- Venue
- Cupola Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, May 30, 2008
- Ends
- Saturday, June 28, 2008
- Address
- Cupola Gallery 178 Middlewood Rd Sheffield S6 1TD
- Location
- Yorkshire
Precious is a selected group show of a wide variety of glass (functional and non functional) and both ‘precious and non-precious' jewellery from artists and designer makers from around the country. Work will be for sale. "The idea behind precious was the bringing together of items labelled as such due to the projected value placed upon them. For example a ‘precious' item of jewellery can often be something made out of non-precious materials or even things others may dispose of as rubbish, but due to the care in construction or the association made with the materials the ‘jewellery' itself can become inordinately ‘special' or ‘precious'. I am interested in the value both the giving and the *wearing of ‘jewellery' can bestow or confer on the recipient or wearer and how the unique and special talent of artists and makers can make ‘non precious' hand made jewellery incredibly ‘precious.' not ALL the jewellery will be wearable. I have linked glass with jewellery for similar reasons, as glass itself is regularly viewed as both fragile and precious and yet the variety of uses and number of ways it can manifest itself means this is an altogether simplistic and narrow understanding of its versatility. This exhibition highlights a small sample of the endless variety and styles or work being produced by talented designers and makers across the country today.
