No.1 Item: Pendent H 47cm W 10cm D 7cm Materials: decommissioned museum bone, recalled paint, rainfall on Friday 13th, brown paper, pewter, amethyst, rubberPhoto credit: Michael Pollard
No.1 Item: Pendent detail Photo credit: Michael Pollard
Mark McLeish
No.9 Item: Pendent H 42cm W 8cm D 3cm Materials: rattle from snake, gold, silver, pewter, green garnet, flocking, finger from glove, military waxed tread, porcelain, nail varnish. Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No.9 Item: Pendent H 42cm W 8cm D 3cm Materials: rattle from snake, gold, silver, pewter, green garnet, flocking, finger from glove, military waxed tread, porcelain, nail varnish.Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No.6 Item: brooch H 4cm W 4cm D 3.5cm Materials: porcelain, glass, metal, putty Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No.4 Item: Hand Object H 6cm W 5cm D 4cm Materials: Silver, found ceramic doll torso, coral, tourmalated quartz, roof nails from funeral home, thread Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No.0 Item: Brooch H 22cm W 14cm D 4cm Materials: silver, mudlark found objects, textile threads, plastic Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No.5 Item: brooch detail Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No.5 Item: brooch H 17cm W 9cm D 3cm Materials: crocodile, shuttlecocks, uncut keys, plastic, parcel string Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No.8 Item: brooch H 12cm W 6.5cm D 3cm Materials: porcelain, silver, found objects, signed photograph of Anjelica Huston, paint, glue, textile, plastic Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No.10 Item: Pendent H 11cm W 6.5cm D 1.5cm Materials: Pewter, Tourmaline, nylon Photo credit: Michael Pollard
No. 3 Item: Brooch H 25cm W 21cm D 4cm Materials: reclaimed leather from gloves, porcelain, found silver coin love tokens, thread, silver, stainless-steel Photo credit: Michael Pollard
13 Treatments
I think of jewelleryness as a space that can splice thinking to an in-between state of being. An intersection of materiality meets the body, and becomes an object in agency of otherness. 13 Treatments pulls together a historical viewpoint of crafting jewellery for spells. Making with directness tangible connections that provide representation to the intention and purpose the spell/s provides. Here offers a complex ownership for the transference once the jewellery is worn.
The pieces work with the notion of being untitled so the viewer feels an attraction towards the treatment that works beyond the revealed and prescribed. Suggesting they will be drawn to something they need, lacking or searching for, and the jewellery will become a tool for enablement.
Common concepts of love, luck, good health, decision making and protection are starting points. Folding in cultural and political afflictions to draft the meaning and responsibility for each item of jewellery. Explicit rhymes for making are then matched and materials found for ingredients. This making methodology coaxes out questions that expand from the relationship of collecting and finding objects and materials for their material vitality. This important element involves a tangle of stories that often become coded, displaced, converged and contemporised for progressive story telling.