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Amelia Marks, Vertical Garden, 2017, 90 x 70 x 20mm, Sublimation printed aluminium, sterling silver, stainless steel. Photo: Amelia Marks
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Map reference number: 24
The Alley
(the alley on the right side of the building) 200 Argyle St, Fitzroy 26 August – 3 September
Daily 11am–5.30pm Opening: Fri 1 September, 3–5.30pm
Artist/s: Amelia Marks, Dunnielle Mina, Karina Leddin & Kellie Joy Barnes
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Four jewellers, unified by their interest in the intersection of artifice and the natural world, utilise a forgotten laneway in the heart of Fitzroy. Works destined to occupy the landscape of the body are recontextualised to adorn this vacant space, challenging the notion that the constructed environment is separate from nature. In response to the idea of the city as devoid of natural beauty, this intervention explores the potential for connectedness and interplay between people, the natural environment and urban spaces. Artefacts created as a personal response to the natural world are installed in this impersonal and artificial context creating a surprising sanctuary. The resulting installation explores the possibility of finding solace, regeneration and respite in unexpected forgotten urban places.
a. Karina Leddin, Dark side of the moon, 2017, Stg Silver, Size M (46 x 46 x 29mm), Photo by artist.
b. Amelia Marks, Barophile, 2016, sterling silver, paint, stainless steel, 70mm x 80mm x 20mm, and Halophile, 2016, sterling silver, paint, stainless steel, 80mm x 80mm x 15mm. Photo: Amelia Marks.
c. Karina Leddin, Untitled, 2017, slate, sterling silver, stainless steel, 60 x 58 x 14mm, Photo: Karina Leddin.
d. Kellie Joy Barnes, Root/Sprout, 2016, Fine silver, Stg Silver, Size J, 400mm x 100mm x 60mm, Photo: Andrew Barcham
e. Dunnielle Mina, Untitled, 2017, sterling silver, 24k gold foil, 48mm x 22mm x 15mm, Photo: Chamundi Phoenix
b. Amelia Marks, Barophile, 2016, sterling silver, paint, stainless steel, 70mm x 80mm x 20mm, and Halophile, 2016, sterling silver, paint, stainless steel, 80mm x 80mm x 15mm. Photo: Amelia Marks.
c. Karina Leddin, Untitled, 2017, slate, sterling silver, stainless steel, 60 x 58 x 14mm, Photo: Karina Leddin.
d. Kellie Joy Barnes, Root/Sprout, 2016, Fine silver, Stg Silver, Size J, 400mm x 100mm x 60mm, Photo: Andrew Barcham
e. Dunnielle Mina, Untitled, 2017, sterling silver, 24k gold foil, 48mm x 22mm x 15mm, Photo: Chamundi Phoenix
About the Artist
Contemporary jeweller Amelia Marks works across a range of precious and alternative materials to produce work that is bold, colour-filled, and easy to wear. Her work is inspired by biological and botanical illustrations, and demonstrates a sense of structure and order balanced with the softer organic forms of nature. Amelia graduated from Melbourne Polytechnic's Advanced Diploma of Object and Jewellery Design with High Distinction in 2016, and currently works part-time from her space in River Studios in Melbourne’s West.
As a Melbourne based jeweller, Dunnielle Mina incorporates her professional background in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Architectural Lighting Design. Fascinated by the embodied harmony that emerges through a balance of polarity, Dunnielle harnesses this professional experience with an aim to experiment with architectural objects, exploring adornment as shelter. Working predominantly with precious metals, metal folding techniques and a process oriented discovery of form, Dunnielle creates small scale objects that radiate their hidden properties through somatic responses to their beholders.
Kellie Joy Barnes is an emerging jewellery artist living and working in Eltham, having graduated last year from Melbourne Polytechnic's Advanced Diploma of Object and Jewellery Design. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Ceramics) from RMIT. Her creative practice is driven by an intuitive process of personal expression and exploration of materials, along with a fascination with the intimate and sensual nature of jewellery as artwork made for the body.
Karina Leddin is an emerging contemporary jeweller based in Melbourne. Her work explores the relationship we have with nature living in an urban environment. This immersion has had a profound influence on her artistic practice, taking inspiration from contemporary architecture and modern, minimalistic design and contrasting these qualities with organic colours, textures and patterns, integrating organic materials and found objects with traditional metals like gold, silver and copper. Her work is designed to evoke the beauty in nature, to create a new appreciation for the everyday, and to find something truly breathtaking in our urban surroundings.
Contemporary jeweller Amelia Marks works across a range of precious and alternative materials to produce work that is bold, colour-filled, and easy to wear. Her work is inspired by biological and botanical illustrations, and demonstrates a sense of structure and order balanced with the softer organic forms of nature. Amelia graduated from Melbourne Polytechnic's Advanced Diploma of Object and Jewellery Design with High Distinction in 2016, and currently works part-time from her space in River Studios in Melbourne’s West.
As a Melbourne based jeweller, Dunnielle Mina incorporates her professional background in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Architectural Lighting Design. Fascinated by the embodied harmony that emerges through a balance of polarity, Dunnielle harnesses this professional experience with an aim to experiment with architectural objects, exploring adornment as shelter. Working predominantly with precious metals, metal folding techniques and a process oriented discovery of form, Dunnielle creates small scale objects that radiate their hidden properties through somatic responses to their beholders.
Kellie Joy Barnes is an emerging jewellery artist living and working in Eltham, having graduated last year from Melbourne Polytechnic's Advanced Diploma of Object and Jewellery Design. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Ceramics) from RMIT. Her creative practice is driven by an intuitive process of personal expression and exploration of materials, along with a fascination with the intimate and sensual nature of jewellery as artwork made for the body.
Karina Leddin is an emerging contemporary jeweller based in Melbourne. Her work explores the relationship we have with nature living in an urban environment. This immersion has had a profound influence on her artistic practice, taking inspiration from contemporary architecture and modern, minimalistic design and contrasting these qualities with organic colours, textures and patterns, integrating organic materials and found objects with traditional metals like gold, silver and copper. Her work is designed to evoke the beauty in nature, to create a new appreciation for the everyday, and to find something truly breathtaking in our urban surroundings.
