Our second cross-continental survey of enamel.
Heat, in physics, is defined as an exchange of energy. In thermodynamics, a heat exchanger is a system built to effect efficient heat transfer. In most heat exchange systems the exchange is mediated so that the hot and cold media do not come into contact. Typically it is only their energy that is exchanged.
This exhibition seeks to replicate this exchange. The participating artists, located in Australia, Denmark, Germany, North America, Spain and the United Kingdom will exchange ideas and inspirations, many of them without actually coming into contact with one another. The main interface for their exchange is this blog, on which they will exchange snippets from their working practice as they go about creating works for this exhibition.
In this iteration of the exhibition the curators have planned opportunities for the artists to be able to meet over the course of preparing their works, in order to facilitate a closer exchange, the results of which are hoped to have some impact on the works created.
This time the artists are working towards a travelling exhibition opening at Craft in the Bay gallery in Wales in September 2015.
Dates:
11th September – 8th November, Craft in the Bay, Wales
12 December 2015 – 28 February 2016, St Andrews Museum, Fife, Scotland
20th of March – 5th of May, 2016 in gallery Waidspeicher in the Kulturhof zum Güldenen Krönbacken in Erfurt, Germany
21st May to 2nd July, 2016 Bavarian Arts and Crafts Council Gallery for Applied Arts in Munich.
This is taking the bull by the horns and contacting a few stars directly. Presently I am in my final year at Unitec Auckland NZ studying contemporary jewellery. It seems I have become addicted to grains of glass. As part of the research part of my practice and my own learning on this lengthy road I came upon your site. What am I after? Not completely sure!!! Information, advise, help for us in the far flung outpost of the Pacific. My work is very exploitative and its all coming from me so any tips are always welcome. thank you if you get thee time it will be valued
Hi Mandy. I wouldn’t say that New Zealand is a far-flung outpost. Kirsten Haydon’s work in this exhibition is based on the Antarctic, and as far as ‘far-flung outposts’ go, that’s much more like it!
If you are after tips/trick to do with enamelling, keep an eye on my personal blog where I have a page revealing some of the processes of liquid enamel that I use in my practice.
Good luck with your studies, and we hope you enjoy the new images just posted of the installed exhibition.
xx m