VISITORS
Left: Noon Passama, No. 5, 2017, bracelet, Epoxy, silver-plated and cast porcelain, 26 x 2,8 cm. Photo: Herman Winter. Right: Manon van Kouswijk, brooch, 2014, silver and steel, 5 x 5 x 1.5 cm Photo: Manon van Kouswijk
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Map reference number: 71
Sutton Gallery
254 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Tue–Sat 11am–5pm Sarah Scout Presents Lvl 1, 12 Collins St, Melbourne Wed–Sat 12–5pm Daine Singer Basement 325 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Wed–Fri 12–5pm, Sat 12–4pm Neon Parc 1/53 Bourke St, Melbourne Wed–Fri 11am–5pm, Sat 12–5pm 26 August – 2 September
Artist/s: Benedikt Fischer & Benjamin Woods, Manon van Kouswijk & Noon Passama, Clementine Edwards & Jantje Fleischhut, Flora Vagi & Meredith Turnbull, Rebecca Thomas & Debris Facility
Curators: Manon van Kouswijk & Meredith Turnbull |
VISITORS is a proposed group project featuring 10 local and International artists presented across 4 gallery spaces. VISITORS will present a series of jewellery artworks that act as intermediaries or as portable wearable messages moving between gallery space and audience. The aim of our project is to initiate a dialogue across disciplines and contexts that will engage the audiences of some of Melbourne’s most dynamic inner city contemporary art spaces with the Radiant Pavilion audience and participants.
Participating galleries are Daine Singer, Sarah Scout Presents, Neon Parc and Sutton. The aim is for the works to be ‘visitors’ that will 'infiltrate’ the venue and for the gallery to ‘host’ this small collection of artworks. The project will also have a performative aspect as gallery staff will activate individual jewellery pieces as they are invited on a daily basis to choose and wear the jewellery pieces during the exhibition period.
Participating galleries are Daine Singer, Sarah Scout Presents, Neon Parc and Sutton. The aim is for the works to be ‘visitors’ that will 'infiltrate’ the venue and for the gallery to ‘host’ this small collection of artworks. The project will also have a performative aspect as gallery staff will activate individual jewellery pieces as they are invited on a daily basis to choose and wear the jewellery pieces during the exhibition period.
a. Noon Passama, No.5, 2017, epoxy silver-plated, 26 x 2,8 cm. Photo: Herman de Winter
b. Manon van Kouswijk, Ornamental Residue, 2014, cast porcelain silver and steel, 5 x 5 x 1,5 cm. Photo: Manon van Kouswijk
b. Manon van Kouswijk, Ornamental Residue, 2014, cast porcelain silver and steel, 5 x 5 x 1,5 cm. Photo: Manon van Kouswijk
About the Artist
Meredith Turnbull is a Melbourne based visual artist, curator, writer and jeweller. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Honours in Art History at La Trobe University in 2000 and a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University in 2005. Meredith also holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash University in the Faculty of Art and Design. Meredith was also co-editor of un Magazine issue 10.1. Meredith’s work engages various scales, art historical traditions and artistic genres – and creates connections between images, jewellery, decorative objects and sculptural components through spatial practice. Meredith is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.
Manon van Kouswijk is a Dutch artist jeweller who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where she held the position of Head of the Jewellery Department before relocating to Australia in 2010. Her working methodology is based on exploring and translating archetypal jewellery forms and motifs through a range of materials and processes. An integral aspect of her practice is the framing and contextualising of her work through the making of exhibitions and artist publications often in collaboration with other practitioners. Her most recent publication is "Findings', published in Melbourne in 2015.
Born and raised in Bangkok, Noon Passama moved to the Netherlands in 2007, where she graduated as a jewellery maker from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2010. Since then, her works have been exhibited in respected institutions and platforms, such as Design Museum in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and Design Miami. Passama works and collaborates across different genres of jewellery. Her main interest is based on existing jewellery types in connection to broader subjects, for example, identity and language. The contexts she sets for recent projects are frameworks of research in form.
Jantje Fleischhut is born in Germany in 1972, she lives and works as an independent jewellery artist in Amsterdam and Düsseldorf. Fleischhut followed a technical goldsmith training and gained working experience in a product design studio in Germany, before she moved to Amsterdam in 1997 where she studied jewellery design and applied arts (BA - Rietveld Academy; MA - Sandberg Institute). After several years of teaching experience in the Netherlands and abroad Jantje Fleischhut is since September 2016 the new Professor of Jewellery Design at Peter Behrens School of Art, University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf.
The Debris Facility Pty Ltd undertook a Parasitic Corporate Takeover of some flesh and Neurons in 2015. Through processes to Amplify Processes of Resource Re-purposing, Affective labour exchanges, De-materialisation of Value, and Mutations through Transport and Logistics, we hope to Ease journey through Time and Space. The Facility utilises a Haptic program of Alterations to objects and contexts,to hold open spaces for Speculative being and Discoarse. The Facility staff aim to provide High Quality services to its Stakeholders in Any Means Engaged. Standards of Excellence will be weaponised to Address any and all Situations The Facility will Encounter: the Adsorption and Parasitic Methods generate a Sumptuous Platter to Feast on Benjamin Woods (b 1988) is alive in Narrm/Melbourne. Contact: benjaminwds@gmail.com
Rebecca Thomas is a Melbourne based artist. Thomas is concerned with jewellery that can also function as autonomous sculptural objects when not worn on the body. Utilising traditional hand skills including intricate saw piercing and enamelling she draws from decorative arts of the medieval period, early modernist design, pagan and Christian symbolism. Thomas completed an Advanced Diploma of Interior Design at TAFE 2008-2010 and undertook a Bachelor of Industrial Design, RMIT University between 2012-2013 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Object Based Practice) at RMIT from 2014.
Benedikt Fischer (Fraham 1984) has been making jewellery since he was a teenager. Altought trained as a traditional goldsmith in his native Austria, he soon realized that he held a more open view of his craft. After seeing the work of alumni of Amsterdam´s Gerrit Rietveld Academy in a Viennese jewellery gallery, he relocated to Amsterdam to contiunue his studies. Both the Rietveld and Fischer´s traditional training have left a mark on him, as his work combines goldsmithing techniques with a variety of uncommon materials, often already existing objects that have a place and a meaning in our society.
Flóra Vági is a Hungarian contemporary jewellery- and object maker. She studied at Alchimia Jewellery School in Florence. In 2008 she gained her MA degree at the Royal College of Art in London. She currently lives and works in Hungary, and is doing a PhD in sculpture. Her works are contemplative and attempt to turn the organic materials she is using into forms that often recall the material’s original nature. There are elements of mimicry of other materials, balancing between natural and artificially made to ‘deceive’ the viewer and trigger questions. She participates in exhibitions in galleries and museums internationally.
Clementine Edwards is an artist, jeweller and editor from Melbourne. Her jewellery speaks of the messy, bodily intersection between craft and art. She does not regard her works as autonomous, since they materialise and memorialise interpersonal interactions. They bear the traces of her daily life, her social exchanges major and minor, and her broader political considerations. Viewing invites intimacy. Recently, she has been considering the act of giving and receiving, of consent, and how we wear things – trauma, jewellery, whatever – on the body. Clementine lives in Rotterdam and is undertaking her MA at the Dutch Art Institute. clementineedwards.com
Meredith Turnbull is a Melbourne based visual artist, curator, writer and jeweller. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Honours in Art History at La Trobe University in 2000 and a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University in 2005. Meredith also holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash University in the Faculty of Art and Design. Meredith was also co-editor of un Magazine issue 10.1. Meredith’s work engages various scales, art historical traditions and artistic genres – and creates connections between images, jewellery, decorative objects and sculptural components through spatial practice. Meredith is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.
Manon van Kouswijk is a Dutch artist jeweller who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where she held the position of Head of the Jewellery Department before relocating to Australia in 2010. Her working methodology is based on exploring and translating archetypal jewellery forms and motifs through a range of materials and processes. An integral aspect of her practice is the framing and contextualising of her work through the making of exhibitions and artist publications often in collaboration with other practitioners. Her most recent publication is "Findings', published in Melbourne in 2015.
Born and raised in Bangkok, Noon Passama moved to the Netherlands in 2007, where she graduated as a jewellery maker from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2010. Since then, her works have been exhibited in respected institutions and platforms, such as Design Museum in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and Design Miami. Passama works and collaborates across different genres of jewellery. Her main interest is based on existing jewellery types in connection to broader subjects, for example, identity and language. The contexts she sets for recent projects are frameworks of research in form.
Jantje Fleischhut is born in Germany in 1972, she lives and works as an independent jewellery artist in Amsterdam and Düsseldorf. Fleischhut followed a technical goldsmith training and gained working experience in a product design studio in Germany, before she moved to Amsterdam in 1997 where she studied jewellery design and applied arts (BA - Rietveld Academy; MA - Sandberg Institute). After several years of teaching experience in the Netherlands and abroad Jantje Fleischhut is since September 2016 the new Professor of Jewellery Design at Peter Behrens School of Art, University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf.
The Debris Facility Pty Ltd undertook a Parasitic Corporate Takeover of some flesh and Neurons in 2015. Through processes to Amplify Processes of Resource Re-purposing, Affective labour exchanges, De-materialisation of Value, and Mutations through Transport and Logistics, we hope to Ease journey through Time and Space. The Facility utilises a Haptic program of Alterations to objects and contexts,to hold open spaces for Speculative being and Discoarse. The Facility staff aim to provide High Quality services to its Stakeholders in Any Means Engaged. Standards of Excellence will be weaponised to Address any and all Situations The Facility will Encounter: the Adsorption and Parasitic Methods generate a Sumptuous Platter to Feast on Benjamin Woods (b 1988) is alive in Narrm/Melbourne. Contact: benjaminwds@gmail.com
Rebecca Thomas is a Melbourne based artist. Thomas is concerned with jewellery that can also function as autonomous sculptural objects when not worn on the body. Utilising traditional hand skills including intricate saw piercing and enamelling she draws from decorative arts of the medieval period, early modernist design, pagan and Christian symbolism. Thomas completed an Advanced Diploma of Interior Design at TAFE 2008-2010 and undertook a Bachelor of Industrial Design, RMIT University between 2012-2013 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Object Based Practice) at RMIT from 2014.
Benedikt Fischer (Fraham 1984) has been making jewellery since he was a teenager. Altought trained as a traditional goldsmith in his native Austria, he soon realized that he held a more open view of his craft. After seeing the work of alumni of Amsterdam´s Gerrit Rietveld Academy in a Viennese jewellery gallery, he relocated to Amsterdam to contiunue his studies. Both the Rietveld and Fischer´s traditional training have left a mark on him, as his work combines goldsmithing techniques with a variety of uncommon materials, often already existing objects that have a place and a meaning in our society.
Flóra Vági is a Hungarian contemporary jewellery- and object maker. She studied at Alchimia Jewellery School in Florence. In 2008 she gained her MA degree at the Royal College of Art in London. She currently lives and works in Hungary, and is doing a PhD in sculpture. Her works are contemplative and attempt to turn the organic materials she is using into forms that often recall the material’s original nature. There are elements of mimicry of other materials, balancing between natural and artificially made to ‘deceive’ the viewer and trigger questions. She participates in exhibitions in galleries and museums internationally.
Clementine Edwards is an artist, jeweller and editor from Melbourne. Her jewellery speaks of the messy, bodily intersection between craft and art. She does not regard her works as autonomous, since they materialise and memorialise interpersonal interactions. They bear the traces of her daily life, her social exchanges major and minor, and her broader political considerations. Viewing invites intimacy. Recently, she has been considering the act of giving and receiving, of consent, and how we wear things – trauma, jewellery, whatever – on the body. Clementine lives in Rotterdam and is undertaking her MA at the Dutch Art Institute. clementineedwards.com
