Some of the necklaces, earrings and brooches from my An unopening ( needle and hammer) collection are back home on the Victorian side of the border and available for purchase via my online store.
Go to Shop in menu. Handcrafted with repurposed, upcycled, recycled metals and textiles.
Many thanks to Jodie O’Sullivan and The Border Mail for this great article.
My collection of adornments An unopening (hammer and needle) is available at Corowa Jewellery, Sanger Street COROWA NSW. Mon – Fri 9-5pm and Sat 9 -12pm.
The opening of my collection of work, An Unopening ( hammer and needle) that was scheduled for 5pm onwards tonight(28 May) at Corowa Jewellery is postponed due to the COVID pandemic lockdown in Victorian and associated rules and reasons for leaving our homes et al.
However, the work is installed and you can see it if you are in NSW( During Corowa Jewellery regular opening hours). Victorians will just have to wait a little while longer… The work will be in Corowa Jewellery for the month of June.
I really appreciate and am grateful for all the support, care and checking in I’ve received since yesterday- so fricking special…such awesomeness and yes I can’t wait to catch up on the other side of it!
Image above: Sisters (doing it for themselves) 2021. Co-created with my sister Philena Morkel- making do(ing), beads from scraps and tangles during lockdowns and being unopen et al.
When: 5 pm onwards, Friday 28 May
Where: Corowa Jewellery, Alkermi Gallery, 104 Sanger Street, Corowa
For more information about the work in this collection go to An unopening ( hammer and needle)
This work is about…
1) starting with things that are unopen …
a scrap
a tangle
a remnant
a fragment
a broken string of…
things that might otherwise be discarded or forgotten or caught in between worthy and worthless
2) the act of making with processes that I love.
Metalwork and sewing anchor me in an otherwise threshold space.
The rules I make up … anchor me…
Only used, nothing new
Recycle, upcycle, repurpose,
Kept and collected, found and gifted…Vintage.
Did I just describe myself?
I am rediscovering what’s precious…
What’s next is unclear … except that I choose to be unopen to returning to the same
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