Jewellery and Small Objects
Annabelle Kirkpatrick
Themes of surrealism and the uncanny are prevalent in my practice, particularly my more figurative work. The role of jewellery as constituting signs and symbols that define and perform identity are also central to my current practice. I am inspired by the way that objects speak to the body, and the opportunity to subvert traditional symbolic meaning.
Annabelle exhibited in Why Jewellery? Hong Kong, 2019 Anywhere Festival, Brisbane, 2019 9 March Project exhibition, Moscow and an Internship at Artisan 2020/2021.
Gabrielle Howse
Jewellery making throughout 2020 opened my eyes to the possibilities of what I could achieve. It made me think; how can I make jewellery without a studio? What materials do I have access to? What will this skill hell me with in the future? Because of these questions a new branch of jewellery was opened. Wire wrapping, and made me think of making a business.
Gabrielle exhibited in Commune With Me 2020.
Kirsty Boddington
My practice encompasses Lost Wax Cast pendants depicting my aesthetic interpretation of historically, culturally, and religiously renowned symbol, the Star of Life; globally recognized as the Emergency Medical Services trademark. The rod, serpent and wings are powerful codes, medical alert icons, representing psychological and physical triumph. The pendants are for anyone who seeks wellbeing.
During my studies at QCA, I participated in an internship with Artisan and installed the Unleashed exhibition (2020), I volunteered for FOH at Griffith University Art Museum, I gallery-minded for the Expanding Jewellery exhibition (2020) by Vivien Bedwell and the Commune with Me exhibition (2020) organised by the J&SO Collective; both exhibitions were held at the Grey St Gallery. I exhibited Rings of Truth (2019) in the Webb Centre Glass Cabinet, Griffith University, South Bank (Nov 2020), and in Commune with Me (15 – 23 Dec 2020). I also exhibited Wield the Rod Needle & Sword (2020), Ancient Remedies (2020), Sustainable Jewellery (2020) and Rings of Truth (2019) in the Oasis Gallery, Gold Coast (28 Dec 2020 -11 Jan 2021).
I have been a member of the J&SO Collective for 2 years. I have completed many commissions for friends, family and supporters.
Lia Anderson
Bachelor of Design – Jewellery and Small Objects
In my practice, I seek to merge the past, present, and future while investigating the physical and metaphysical essence of jewellery. I create pieces that make use of jewellery’s ability to negotiate meaning, record history, offer protection, and act as a mediator. I am inspired by ancient cultures, architecture, and my own North African Jewish heritage.
Lia won the Award for Academic Excellence in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and graduated with distinction.
Mara Vučak
Tipping Point uses mapping elements to highlight impacts of global warming and climate change on eco systems in far way and unseen places. Interchangeable pieces in the series represent the Earth’s axis and our environmental tipping point. Recycled and repurposed materials created from natural resources give the objects new meaning demonstrating how our choices can affect change.
Sterling silver series Tattoo was created after investigating traditional Croatian tattoo motifs. The motifs were used by women as identity markers more than 1000 years ago. In recent years these traditional designs have become popular with a new generation. Contemporary representation of motifs allows the wearer to enjoy the tradition without having to mark the body with ink. The 2019 Why Jewellery? exhibition was shown at QCA Galleries then travelled on exchange to Hong Kong Baptist University.
Renee Kire
Renee Kire’s jewellery practice focuses on highlighting issues overlooked daily. By recreating scenes observed during her travels to and from university, she aims to create delicate, small-scaled objects to bring emphasis to the issues created by the growing human footprint. The intent of her work is to capture moments in time which one day may not exist due to climate change.
Sunday Jemmott
Sunday Jemmott is a Meanjin/Brisbane based artist working across painting and contemporary jewellery. Jemmott's jewellery practice focuses on the relationships between the wearer and the piece. Using the narratives of universal symbols like the smiley face, and materials from childhood, she explores themes of nostalgia, art versus craft and youth.
Zani Cloete
My embroidery hoops are inspired by my South African heritage and homeland. The work has helped me feel connected to family through my art. I was inspired by African sunsets, animals and scraps of my grandmother’s fabrics. My ring collection contains gemstones that have been ethically sourced in Madagascar and Mozambique by Charles Lawson. They are set in recycled sterling silver.
Drawing
Camryn Day
Drawing and Painting majors
This series of paintings highlights the transition from adolescence to adulthood and the loss of innocence that comes with it in the y2k millennium. Using a chaotic accumulation of pop culture references from the early 2000s, I have examined the transitional periods within my formative years in hopes to capture the post-ironic way in which my generation clings to nostalgia for our innocence.
Frances Powell
Parallel comprises of a mixed-media drawing series which demonstrates human connection through figurative drawing. This project explores the nuances that are contained in millennial relationships such as friendship, touch, curiosity and closeness. In Parallel, drawing has been used as a medium to capture something raw, immediate and fleeting, often similar to our experience with one another.
Expanded Practice
Emily Hanna
Smallah, meaning God Bless, is an installation piece depicting a Lebanese-Australian domestic space, similar to what Hanna has experienced in her life. In honour of Hanna’s Giddee and Uncle Anthony, the accumulation of objects, images and transcripts, not only portrays the trauma that her family has endured, but the significant aspects that her family holds onto, in order to keep them in their lives.
Emily Parker
Whilst we forget about the packaging products travel in, these materials still exist in the world in some shape or form, resulting in significant damage to our environment now and into the future. Utilising these discarded packaging materials, Parker's work transcends the materials original function and redefines the perceived value and possibility of these within our society and our environment.
The year prior to commencing at QCA (2017) I completed a summer program at the Paris College of Art and in 2017 I was also awarded the Gordon and Leanne Bennet Encouragement Award at the Bracken Ridge High School 50th Exhibition.
Print Media
Grace Currie
Print Media and Photographic Art Practice majors
From a feminist perspective, why has patriarchal influence distorted and silenced depictions of powerful women represented in history? Through the use of print and photography, the Judeo-Christian Lilith’s diverse representation will be analysed to expose the male influence of media and the objective of manipulation.
Sidonie Hall-Jordan
Print Media and Photographic Art Practice majors
This work is about troubles of the body. It considers how the body exists in the extremes of physical and mental distress. Particularly pain, illness, and the blurring of the mind/body divide. In my opinion the experience of the body, in pain, in illness, in distress, is a completely different experience of corporality. It feels like being pushed to the edge of ones status as a whole, living being. A bit like an animal, a bit like disintegration.
French Surgeon René Leriche called health “life lived in the silence of the organs”. while pain and the experience of being unwell is not uncommon– we conceptualise the neutral body as whole, painless and comfortable. But we experience the body to a heightened degree in illness – as it seemingly falls apart. These images are imprints of the sensations of physical trouble, of what, most importantly, feels like bodily collapse.
Sculpture
Renee Kire
Through patternation, adaptability and evidence of the handmade, Renee Kire’s practice focuses on challenging the traditional notions surrounding minimalist sculpture. With the use of material investigation, she references overlooked figures from art history and aims to create unstable configurations with a feminine touch, to emphasize the imbalance of equality in the art world.
