SELECTED EXHIBITION | BY EXAMPLE

Collection of work for By Example

Untitled | 2009 | Stainless Steel, Brass | Image: Grant Hancock

Untitled | 2009 | Stainless Steel, 925 Silver, Paint | Image: Grant Hancock

Looking for Light | 2009 | Stainless Steel, Brass, Paint | Image: Grant Hancock

Longing for Light | 2009 | Stainless Steel, Brass, Paint | Image: Grant Hancock

Orbit Orange | 2009 | Stainless Steel, Rubber, Paint | Image: Grant Hancock

Orbit Grey | 2009 | Stainless Steel, Rubber, Paint | Image: Grant Hancock

Orbit Red | 2009 | Stainless Steel, Rubber, Paint | Image: Grant Hancock

The Museum of Arts and Crafts

Itami, Japan

2010

Statement | In the work for By Example I wanted to make jewellery that was about intimacy and vastness. I wanted to explore the contrary impulses of exploration and settlement.

Formally this equated to looking at pattern and the way that pattern colonises 3-dimentional space. And then looking at the way objects colonise bodies and the way bodies colonise landscape.

I was particularly intrigued by the image of a settlement at the edge of a frontier. As a boy I would draw scenes, imagined or real, and they would remain incomplete until a single figure was placed in them. There is something in this image of isolation that I find repeated in the image of a building within space.