I went to Craft Victoria the other day to see three shows by three different jewellers.
The first is “Melancholic Nights/Arcadian Daze” by Stephen Gallagher. The show reflects upon the spirit of the Elizabethan Era, its poetry, and the who's who of the ornaments of the court. It is a very exciting show...both his work and how he display them. I wish i have a camera with me to take show photo and show you. It is very hard to explain by writing. I like his work a lot and i think of it as a wearable art than jewelery or accessories.
The second show is “Love You More Than Life” by Irene Grishin-Selzer, a ceramic show (Yippee!). Irene also run Iggy and Loulou a fashion accessories studio. She use skulls to present classic tensions between love and loss; pleasure and fear; beauty and death. Her accessories range is very successful too. My Thai friends like her accessories work a lot. I also enjoy her show as well.
And the last show at Craft Victoria is “Buena Vista” by Anna Davern. I think this is my favorite one. Anna uses vintage biscuit tins to exploits the political import of the silhouette. She manipulate the tin buy cutting some part away turn it into an object of adornment, whilst the hollow spaces left behind trace a troubling relationship to national identity. Anna create a little theater stage in her little metal biscuit tin. I think her work is very witty and fun.
The next show that i will check out is a show by Lynda Draper at Gallery Smith. It seem like a new gallery. I never herd of it before but i have known Lynda work for a long time and long to have one in my collection. I think her works is very beautiful. I don’t know her personally but i would love to meet her.....as may be she might like to swap her work with me.....this is how i grow my ceramic collection :)
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