This range of cast metal jewellery are based
on the line drawings that are often featured on the ceramic dishes,
lampshades and printed textiles.
Cloud
Tapa Pod
Spiral Heart
Sweets
Finally sweets can take there place along with
other icons of NZ and can be worn with pride.
Do you really need the names? left to right
Chocolate fish, Jelly bean, Fruit slice, Milk bottle, Jet plane, Banana,
Jaffas and False Teeth.
Of course in their traditional flavours
and in recognition of the sixpence mixture also in pairs and threes.
Cross
Disc
The Disc Choker designs incorporate
a diverse range of inlaid materials from humble wild seed husks and shell fragments to
timber veneer, gold leaf and photographic images.
The highly polished surface of each disc has a
magnifying effect on the encased objects, changing the perception of the
often discarded and ignored materials.
Fragments
Links
Designs have evolved from the classic disc chokers to elaborate pieces incorporating slices of resin with
coloured glass beads.
Chunky medallions are combined with
marble sized beads. Large clear balls of highly polished resin
encapsulate and magnify delicate shell specimens.
New shapes are being developed from the
edgier stainless steel pieces to longer classic styles reflecting Mandarin
necklaces, where large pendants inlaid with metal leaf and minature ceramic
torsos are suspended from strings of resin and glass beads.
Model Photos courtesy of the Hart Show at
Air New Zealand Fashion Week 2006
Karen's entry in
the Inaugural Art of Costume
Jewellery Award won Highly Commended in the
Crystal Pacfic
category. Judged by
World's Francis Hooper, fashion designer Liz Mitchell and Elizabeth
Klause from Smith & Caughey, this event
hosted by Auckland Beads and Peter Raos Gallery is
sure to become highly
contested each year.