I’m about to book a place on a jewellery workshop [I hope there are still places available] happening at St Andrews Museum on Saturday 25th September run by jewellers Jane Gowans and Hannah Livingston. It’s come about because of the Causing Chaos exhibition at the museum curated by artist Claire Barclay for Fife Contemporary Art & Craft. The exhibition looks at “how art objects may reference functional things but subvert function through ambiguity of use and meaning” and features the jewellery and metalwork of Shari Pearce.
I’ve never seen her work or the work of the jewellers running the workshop so have done a bit of research on Google and have to post up images of some of Jane Gowans work from 2009 as I absolutely love it. Made from what looks like prosthetic hands mixed with precious metals, they are really quirky, funny and very unusual. I’d love to wear one of these pieces for a formal dinner party or a business meeting just to be different and go against the norm – I think they’re brilliant:
Let me know what you think. I wonder what they’re like to wear and how flexible the fingers are.
Hello,
Thank you for featuring my work. I am glad you like it. I look forward to meeting you at the workshop. I will bring a piece along for you to have a look at if you like. The fingers are very bendy.
Many thanks
Jane
I’d love to see the work first hand – so please do bring a piece with you! Still to send off my application form, but hope to remember to do that on Monday. See you at the workshop!