Description

Materials: Glass, steel, sterling silver, woody pod, textile ink

Dimensions: 3.9 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm

Year: 2024

Photographer: Vicki Mason

Description: Pale pink glass bead (from Remade Reloved) with pink painted round cup shaped shaped top

Remade-Reloved 2023 exhibition, curated by Bridget Kennedy for the Australian Design Centre. This group installation featured 12 makers repurposing costume jewellery and other found objects into new pieces. Each maker 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. Remade-Reloved celebrates the opportunity for renewal.

Artists Statement

Building on her history of repurposing remnant/waste materials, Vicki Mason continues to use industrial waste, reclaimed household refuse and costume jewellery sent to her by Bridget Kennedy as part of her Remade/Reloved initiative in various collections. More recently she has also started incorporating fallen seed pods and woody plant litter. In removing the original function or context, these items and materials are reinvented and these precious resources are given a second life. Vicki’s choice to reuse materials is tied to thinking about our need to tread lightly on the land and to explore themes of nature’s regenerative ability in the face of ongoing environmental pressures.

Assurance a minimum of 50% is from recycled and repurposed materials used in work.