcome that becomes wearable.

I have always been interested in textiles and incorporating this into my designs and have incorporated various colours from pearly beading thread into my designs as well. This becomes an sort of individualised choice from commision customers when they want to match to a certain style aesthetic.

These photos were taken using the wonderful talents of Jo Duck. Lucky me, I share a studio with the talented lady, so I get to see her quite a bit.
The photo shoot was styled according to an almost scientific experiment. Test tubes and glass vessels were used in the product shots. The clothes were kept simple; black and white, to bring about the inverse spaces I investigated through the collection.