Description

Title: Biodiversity

Materials: Oxidised sterling silver, gold plated sterling silver, wood, nylon, glass, plastic, hand-dyed wood and various semi-precious stone beads, mother of pearl and unknown materials.

Dimensions: 36 x 7 x 1.8 cm

Year: 2024

Photographer: Vicki Mason

Description: Mixed beads semi-precious beads, hand-dyed wood, plastic, oxidised open leaves large and small on nylon. Over the head no catch

Exhibited: Remade-Reloved 2024

Descriptions: Various yellow, orange, blue dyed beads with smaller mother of pearl beads in various profiles on nylon with oxidised sterling silver tube beads. Single length, over the head no catch.

Artists Statement

Building on her history of repurposing remnant, waste and unwanted materials, Vicki Mason continues to use industrial waste, reclaimed household refuse and costume jewellery in discrete series of works. Being part of Bridget Kennedys Remade/Reloved initiative is a yearly highlight, a challenge to work with and reinvent these unwanted but precious resources. These works are tied to thinking about our need to tread lightly on the land in the face of ongoing environmental pressures and reference, seeds, ideas of biodiversity and pearliness of pearls in their myriad of forms.