Sharon Fitness

What is it? Contemporary jewellery can manifest in a thousand ways and as such is hard to contain or define. It is like a language that we can read and use to communicate with others. I like to make things that engage your imagination. Things you can reach out and engage with, to touch and feel with. To play

Andrea Daly & Caryline Boreham

Humans try to control nature and yet how quickly it returns. A battle nature will always win.

Amelia Rothwell

An absence, reversal or lack of.

To hold something of someone within.

Fran Carter

LOCKDOWN II.
The world around us silently rages and ravages
Bodies, lungs, and livelihoods.
But also we are safe, if not divided
Arms raised and shovels digging underground.
Stay home, stay regulated, and take prescribed daily exercise
Zoom, zoom, zoom!
Set your backdrop, pretend you’re somewhere else
Though nothing seems better than anywhere but here.
Lock the door on your stagnating thoughts and news reports
Head for the hills, avoiding the ever present boogie man lurking in the wake of a passing stranger
Ground your feet on the forest floor
…and breathe

To hold something of someone within.

Karl Fritsch

Katie Pascoe

Lightning began appearing in my work a few years ago. Its jagged edge simultaneously moving up
and down in mother-of-pearl. Contemplations on that infamous spark of creativity. Karen Barad (theoretical physicist) poe1cally refers to lightning as being here, there, everywhere and nowhere.
The phenomenon barely contained. Lightning only occurs when a charged cloud comes into relationship with an object. It’s the object that sends the upward arc first and is met by the downward response.
That jagged line claims space in an electrical act of collaboration.
Beware. Here lives power.

Kylie Sinkovich

The chains that bind

The chains, so powerfully bound around the neck, could act as an invitation for the viewer to turn their attention inwards; to question what chains bind them…

Do they have freedom to choose or speak freely; at a family level, in their work, in public?

And if they perceive any lack of freedom, to ask themselves, how does that lack come about.

Is it within them, or is it imposed upon them… via cultural limitations, a lack of freedom in public life, or a narrative that acts in the same way as a chain.

The chains that bind can be as fine as a love that comes with expectations; to those impositions and limits invented by an autocratic government, employer or institution.

Exert from a speech Mandela made to the International Press Institute Congress shortly before winning the 1994 election.

Lisa Walker

shells gourd art painting trophy earring holder print of ring vase drawing bowl lamp Māori wall collection light

Nadine Smith

A conscious vision of material waste reborn
We have lost our way
We are all at sea

Neke Moa

“I have a shifting, evolutionary art practice that uplifts mana motuhake. Capturing stories through material use and wairuatanga. I sit centre and allow the connections to atua, tāngata and tohunga flow through the collection of materials, research and making.
I honour the sacred and profane and the spaces in between. Reminding and remembering that we are all part of a greater plan”.

Nikki Perry

The words had to be enough.

Renée Pearson

In our modern society we seem to be obsessed with containing things, with fencing things in both literally and figuratively. We try to contain the natural world, to put up fences, to see ourselves as separate from it and interact with it only on our own terms, much to the detriment of the world, both human and natural.

Can we learn to take down the fences, to move off this path of mutual destruction and live harmoniously within the world?

Rosanne Bartley 

In their makings Alphabets contain references to human and more than human body parts. Spines, limbs, ears and tails nominally define stylistic features that influence the legibility of each letter form. Moving beyond visual representation however, the performativity of text in public space rarely considers the physical and material effects of these anatomical features; how diverse in mobility, gender and flesh they become – how much they desire to express identity, mimetically intra-relate with culture and place, or signify their wealth and power. In this abstracted milieu of associations, it appears language and ornamentation may have more in common than just bodies.

Sarah Walker-Holt    

What is it that family objects and jewellery possess, that I can imaginarily wear them when I hold them, as they were worn by those that came before, connecting me to a time and place that I only know of through stories… Do these objects hold someone within, who is released when they are held by those in the present?

Susan Videler     

Microbes, billions upon billions.
A planet teeming with microscopic lifeforms all vying to reproduce, or to find a host.
The ‘spillover’ is when one jumps species…….

Peter Deckers

uncontained WATER: the most precious creation for live.

Why do we humans like shiny objects?

It might come from the evolution of millions of years in the search of precious water.  The light flickering  through dense bush revealed our primal forebears where a precious water source can be.