Contemporary Australian Jewellery & Holloware at NAFA - 23 Nov 2007

The best of contemporary Australian jewellery and metalwork art by the country's most celebrated practitioners known for their innovative use.

Curator lecturing on the different types of materials used and design development.

Vanessa Raimondo
Neck Piece - 'Stranded'
PVC plastic, polyester
The white piece is a necklace. See above pic - the slide which showed how the neck piece looks like.

Demonstration by one of the artiste on how she makes her items without fusing or soldering.


She draws out the design on computer and have it cut out with grooves so that she can fit it together - like lego bricks.


Rowena Gough
A necklace made of mother-of-pearl shell buttons
Sean O'Connell
"Pink Glow Worm" bracelet made of acrylic, stainless steel, spring sheet.

A close-up look of the buttons necklace.


A close-up look of the bracelet.




These bags are made of silver!
It looks translucent and flexible.


Robert Foster
The tall one is a vase made of stainless steel base with anodised aluminium wings.
The short one is a Swan Coffee Pot. So cool!


Daehoon Kang
Such a cute teapot - made of copper, brass and mokumegane.


Karl Millard
Bet you can't guess what these are.
Gave up? Its' pepper-grinder! You twist the horns to grind the peppers.


Chris Mullins
Bowl made of anodised aluminium(green), stainless steel cable.


Vicki Mason
'Commonwealth Native Wreath"
Commissioned for the Commonwealth Games 2006 Hand-dyed PVC(tree guard sleeve), silk, 9ct yellow gold, 22ct yellow gold plated sterling silver (below).
I thought it was made of feathers.


Andrew Last
The 3 coloured baskets.