I found this picture on instagram. For me it highlights the banal schism which has plauged the art jewellery, contemporary jewellery scene since the Modernist movement.
In an effort to be recognised as more than mere craft, contemporary jewellery has pushed traditional jewellery ideologies away. Unfortunately, this has also led to a loss of technical skills as well as the making of the type of jewellery which needs inverted commas to talk about.
There is value in this swing, however, new techniques have been discovered, new materials are now commonly used. New sites on the body have become accepted.
Somewhere in this large group of extremists, artists, traditionalists and even commercialists, there lies the core of craft which all of us who make small things of beauty are bound to.
So, my response to this statement is: Excellent, can we get on with making good jewellery now.
In an effort to be recognised as more than mere craft, contemporary jewellery has pushed traditional jewellery ideologies away. Unfortunately, this has also led to a loss of technical skills as well as the making of the type of jewellery which needs inverted commas to talk about.
There is value in this swing, however, new techniques have been discovered, new materials are now commonly used. New sites on the body have become accepted.
Somewhere in this large group of extremists, artists, traditionalists and even commercialists, there lies the core of craft which all of us who make small things of beauty are bound to.
So, my response to this statement is: Excellent, can we get on with making good jewellery now.
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