Inseparable Companion

casting new shadows with jewellery + objects

The annual end-of-year exhibition of the Design Centre Enmore’s Jewellery + Object Design students is eagerly anticipated among Australia’s arts and design community. Each year, the work produced by the students proves to be innovative, unique and of the highest standard.

The 2010 exhibition is titled Inseparable Companion: Casting New Shadows with Jewellery + Objects. This title refers to the connection the students feel to their work, the connection between the jewellery and the wearer and the inseparability of the physical object and the shadow it casts.

Over 500 handmade pieces by more than 60 students will be on display and available for sale. This covetable collection includes wearable jewellery as well as larger-scale sculptural objects.

The Jewellery + Object Design department at the Design Centre Enmore consistently graduates independently recognised talented designers, and this exhibition offers the opportunity to see and own examples from the next generation of designer/makers.

Inseparable Companion will be held at the Danks St Galleries, Depots I & II; located at the rapidly rising design hub Danks St, Waterloo, and will run from the 1st to the 5th of December.

This exhibition strongly focuses on achieving the smallest carbon footprint possible using everything from soybean based ink for printing materials, to biodegradable materials to build display units.

It’s your chance to meet the artists as they launch their future careers and pave the way for this growing industry. Every year the quality of design and workmanship displayed breaks new ground and challenges the boundaries of contemporary Jewellery + Object Design.

Inseparable Companion, Depot Galleries I + II, 2 Danks Street Waterloo, 1-5 December 2010, Gallery Hours 11am – 6pm

Made By Hand

Posted by Doris Jurzak, Sienna

As emerging designer/makers we’re taught to use many tools and machines to transform our design ideas into physical objects. All of these processes require our hands; undoubtedly our most important tools.

While our hands have become more important during the last three years, they’ve also become far less attractive. We often comment about how awful they’re looking and minor cuts and scrapes usually don’t even rate an ‘ouch’ anymore…though we might stop for a bandaid if we’re working with a material that we don’t want to bleed on. Manicures don’t rate a mention at all.

There are plenty of things in the workshop which contribute to the mistreatment of our phalanges ... emery paper, sawblades, burs, polishing wheels, scotchbrite, pumice, hammers, vices, torches, metal, acetone, diluted acids, the incessant hand-washing with gritty solvol soap…not to mention the more perilous bandsaws, guillotines and lathes; a whole new level of phalanges mistreatment which we avoid with extreme OH&S vigilance.

So while our hands may not be the most beautiful in the world, we’ve certainly been doing our best to make beautiful things with them. Here are some of our hands…to see what they’ve made, our end-of-year exhibition runs from 1 December to 5 December at Depot Galleries I and II, Danks Street Waterloo. Please come and take a look.