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On Repeat
8 September - 5 November 2011
This exhibition at flow features the work of eighteen
international makers. The exhibition explores the creative
process which at times becomes meditative; moving from
the mind of the maker to an intuitive action. The process of
repetition can create or even determine a form. It allows
exploration of volume, decoration and pattern. Repetition
creates a rhythm and a flow; it highlights difference,
irregularity and the history behind surfaces. It is through
repetition that you discover difference, through order and
an attempt for the constant, variation is emphasized and
the unexpected is found in the familiar.
Using different materials and patterns; from lines, dots or
looping, all the work has the process of repetition in
common. The process of making can be a valuable trigger
of inspiration. This is echoed in this exhibition, which aims to
encourage people to see and enjoy the subtle variations
created from a single repeated act.
Iris Tsante considers jewellery as a process of exploring ways
to define the sense of "beauty" and "value" in reference to
memories of significant objects and the subsequent
human/social connections related to them. Tsante's pieces
provide connotations of optimism, simplicity, joy and
innocence, revealing at the same time qualities such as
fragility and vulnerability.
Astrid Keller.
The photographer Karl Blossfeldt writes in Wundergarten der
Natur 'that every plant is built up in an architectural way,
which creates forms and shapes. In this sense nature
becomes our 'instructor' for art and technique'. Earrings,
necklaces and bowls are constructed out of little loops or
dots. They are plain and formalizing. The construction
creates a graphic ornamentation..
Momoko Kumai describes her work as "accessing my inner
child playing with paper. It is abstract in form - the result of a
free-flowing sub-conscious process of folding, twisting and
rolling up any kind of paper material".
Tsuruko Tanikawa is interested continuous construction of
metal. Tanikawa has been using the same material, and
constructional technique of linking for over twenty years. "I
have realized the freedom hidden in the restriction. This is
the joy of my art-making".
Nikolay Sardamov has focused on the circle. Through
repetitions and overlapping a pattern emerges. He uses the
multiplied pattern to arrange figures with different types of
symmetry and uses them to construct double-layered forms.
The layers cast shadows that overlap and create a notion of
movement, like snowflakes falling from the sky.
Stine Jespersen.
The repeated action of chopping, tearing, pinching and
pressing creates a rhythm and a flow as slight variations
between the elements naturally appear. It is like visual music.
Jespersen repeats the same elements, building new forms each
time. The slight variation between the repeated elements
draws the viewer in, as they discover the unexpected in the
familiar.
Stacey Bentley is inspired by urban scenery, taking inspiration
from its patterns and structures. Being attentive to the
unexpected and unnoticed components of this industrial
environment allows Bentley to discover an elegant and
mysterious aesthetic. Her observations are translated into
tactile, sculptural forms that play with line, gritty textures and
matt finishes.
Ike Jünger uses a variety of materials and techniques from
colourful enamel to gold casting and often incorporating
found objects. Her work is organic and enigmatic.
Charlotte Sale's collections are inspired by nature. She enjoys
trying to mimic and express its minute repetitive patterns and
intense textures through the different techniques that glass
presents, often at times combining them together or allowing
the material to lead the way itself.
Flora Vagi creates jewelry which not only adorns the body but
explores the visual language of an object." I search discover,
transform…. surprise. The materials get a 'return ticket' from me,
and with their 'newly dressed souls' I send them back to the
world, where they came from".
Nuala O'Donovan combines regular pattern with the
characteristics of fractal forms from nature. Each element of
the pattern is individually made; the form is constructed from
clay slowly over a period of months, and fired a number of
times during the making process. The finished forms are a result
of an intuitive response to the direction of the pattern and the
irregularity in the handmade. The result of using the
characteristics of fractal geometry in making decisions is that
the form is resolved but retains a sense of potential growth.
Evert Nijland is fascinated by the way nature is visualized by
artists throughout art history. His collection titled 'Naturae' is
inspired by the many floral motives that are used in classical
ornaments.
Renata Francescon explores expressions of opposition; lightshadow,
beautiful-ugly, material-immaterial. Francescon
repeats the hand made rose to create her form. The rose is an
iconic image, everyone has some kind of relation to it and
everyone knows it. Francescon subverts the traditional image of
the ceramic rose and uses it as a component in which to build
with.
Ritsuko Jinnouchi's work explores her desire to create mass with
uneven surface texture. Jinnouchi uses plaiting, tying and
braiding to construct hexagonal patterned structures from
paper, cord, bark, bamboo or cane. "My baskets are made by
lots of small structures. The structures are all the same. If I
change one of them the whole form will change. I am surprised
and pleased by this change."
Birgit Hagmann.
This work is based on drawing. Using the wire, the drawing is
transformed into a three-dimensional space. The line creates
shapes and explores volume, sometimes delicately, playfully
and searchingly and other times confidently, in a straight, clear
and powerful way. Thus crystalline-organic structures come to
life and become jewellery.
Ella Robinson.
Geometric outlines are inspired by the contours of every day
items such as grates, door handles, plugs, light switches, railings,
road signs, and door bells. Robinson hand cuts the silhouettes
from unusual textile materials (including cork, balsa wood and
polypropylene) and combines them with poly-cotton shapes.
Each piece is densely layered and demonstrates her love of
colour, graphic pattern and working by hand.
Sidsel Hanum is inspired by nature's forms, such as tidewaters,
diversity of shells, corals, sea anemones, starfish and the
Norwegian coastline and its seasonal variations. Hanum builds
her work layer upon layer; it is built on the basic idea that takes
its shape in the same patterns as nature.
Noriko Takamiya transforms the basic basketry structure into
new forms. The forms of Takamiya's work are created from a
plaited simple cube. She likes to see how it mutates and
transforms into other forms.
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