Growing up in East Africa, and a past
career in waste management has ingrained in Lucy’s psyche a desire to
make as much use of what is available rather than selecting new materials to
work with. Although accepting the technological changes that ease our
lifestyles, she mourns those that have gone before and are being lost. Since
graduating from the Auckland University BVA programme at Manukau Institute of
Technology she has been “Defying, or denying, Obsolescence” both within her own
existence, and in her jewellery practise.
She selects materials that have become technologically
redundant like typewriter ribbon, floppy discs, audio and video tape and
celluloid film that she adapts and transforms to create new forms that belie
their original purpose using traditional jewellery practises like casting and
electroplating.
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| Playing A Yarborough Hand (2011) Television glass, cast silver alloys |
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| Playing A Yarborough Hand (2011) Ring, Television glass, cast silver alloy |
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| Untitled (2012) Brooch, Celluloid film, steel |
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| Not So Floppy (2013) Necklace, Floppy discs, cord, silver electro plate |
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| Defying Obsolesce (2013) Brooch, Floppy discs, silver electroplated, steel |
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| Bobbles (2012) Necklace Audio tape, silver (photo – Sarah Walker-Holt) |
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| Untitled (2013) Sewing pattern, thread (photo – Sarah Walker-Holt) |
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| Defying Obsolescence (2011) Necklace, Hessian coffee sack, brass electroplated (photo – Sarah Walker-Holt) |
Curriculum Vitae
1989 BSc. Environmental Science, University
of Southampton, UK
1993 MSc. Environmental Engineering,
University of Portsmouth, UK
2007 Diploma of Visual Arts, University of
Auckland, NZ
2010 Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of
Auckland, NZ
Exhibitions
2007 DVA
Graduating Show, Opanuku Studio, Corbans Arts Centre
2008 Post Stitch,
group show, Lopdell House
2009 "Token Effort" at Mura
o te ahi/The heat of the fire, Te Tuhi Art Gallery
Native Flora, group show, MIT/Newcastle University
collaboration
The NZ Jewellery Show, group show,
Auckland
2010 BVA Graduating
show, MSVA
Pop Culture in Contemporary Craft,
group show, Masterworks
Weeds, group show, MIT/Canberra Collaboration
2011 Best in Show 2011,
Objectspace
Neckware 8, Masterworks
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Yarborough Hand, Jewellery Box Graduate Award Exhibition,
Masterworks
Adorned, group show, Waiheke Arts Centre
The NZ Jewellery Show,
Wellington
Objective
Art Awards, Mangare Art Centre, Auckland
Materially Concerned, Corbans Arts Centre, Auckland
2012 Ludditesque, The
Curiosity Cabinet, Lopdell House, Auckland
Objective
Art Awards, Mangare Art Centre, Auckland
Transit Collective - Square Art, group
show, Newmarket
2013 Chain,group show, Brazil
An eclectic mix, group show, Left Field, Ardmore
Transit Collective – Guerilla Art, group show, Newmarket
2014 (February)
Summers Jewels, group show, Waiheke
Arts Centre
(March) Thinkspace project space,
Masterworks
(April)
Meltdown, group show, Debrasic,
Thames
