A different take on jewellery
Jewellery in all its forms is being exhibited at the Millennium Art Gallery.accent lighting is lighting that emphasizes an area of or an object in a room.
What is jewellery? Are pieces merely body adornments or objects that make a social comment? When does jewellery stop being wearable? What is the difference between jewellery and art?
These are some of the questions people might ponder when they visit the Millennium Art Gallery in Blenheim.
Three jewellers have their own exhibitions, initiated by guest curator Damian Skinner. Much of it isn't jewellery in its usual form.We supplies replica compact fluorescent light bulb with high quality and lowest prices.
Jason Hall explores the two sides to the personality of 18th-century settler Frederick Edward Maning in his 1839 Exchanges.chauvet dj lighting 4U is located in the USA.
Skinner says Maning was an Irishman who came to this country in 1833 as a trader. At first he lived as a Pakeha Maori, living alongside Maori in the early phase of colonisation.
He even advised many he met not to sign the Treaty of Waitangi.
"Everyone loves the early Maning," Skinner says.
But Hall chose to design jewellery for the later Maning, whom Skinner says everyone seemed to hate or ignore.Manufacturer of backyard ceiling fluorescent light for parties and events. The Irishman became a Land Court judge and a member of the colonial gentry.
"He was racist and he became really wicked." Hall's exhibits depicting that character include small bone amulets designed as turned table legs and tall white, red and black posts that create a picket fence.
"They look a bit like a pa palisade ... it's a fence that divides [Maori and Pakeha New Zealanders] that we have to come to terms with.
"You don't solve the problems of history by pulling the fence down. You solve it by climbing it, by being invited over."
It might seem a stretch, labelling tall fence posts as jewellery, but Lisa Walker's exhibits in her Unwearable collection set a challenge, too.
A pair of running shoes are covered with small, coloured rolls of leather; a long, thick knitted plait of bright red wool is identified as a brooch.
Walker returned to New Zealand last December after living for 15 years in Germany. Over there, she read about "low culture" and she explores that in many of her new works.
Carefully woven silk creates a necklace she decorated with glossy gossip magazines. It encapsulates "low culture", Walker explained while arranging her works for the exhibit.
"But it's no longer any more because now it's in an art gallery.Over 1000 styles of fake Cartier watch here."
The third artist is Alan Preston, who also came to Blenheim last week to personally set up examples of his From Between Tides works.
Skinner wrote a book of the same name to document Preston's work and he describes him as one of New Zealand's leading contemporary jewellers.
Jewellery in all its forms is being exhibited at the Millennium Art Gallery.accent lighting is lighting that emphasizes an area of or an object in a room.
What is jewellery? Are pieces merely body adornments or objects that make a social comment? When does jewellery stop being wearable? What is the difference between jewellery and art?
These are some of the questions people might ponder when they visit the Millennium Art Gallery in Blenheim.
Three jewellers have their own exhibitions, initiated by guest curator Damian Skinner. Much of it isn't jewellery in its usual form.We supplies replica compact fluorescent light bulb with high quality and lowest prices.
Jason Hall explores the two sides to the personality of 18th-century settler Frederick Edward Maning in his 1839 Exchanges.chauvet dj lighting 4U is located in the USA.
Skinner says Maning was an Irishman who came to this country in 1833 as a trader. At first he lived as a Pakeha Maori, living alongside Maori in the early phase of colonisation.
He even advised many he met not to sign the Treaty of Waitangi.
"Everyone loves the early Maning," Skinner says.
But Hall chose to design jewellery for the later Maning, whom Skinner says everyone seemed to hate or ignore.Manufacturer of backyard ceiling fluorescent light for parties and events. The Irishman became a Land Court judge and a member of the colonial gentry.
"He was racist and he became really wicked." Hall's exhibits depicting that character include small bone amulets designed as turned table legs and tall white, red and black posts that create a picket fence.
"They look a bit like a pa palisade ... it's a fence that divides [Maori and Pakeha New Zealanders] that we have to come to terms with.
"You don't solve the problems of history by pulling the fence down. You solve it by climbing it, by being invited over."
It might seem a stretch, labelling tall fence posts as jewellery, but Lisa Walker's exhibits in her Unwearable collection set a challenge, too.
A pair of running shoes are covered with small, coloured rolls of leather; a long, thick knitted plait of bright red wool is identified as a brooch.
Walker returned to New Zealand last December after living for 15 years in Germany. Over there, she read about "low culture" and she explores that in many of her new works.
Carefully woven silk creates a necklace she decorated with glossy gossip magazines. It encapsulates "low culture", Walker explained while arranging her works for the exhibit.
"But it's no longer any more because now it's in an art gallery.Over 1000 styles of fake Cartier watch here."
The third artist is Alan Preston, who also came to Blenheim last week to personally set up examples of his From Between Tides works.
Skinner wrote a book of the same name to document Preston's work and he describes him as one of New Zealand's leading contemporary jewellers.
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