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Remade-Reloved 2023
Curated by Bridget Kennedy for Australian Design Centre, this group installation features 12 makers who have repurposed costume jewellery and other found objects into new pieces. Remade-Reloved celebrates the opportunity for renewal. Each maker has converted the discarded and unloved into the precious – using less to create more. In creatively and actively repurposing, the makers present us with ways of writing new narratives and reassessing our meaning of precious.
Craft Up Late Tuesday 10 October, 6 – 8pm,
For the Sydney Craft Week Festival, The Australian Design Centre is opening late so you can see the exhibitions, enjoy a glass of wine and join a conversation about the shopfront exhibition Remade-Reloved.
Curator Bridget Kennedy and contemporary jewellery artists Kirsten Junor and Melinda Young, talk about how they remade broken and discarded costume jewellery into new work.
Bookings: Free event. Bookings essential. Book here
Linda Blair
costume jewellery provided to artist
White lace earrings – copper, steel, sterling silver, enamel 50x10x1.5mm $150
Bubble earrings – copper, sterling silver, enamel, 60x20x3mm $220, Green – 40x15x3mm, $180, Blue – 23x6x3 $140
Red lace earrings – copper, steel, sterling silver, enamel 50x10x1.5mm $150
Melissa Cameron
The work uses retired jewellery pieces along with stainless-steel cable to string the parts together.
The ‘rapidly-closing-window’ series extends my habit of hiding messages in jewellery and wall works. Most often I create pieces that use colour to represent the 1’s and 0’s of binary encoding, which can then be decoded using ASCII/binary to reveal a hidden message. Left-to-right, this piece is the most literal so far, in that the arrangement of parts is the 0’s of washers against the 1’s of short lengths of copper-plated steel, cut from a pile of twelve formerly silver-plated bracelets.
The piece reads:
“rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable & sustainable future for all IPCC 2023”
Published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a part of their AR6 Synthesis report, this sentence appears in their Headline Statements document, and was brought to my attention by Damian Carrington via The Guardian article Humanity at the climate crossroads: highway to hell or a livable future? in March 2023.
Costume jewellery provided to artist
rapidly-closing-window… #4
neckpiece
2023
recycled plated jewellery, stainless steel cable
650mm long chain, 8mm diameter
$1500
rapidly-closing-window… #4
neckpiece
2023
recycled plated jewellery, stainless steel cable
650mm long chain, 8mm diameter
$1500
rapidly-closing-window… #4
neckpiece
2023
recycled plated jewellery, stainless steel cable
650mm long chain, 8mm diameter
$1500
rapidly-closing-window… #4
neckpiece
2023
recycled plated jewellery, stainless steel cable
650mm long chain, 8mm diameter
$1500
Anna Davern
costume jewellery provided to artist
The Yellow Cob Pas de Deux, Biscuit tin, the materials you provided, silver wire, glass beads, $1500
The Yellow Cob Pas de Deux, Biscuit tin, the materials you provided, silver wire, glass beads, $1500
The Yellow Cob Pas de Deux, Biscuit tin, the materials you provided, silver wire, glass beads, $1500
Sian Edwards
Costume jewellery provided to the artist
original tassle before remakery
Goldfish – repurposed from tassle – NFS
Kirsten Junor
Costume jewellery provided to the artist
‘Refashioned Rondel’, old woollen blanket, cotton wadding, fabric and thread scraps, costume jewellery, $660
Kisten Junor – Refashioned Rondel (detail)
Jenny Fahey
Costume jewellery provided to the artist
Sterling silver, glass beads, cotton thread, recycled bamboo curtain, acrylic paint, banded agate, copper13.5 x 94 mm, $380
Sterling silver, glass beads, cotton thread, recycled bamboo curtain, acrylic paint, green gemstone, 21 X 96 mm, $380
Sterling silver, glass beads, cotton thread, recycled bamboo curtain, acrylic paint, dyed pink gemstone, 21 x 79 mm, $440
Sterling silver, rayon thread, recycled bamboo curtain, acrylic paint, garnet 26 x 100 mm, $440
Sterling silver, gemstone beads, recycled bamboo curtain, nylon coated stainless steel, 180 x 420 mm,$480
Glass & gemstone beads, pearls, recycled bamboo curtain, acrylic paint, nylon coated stainless steel, 160 x 490 mm, $440
Bridget Kennedy
Unchained and knotted up Series
– Things became a bit unhinged when working with this material. Usually I know what materials I’m working with and the challenge here was discovering that things were not always as they seem. The body of work became, in reality, an experimental research project and the outcomes are prototypes, and priced accordingly (they should all be ok but no returns on these!). It all took longer than planned. I was drawn to the repetitious elements of the chain, I wanted to tame the elements, yet allow the movement and fluidity of the original to slide off the surface, swinging freely. I’m excited now and want to explore these elements further!
costume jewellery provided to artist
Knotted up necklace, repurposed and patinated steel costume jewellery, liquid enamel, 62cm drop $205
Unchained brooch, oval, copper, repurposed and patinated steel chain from costume jewellery, sterling silver, liquid enamel, 50mm w x 85mm long, $265
Unchained brooch (or small wall work), rectangle, copper, repurposed steel chain from costume jewellery, sterling silver, liquid enamel, 50mm w x 70mm long, $380
Unchained oval earrings, copper, repurposed and patinated steel chain from costume jewellery, sterling silver, liquid enamel, 30mm w x 65mm long, $175
Unchained U-turn earrings, copper, repurposed and patinated steel chain from costume jewellery, sterling silver, liquid enamel, 20mm wide x 85mm long $175
Erin Keys
Costume jewellery provided to artist
‘All Sins Have a Gold Plated Origin’
Mixed metal earrings w/ 925 (hooks), $185
‘Not All Vintage is Old’ – $185 Oxidised 925 “vintage etsy” Earrings (hooks)
Regina Krawets
Costume jewellery provided to the artist
el, Necklace,
Repurposed indeterminate
metal links, repurposed
beads, repurposed lace,
sterling silver, glass beads,
silk thread, $420
back of ‘el’
oh, Pendant/Brooch
Repurposed beads, copper, silk thread and stainless steel, $420
back of ‘oh’
vee, Brooch
Repurposed beads,
sterling silver, stainless
steel, $420
back of ‘vee’
ee, Pendant/Brooch
Repurposed beads,
Japanese glass beads,
copper, nylon thread, $420
back of brooch ‘ee’
REgina Krawets – Love installation
Margarita Sampson
Costume jewellery provided to artist
“ A Circular Economy”,
18 cm diameter,
Recycled shell beads, recycled fruit bag, recycled drum cordage, waxed thread, hi-hi shell,
$400
Vicki Mason
costume jewellery provided to artist
Ridged drops – Materials: Eucalyptus pods, sterling silver, copper, glass, acrylic paint Dimensions: 4.1 x 1.5 x 1.8 cm, $85
She-oak drops – Materials: She-oak wood, sterling silver, copper, glass, acrylic paint Dimensions: 4.3 x 1.5 x 1.6 cm, $85
Bell drops – Materials: Eucalyptus pod wood, sterling silver, copper, glass, acrylic paint Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.6 x 2 cm, $85
Custard apple seeds and flowers – detail
Custard apple seeds and flowers Materials: Linen, custard apple seeds, glass, copper, powdercoated brass Dimensions: 40 x 10 x 1.5 cm, $195
Pods and flowers Materials: Linen, eucalyptus pod wood, glass, copper, powdercoated brass, plastic Dimensions: Length of necklace coiled twice – 45 x 8 x 2.5 cm, $240
Pods and Flowers – detail
Little wattle seeds Materials: Linen, wattle seeds, sterling silver, mother of pearl, glass, onyx, powdercoated brass Dimensions: For length coiled 4 x times – 35 x 10 x 1.5 cm, $250
Little Wattle Seeds – detail
Melinda Young
costume jewellery provided to artist
Constellation Earrings (made from a tassel & scrap wire), Oxidised silver, longest 165x20x10mm, $320
Constellation Necklace (made from a tassel, gifted repaired chain & scrap wire), Oxidised silver, 360mm, $275
Hairpin Earrings, Oxidised silver,(sold singly) largest 70x20mm, $60ea
Link Necklace (made from bead strands, scrap tube & fused wire), Glass beads, 925 silver, 380mm length, $475
Seeded Hairpin Earrings (made from seed bead strand), Waxed seeds, oxidized silver (sold singly) largest 60x20mm, $75 each
Seeded Hairpin Earrings (made from seed bead strand), Waxed seeds, oxidized silver (sold singly) largest 60x20mm, $75 each
Seeded Hairpin Earrings (made from seed bead strand), Waxed seeds, oxidized silver (sold singly) largest 60x20mm, $75 each
Square-eyes Brooch (made from wood & glass beads, gifted broken chain), Wood, glass, 925 silver, paint. 30x50x25mm, $150
BeppeBug Brooch (made from laminated & carved wood beads & scrap silver), Wood, 925 silver. 46x30x25mm, $220
BeppeBug Brooch – on shirt
