Melbourne Design Awards

Category- Product Design(Accessory and Jewellery)

Kinetic Pendant- Fine silver, 22ct Yellow gold, copper, iron, shakudo, shibhuichi

VOTING OPEN TILL 13TH FEB,2011!

http://melbournedesignawards.com.au/mda2010/

"Pickled GINGER" A Banquet For Eight

Photo credit: Kate Marshall

Exploring the room laid out as a restaurant, with sushi inspired jewellery laid out as banquet on 2 long tables. A tactile exploration of jewellery as food for the mind. The exhibition starts 30th oct,10  and runs till 24th nov,2010 at Oak Hill Gallery-100 Tyabb Road, Mornington. All credit goes to Kate Marshall for organising all this and encouraging rest of us from start to end.

"Pickled ginger" is the title given to jewellery exhibition inspired by Sushi by emerging jewellers who either studied or are studying from Box Hill Institute of Tafe. I am really honoured to be a part of it.
Artists include-: Puneet Jodhka, Stephen Robb, Misako Sakai, Marieke-joy Trelor, Karyn Nankivell, Jane Walker, Kim Jonsson and Kate Marshall (curator).

Photo credit- Kate Marshall

The Installation Crew- Kate Marshall, Stephen Robb, Jodie Welch, Karyn Nankivell

See the gallery's website to check out other great exhibitions by Michael Sanders, Gayle O'Connor, Eugenie Bos, Matt Drysdale and Joy Elsner.
www.oakhillgallery.com.au

MEGA CRAFT HATCH 23rd Oct,2010

Setting up my first individual stall at State Library of Victoria (experimedia) in the morning, I was very much in awe. There was so much talent around me and I was also honoured to be a part of it. I wanted to present myself informally to the customers so I drew my work on foam board and wrote by hand (instead of printing) for a display. This felt very amateurish but I got good feedback from the customers. Coming from Victoria mason " Display is good, very informative". My work was about kinetic jewellery, so I had to show movement to people so only displaying my work was not enough. Hence, I drew my work and showed how petals rotate with arrows. I also kept giving demonstrations on how to wear one piece with different variations. People really like the idea of movement and gave me some positive feedback.

The above picture was taken in the end of the day. I am still smiling which means that I had a very good day and I want to thank Craft Victoria for giving me this opportunity and my fellow stallholders for encouraging me. It was a really good opportunity to put yourself out in the market and see how people react. And when they say "wow", all the pain seems worthwhile. After I finished packing, I was very much motivated and more determined to deliver the promise that I made to all the people who appreciated my work.

Craft to Consumer: Craft Victoria

Finally, I was able to get Craft Victoria professional membership which i was putting off for numerous reasons. So the first session i attended was Craft to consumer. This information session was for emerging and established makers seeking to expand their market reach in retail sector. Gaye Naismith and Victoria Mason shared their experieneces in retail, markets and wholesale sectors.
It gave a useful insight to understand the difference between wholesale and retail markets. One really needs to know their product and its target market. Above all when dealing with retail sector, one needs to present oneself professionally-" always give an invoice and keep a detail record of your consignments".And before presenting yourself make sure you have enough stock to fulfill the demand.

My product is quite labour intensive and i can only produce limited edition range. The technique i am using is inspired from mokume-gane and I have been trying hard to make shakudo (copper and gold) and shibhuichi (copper and silver). The most difficult part is to configure how to melt copper to make alloys. Sometimes its such a pain!

GANOSKIN came to my rescue, it really has all the answers. Putting crushed charcoal besides copper helps preventing copper to absorb oxygen. I cant believe I produced 1083 degree celsius temperature and copper finally melted.

The above picture is a test piece. The black lines is shakudo ( I was so happy to see the black colour after applying patina).  I really want to call it black gold (instead of shakudo) as apart from having 4% 22ct yellow gold, it is enormously labour intensive. Now am making some more shakudo, need to get hold of the technique! 

Topography of MetaL

Curated by: Susan Skoczen (http://www.susanskoczen.com/)
"Topography of Metal" is and exhibition to investigate the manipulation of surface of metal. The exhibition starts 15th oct,2010 and runs till 19th nov,2010 at Tap Studios/Gallery M,USA. It is a unique studio and exhibition space dedicated to the creation and promotion of art jewelry.

I continue to explore the kinetic element in my work. I am very much excited for this first international exhibition , its a great motivation. I would like to thank Susan from bottom of my heart for appreciating my work. I really love her work and the way she incoporates metal with contemporary materials like flocking.

KINETIC JEWELLERY

Movement forms an important part in my work. I have started a series of Kinetic jewellery which will give the wearer different variations to wear one piece. The above work is a Kinetic Bangle which can expand and contract to any wrist size.

NCJA 2010- Finalist

National contemporary jewellery award is a biennial exhibition open to all jewellers in Australia. Last time I sent a ring to the competition and it was my first piece to sell. So this time I was more excited to enter. This exhibition is opening on 9th september 2010 and runs till 3rd october,2010 at GRIFFITH REGIONAL ART GALLERY,NSW.

Medium- Sterling silver, copper, mild steel, 9ct yellow gold, 22ct yellow gold, patination.

My work is a kinetic neckpiece so its shape can be changed by pulling it down or sideways. I have used around 190 petals, each of which is riveted together. I have used sequins in between to prevent wear and tear of metal and add friction. Layers of copper, silver, gold and mild steel are fused together and patina is applied for final finish.


Finalists include; Brendan Adair-Smith, Marina Antoniou, Kristy-Lee
Agresta, Jane Bowden, Melissa Cameron, Simon Cottrell, Catherine Da Costa,
Anna Davern, Christopher Earl Mibourne, Susan Frisch, Emi Fukuda, Linda
Hughes, Tassia Joannides, Jin Ah Jo, Puneet Jodhka, Erin Keys, Ingrid
Lockley, Chris Massey, Leslie Matthews, Claire O'Halloran, George Plionis,
Nicole Polentas, Jessamy Pollock, Phoebe Porter, Brenda Ridgewell, Amy
Robson, Regine Schwarzer, Mitsue Slattery, Bernadette Trainor, Linda Van
Niekerk, Kathryn Wardill, Andrew Welch and Katherine Wheeler.

Web: www.griffithregionalartgallery.com

Gallery Hours
Wednesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Weekends 10am – 3pm

GOTYA 2009 VIC

" Honorable Mention in Jewellery design category" in GOTYA VIC 2009

Graduate of the year awards 2009 -GOTYA from victoria is organised by Design Institute of Australia. We were asked to send two images of our work which we did during the course of the study.

As I said in my previous post, I made vessels which can also be worn as jewellery. So the first picture present my collection of wearable vessels. The second picture shows the designing process. The renderings are made by hand using water colours and steadler pencils. It is very important to present a visual of the design with different variations to gain initial confidence of the customer.

Judge's Feedback:

My view is that the manufactured work presented is a clever expansion of an age old concenpt. I appreciate the transformation and particularly enjoyed the transformation of the color.

What I would have like to have seen more of a detailed view of the work to enable me asses the quality of the workmanship.

For the pear shape design-rendering i found it challenging to have a clear view. Understanding that this may be conceptual and from what I can see the collar looks potentially stunning, I note that I would be mindfull that these renderings do not fully represent the practicalities of manufacture and would not in my view accurately present the final piece to the client.

Congratulations on your entry and I commend you on your efforts and am ceratin that you have a bright future ahead.

Regards,

Shaylee Mckenzie.

I am glad to receive the feedback and will work more on the details of presentation. There was so much work I wanted to put it which made me compromise with the details, but I will keep this in my mind. Thanks alot for appreciating my work!

I genuinely want to thank my teacher " Lorraine White" who asked me to participate in first place. I am glad that I chose Box Hill Institute of TAFE to study and have such wonderful teachers.

For futher details please visit - www.dia.org.au/content.cfm?id=320

WEARABLE VESSELS

Inspired from the gold boxes of renaissance period, I intended to make boxes which can also be worn as jewellery. This was theme for my graduate exhibition 2009. Goldsmiths of 18th centurn Europe made gold boxes using intricate patterns in high carat gold and it alloys and enamelling techniques. To depict rich color of gold I used 22ct gold plated copper and to show enamelling colors, I used colors of polypropylene plastic.

The above picture is a small box, inspired from vintage purses. It is silver plated copper and when upside down (picture below), it can be worn as a ring and has a hologram beneath

Below is a small vessel which is made by powder coated copper. It can also be worn as a two-finger ring.

This 22ct gold plated copper is a small box and a pendant. I have used green polypropylene plastic to depict green enamelling color. This piece was exhibited in GRADUATE METAL 12 in Perth during 14th Biennial JMGA conference.

This is again 22ct gold plated copper and I have used red polypropylene plastic to depict red enamelling color. This is also a small box and when upside down , it can be worn as a ring (as shown in the picture above). This piece was also exhibited in GRADUATE METAL 12, Perth.

The above box is 22ct gold plated copper and sterling silver with peridot set in bezel. It is inspired from "snuff box" which goldsmiths made during 18th centruy in Europe.

The above piece is a solid sterling silver bangle and stands like a small flower pot.

WHIPPLETREE-2010 (Exhibition)

WHIPPLETREE- A contemporary Jewellery exhibition
at OAK HILL Gallery, Mornington
date-: 29th May to 24th June, 2010
Artists: Kate Marshall, Puneet Jodhka, Jodie Welch, Karyn Nankivell, Misako Sakai, Jane Walker, Stephen Robb and Alicia Hannah Naomi.


The above ring is inspired from the "H" pattern of the whippletree. It is used to harness horses together in formation ; for working a plough.
We created our own whippletree, harnessing together jwellery pieces of eight emerging designers from Victoria. So instead of placing jewellery on shelves or walls, we used the middle of the room and hanged all out pieces.





Sterling silver ring and 9ct gold




Pendant-stainless steel, sterling silver and acrylic





I really want to thank Kate Marshall for organizing everything. Its a great feeling to exhibit with classmates after finishing the course. It keeps us alive!

GRADUATE METAL 12

GRADUATE METAL 12 was survey exhibition of graduating students of Asia, Africa and Australia during 14th biennial conference of Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia , Perth.
(9-11th april, 2010)
I had my two pieces exhibiting (shown above). They are 22ct gold plated copper and polypropylene plastic.


LISA WALKER WORKSHOP - 6,7,8 APRIL 2010This workshop was about collecting any material and manipulating into different jewellery pieces. Everybody had loads of stuff with them to work upon, so first day was quite interesting.

This brooch is made with recycled upholestry.

Lisa walker, i loved her approach towards different materials. She made us work out of our comfort zone and try out something new.

What I learnt during her workshop was that there is load of stuff lying around you. Just pick it up and create a piece!

RE-INTERPRETING ENAMELLING ON SURFACE: ELIZABETH TURRELL

13,14,15 APRIL 2010.

There is a lot of colour in my work which made me to do workshop of enamelling. Elizabeth Turrel workshop was truly amazing. I was the only one who was trying enamelling for first time. On the first day we did Grafito, where we applied wet process enamel on grip coat and when it got dried we did some drawing and played with effects of opaque, translucent and transparent white enamel. Also by using only transparent enamel on copper we can have different colours by firing at different temperature and times. I loved this!

Then we stamped on the metal using normal ink and sift jewellery enamel on it and got these beautiful stamped images. We also mixed different materials in transparent jewellery enamel like beach sand, oxides, graphite, coper flakes and more.........!

The most interesting thing for me was transfer enamels. Printing digital images on transfer paper/decal and then firing onto metal opened my mind to unlimited possibilities of making a piece. Oh my god there is so much to do with enamelling. I will surely pursue it further.

International Awards in 2009

Thailand International jewellery awards 2009- Finalist in Executive category.






SWAROVSKI Enlighten Passion Topaz Jewellery design competition



In 2008, Swarovski conducted an online jewellery design competition where artists from all over the globe were invited to design jewellery around "Passion Topaz" Gemstones produced by Swarovski.

Design (above) was awarded second place in "Passion DeLuxe" Category. It is named "Entangled" as it was inspired from entangled wires of laptop charger,mobile charger, heater lying in my room. (Guess I am not that organised person but my point was that the mess around you inculcates a design of its own.) Hence, the mess of wires in my room gave me a pattern to design.

Passion topaz stones are set in bezel setting in 18ct gold triangles which are beaded in black nylon thread mesh enclosed by lobster clasps at back.

The two-finger design (above) was selected among Top 30 in Basic Passion category. It is named "Moving Colours" as the plates paved with different coloured gemstones rotate and can be worn in different styles.

For more info please click on the following link:

http://enlightened.swarovski.com/#/new-brochure-inspired-by-passion-topaz

AGR Matthey Next Generation Jewellery Design Awards 2008

Pictures from the awards night...

Cuff bangle (below) was awarded Second prize in Red carpet category.

KAISERMAN PRIZE 2009

FINALIST- KAISERMAN PRIZE 2009

9CT Gold ring with Pink Tourmaline and Rhodolite Garnets.