Bella Dower, Visible Absence, 2018, Anodised aluminium, copper, dental wire Photo: Bella Dower

Wayfaring

Zoe Veness
Sarah Stubbs
Sara Lindsay
Bella Dower 

13– 15 September 

Friday-Saturday 11-5pm 
Sunday 1-5pm

(OPENING)

Sun 15 September, 3-7pm

at 

studio xl_xs

8 Wharf St 
Docklands 3008 

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

Zoë Veness, A landscape of our own making, 2017, Copper, brass, sterling silver Average size: 3 x 2.6 x 1 cm Photo: Peter Whyte

Bella Dower, Sara Lindsay, Sarah Stubbs and Zoë Veness met as students and lecturers in 2016 at the School of Creative Arts and Media, UTAS in Hobart and have since shared interests in object-making and the field of contemporary jewellery. In Wayfaring they explore ideas about memory and place through iterative forms of making using distinct materials and methods. 

Bella Dower is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist who investigates the shifting nature of autobiographic memory and the process of remembrance through a range of jewellery and wall objects. Sara Lindsay, also an emerging designer, draws from her skills as a furniture-maker to explore permutations of sculptural geometry using digital manufacturing methods.

Both Sarah Stubbs and Zoë Veness are contemporary jewellers and design academics interested in notions of place. Sarah creates jewellery that re-interprets historical artefacts from museum collections while Zoë utilises metal-smithing processes and photography to explore the materiality of landscapes.

Sarah Stubbs, Oyster Coupling, 2016, Silver, cord Photo: Sarah Stubbs

(ABOUT THE ARTISTS)
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Zoë Veness is a contemporary jeweller and object maker. Her work has been exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Singapore, London, Scotland, and Germany, and is held in public collections at the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of South Australia. She was a recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award for PhD research at UNSW Art & Design in Sydney in 2011 and Australia Council Visual Arts Grants in 2002, 2006 and 2017. Currently a lecturer at UNSW Art & Design, Zoë was previously Studio Coordinator of 3D Design at the School of Creative Arts and Media, UTAS in Hobart. 

Sarah Stubbs is a contemporary jeweller interested in intersections between design and visual arts. She has worked within the visual arts for the past twenty years both as a collaborative and solo artist. Sarah has had her work represented in numerous exhibitions locally and overseas including the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, West Space, Para/Site Art Space Hong Kong, Annandale Galleries, Centre for Contemporary Photography, the Ian Potter Gallery, RMIT, and Monash University’s Switchback and Faculty Gallery. Sarah is currently Lecturer at the School of Creative Arts and Media, UTAS in Hobart.

Sara Lindsay is an emerging Hobart-based artist, designer and object maker. Her work has been selected for exhibitions including the Clarence Prize for Excellence in Furniture Design in 2017 and the Hobart City Council Design Award in 2016. She received the Jim Bacon Memorial Scholarship and the Jonathan Holmes Scholarship, both from UTAS, in 2015. Sara is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at UTAS, School of Creative Arts and Media where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 2015.

Bella Dower is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Hobart, Tasmania. By drawing on a variety of materials and processes her work aims to visualise elusive subjects, focusing on memory and temporality. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 2018 from the University of Tasmania, School of Creative Arts and Media, and awards including the Cultural Environments and Heritage Honours Scholarship in 2018, the UTAS Dean’s Honour Role in 2017.​