Studio XL>XS, Naarm (Melbourne)

Radiant Pavilion: Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery & Object Biennial

13-15 September 2019

Craft + Design Canberra, Ngunnawal (Canberra)

26 March - 9 May 2020

In wayfaring [...] one follows a path that one has previously travelled in the company of others, or in their footsteps, reconstructing the itinerary as one goes along. - Tim Ingold (2016) Lines, A Brief History, London: Routledge, p.77.

Wayfaring explores sensory manifestations of place through notions of time and travelling as a means to further understand and connect with the material world.

Key to the project is an emphasis on the ‘way’ or the process of making objects which draws attention to iterative and intuitive making practices and idiosyncratic material engagements.

Working with three other artists, Sarah Stubbs, Bella Dower and Sara Lindsay, who I first met at the University of Tasmania in Nipaluna/Hobart, the project has involved two exhibitions in September 2019 and March 2020.

The first exhibition at Studio XL>XS showed iterative studies in jewellery and vessel forms with metal and porcelain. Table displays allowed viewers to engage directly with the works.

For the second show at Craft + Design Canberra, Bella Dower and Sara Lindsay, the emerging artists in the group, chose to create new jewellery pieces while Sarah Stubbs focused on hybrid vessel assemblages in porcelain. https://craftact.org.au/blogs/past-exhibitions-2020/wayfaring

For both exhibitions, I created a series of vessel forms using silversmithing methods that attempt to encapsulate a sense of movement through form and matter. These vessel objects are intended to be held and to contain precious things.

Images of my vessels by Peter Whyte Photography

Image of Wayfaring at Craft + Design Canberra by @_5foot Photography