"When our bodies feel uncomfortable, we go to the Doctor, but when the Earth is unwell, we must reimagine a home where humanity and nature blend in harmony."
Artist list
Farrah Al-Dujaili, Jivan Astfalck, Laura Bradshaw-Heap, Laura Brannon, Hannah May Chapman, Lana Crabb, Rachel Darbourne, Nanna Grønborg, Harriet Laurence, Jillian Moore, Zoe Robertson, Louise Thilly, Eva Van Kempen
What lies beneath the ocean?
What is the most dangerous to us in the ocean?
Exactly, how much plastic is there in our oceans?
What goes into the ocean? What goes into you?
Are we doing enough to control our waste?
Can we be part of the solutions?
Plastic is Forever would enable the restaurant SILO to become a repository to remind the awareness about the concepts of plastic pollution in the ocean during Brighton Fringe 2016. The Plastic is Forever will be an incubator on display and open to everyone. Plastic is Forever aims to create a platform where new jewellery movement will be introduced and jewellery made from unwanted materials will be exhibited, but at the same time, publicly tested.
Modern makers explore materials with a different point of view than before. Swedish born Louise Thilly graduated from Design & Craft (BA Hons) at Brighton University. She specialises in wood and plastic, stemming from a desire to utilize sustainable as well as waste materials prominent in society, highlighting various ideas of sustainability in her work. Fascinated by ancient and traditional craft techniques, she often explores how modern design and materials can be complemented by ancient skill and wisdom.
Through recycling waste plastics, she is able to explore many design possibilities far beyond the disposable functions they were often intended for, and through this aims to challenge throw-away culture, by highlighting the beauty and strengths of this undervalued material. Exploring opportunities in materials has always been an underpinning theme in her work, and is a continuing process and journey.
Harriet Laurence, an MA student of Sustainable Design, specialising in jewellery, at Brighton University, seeks where is the gold?
JUNK: Rubbish to Gold, is a playful exploration of community economies, which put on display the process of creating the work of art. It aims to foster and develop multilayered networks, challenging and extending jewellery as a medium to communicate with the public and and deepen our understanding of the impact of the arts. This project partnered with charities, who supplied JUNK jewellery. During a public performance of thirty-one jewellers gifted their skills, reconstructing pieces selected from a mountain of JUNK creating reimagined artworks for the exhibitions. The performance was live-streamed on screens in the mac Birmingham and the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and across the world.
(See streaming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U--__TLQc_c)
Eva van Kempen is a Dutch goldsmith - designer, whose earlier work consists of merely traditional goldsmithing techniques, such as filigree, wax carving and embossing. Nature, indigenous jewellery and Art Nouveau still influence her design as well as used to. Her recent work and source of inspiration, however, is anything but traditional. The content finds its origin in a chemotherapy she had to undergo. That was when she discovered the immense value and beauty of medical tools such as hypodermic needles and intravenous lines.
She started experimenting with safe hospital waste, like out of date systems or materials otherwise no longer suitable for patients. By adding classical materials such as fresh water pearls, precious stones and metals, valuable jewels appeared.
New Jewellery Movement
From early humans and the rise of civilisation to the modern history of Renaissance to the contemporary Industrial revolutions and the digital age, humankind is evolving, this is also true of jewellery. People who have not followed developments in jewellery may be surprised at the variety of design and materials now in use. The boundaries of jewellery have been constantly reformed since 1960s. From materials, techniques, ornaments and functions, to the relationship between the wearer and the object. This relationship has always been an interesting topic since jewellery developed into a wearable art form. It does not overturn the traditional value of the object itself, but expands the meaning of jewellery beyond body adornment. These new meanings focus more on concepts deriving from the jewellery objects.
UK Craft Council: The New Jewellery movement of the 1970s saw jewellers using non-precious materials and experimental design to highlight contemporary social and political issues. This shifted our idea of what jewellery could be and had a profound impact on future making both in the UK and beyond.
SILO , UK's pioneer zero-waste restaurant, was conceived from a desire to innovate the food industry whilst demonstrating respect: respect for the environment, respect for the way our food is generated and respect for the nourishment given to our bodies. This means that we create everything from its whole form cutting out food miles and over-processing whilst preserving nutrients and the integrity of the ingridents in the process.
Published at Klimt02
Farrah Al-Dujaili, Jivan Astfalck, Laura Bradshaw-Heap, Laura Brannon, Hannah May Chapman, Lana Crabb, Rachel Darbourne, Nanna Grønborg, Harriet Laurence, Jillian Moore, Zoe Robertson, Louise Thilly, Eva Van Kempen
What lies beneath the ocean?
What is the most dangerous to us in the ocean?
Exactly, how much plastic is there in our oceans?
What goes into the ocean? What goes into you?
Are we doing enough to control our waste?
Can we be part of the solutions?
Plastic is Forever would enable the restaurant SILO to become a repository to remind the awareness about the concepts of plastic pollution in the ocean during Brighton Fringe 2016. The Plastic is Forever will be an incubator on display and open to everyone. Plastic is Forever aims to create a platform where new jewellery movement will be introduced and jewellery made from unwanted materials will be exhibited, but at the same time, publicly tested.
Modern makers explore materials with a different point of view than before. Swedish born Louise Thilly graduated from Design & Craft (BA Hons) at Brighton University. She specialises in wood and plastic, stemming from a desire to utilize sustainable as well as waste materials prominent in society, highlighting various ideas of sustainability in her work. Fascinated by ancient and traditional craft techniques, she often explores how modern design and materials can be complemented by ancient skill and wisdom.
Through recycling waste plastics, she is able to explore many design possibilities far beyond the disposable functions they were often intended for, and through this aims to challenge throw-away culture, by highlighting the beauty and strengths of this undervalued material. Exploring opportunities in materials has always been an underpinning theme in her work, and is a continuing process and journey.
Harriet Laurence, an MA student of Sustainable Design, specialising in jewellery, at Brighton University, seeks where is the gold?
JUNK: Rubbish to Gold, is a playful exploration of community economies, which put on display the process of creating the work of art. It aims to foster and develop multilayered networks, challenging and extending jewellery as a medium to communicate with the public and and deepen our understanding of the impact of the arts. This project partnered with charities, who supplied JUNK jewellery. During a public performance of thirty-one jewellers gifted their skills, reconstructing pieces selected from a mountain of JUNK creating reimagined artworks for the exhibitions. The performance was live-streamed on screens in the mac Birmingham and the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and across the world.
(See streaming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U--__TLQc_c)
Eva van Kempen is a Dutch goldsmith - designer, whose earlier work consists of merely traditional goldsmithing techniques, such as filigree, wax carving and embossing. Nature, indigenous jewellery and Art Nouveau still influence her design as well as used to. Her recent work and source of inspiration, however, is anything but traditional. The content finds its origin in a chemotherapy she had to undergo. That was when she discovered the immense value and beauty of medical tools such as hypodermic needles and intravenous lines.
She started experimenting with safe hospital waste, like out of date systems or materials otherwise no longer suitable for patients. By adding classical materials such as fresh water pearls, precious stones and metals, valuable jewels appeared.
New Jewellery Movement
From early humans and the rise of civilisation to the modern history of Renaissance to the contemporary Industrial revolutions and the digital age, humankind is evolving, this is also true of jewellery. People who have not followed developments in jewellery may be surprised at the variety of design and materials now in use. The boundaries of jewellery have been constantly reformed since 1960s. From materials, techniques, ornaments and functions, to the relationship between the wearer and the object. This relationship has always been an interesting topic since jewellery developed into a wearable art form. It does not overturn the traditional value of the object itself, but expands the meaning of jewellery beyond body adornment. These new meanings focus more on concepts deriving from the jewellery objects.
UK Craft Council: The New Jewellery movement of the 1970s saw jewellers using non-precious materials and experimental design to highlight contemporary social and political issues. This shifted our idea of what jewellery could be and had a profound impact on future making both in the UK and beyond.
SILO , UK's pioneer zero-waste restaurant, was conceived from a desire to innovate the food industry whilst demonstrating respect: respect for the environment, respect for the way our food is generated and respect for the nourishment given to our bodies. This means that we create everything from its whole form cutting out food miles and over-processing whilst preserving nutrients and the integrity of the ingridents in the process.
Published at Klimt02
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