Wondernamel : Decade
Ann Welton, Traces of the Past, 5 vessels, copper, enamel, 2016, copper, enamel. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
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Map reference number: 77
First Site Gallery
Storey Hall Basement 344 Swanston St, Melbourne 22 August – 1 September
Tue–Fri 11am–5pm Opening: Tue 22 August, 5-7pm
Artist talk: Fri 1 September, 1pm Artist/s: Alumni & Student of RMIT Gold & Silversmithing
Curator: Dr Kirsten Haydon |
Wondernamel began in 2007 and celebrates a decade. This group exhibition of contemporary enamelling in Australia developed from a celebration and now has continued for a decade. The artists exhibiting in Wondernamel 2017, work in diverse ways making original work in the area of enamelling. Wondernamel is an invented word connecting the use of enamel by the artists using the notion of the curiosity cabinet or wonder room. The exhibitors are undergraduate, postgraduate students and alumni from Object based Practice Gold and Silversmithing.
a. Sharon Mc Entee, Wend One's Way, 2016, Copper, Stainless Steel, Enamel (Vessel). Photo: Jeremy Dillon
b. Yuan Wei, Chinese Landscape neckpiece, 3D Printed ABS, enamelling painting, cloisonné, sliver, nylon rope. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
b. Yuan Wei, Chinese Landscape neckpiece, 3D Printed ABS, enamelling painting, cloisonné, sliver, nylon rope. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
About the Artist
Dr Kirsten Haydon is the Studio Coordinator for Object based Practice, Gold & Silversmithing and Ceramics and Haydons research explores the possibities of enamel in a studio practice. She has been lecturing in the School of Art since 2005. Receiving numerous grants and awards for her teaching and studio practice. Her work is now collected in international public collections including Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Ville de Cagnes, France, Antarctica New Zealand, Christchurch, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, The Dowse, Wellington and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
Dr Kirsten Haydon is the Studio Coordinator for Object based Practice, Gold & Silversmithing and Ceramics and Haydons research explores the possibities of enamel in a studio practice. She has been lecturing in the School of Art since 2005. Receiving numerous grants and awards for her teaching and studio practice. Her work is now collected in international public collections including Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Ville de Cagnes, France, Antarctica New Zealand, Christchurch, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, The Dowse, Wellington and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.