I love, love, love Pieces of Eight. It provides contemporary jewellery/small object artists a venue to exhibit and hopefully sell the more avant garde pieces.
Meredith Turnbull has curated an inspirational exhibition of 11 visual artists of non jewellery backgrounds in the show "Rock Solid". It's always interesting to see the diversity different people can bring to the same brief. There is a refreshing rawness to the pieces.
The stand out artist for me is Masato Takasaka. His pieces have a simplicity and elegance and yet there is so much going on. The transparent plastic allows all the different planes to be seen at once. I also especially liked Susan Jacobs' magnetic necklaces. The dynamic quality gives another interesting dimension to the jewellery.
I liked the fact that the majority of pieces were made of non precious materials. It really annoys me that often value is only attributed to precious materials in jewellery.
http://www.piecesofeight.com.au
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