From mid-January and throughout February. Handmade jewellery will be featured at 45 Southside Gallery on Plymouth’s historic Barbican.
A wide range of styles and materials will be on display including silver, embroidered, ceramic and wirework jewellery. The artists inlculde Sarah Fell, Anne Cope, Frances Spice, Remon Jephcott, Julie Murdoch George, Sarah McCormack, Beverley Bailey and Kate Packer.
Kate Packer recently graduated from Plymouth College of Art. Kate’s Work is a mass of animals, insects, pods and vegetables etc. Nature is the foundation and persistent inspiration for her work, interpreted through the interlacing of the thread-like wire that she twists and weaves to shape to form her designs. Delicate yet strong, Kate’s sculptural wire-work is made from thin colour-coated copper wire, and black florist wire.
Cornwall based ceramic artist Remon Jephcott’s jewellery has been inspired by the Victorians’ love of insect jewellery of all types, which reflected their fascination with classifying nature.
Each piece goes through several kiln firings, from the initial bisque firing to the final lustre firing, which gives each piece it’s precious quality.
45 Southside Gallery, 45 Southside Street, Barbican, Plymouth.
Post by Kirsten Kruse
