A Fantastical Array of Art Jewellery Selected From Around the Globe
12th July - 30th Sept 2012
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FLOURISHRING
Celebrating Sixteen Years at Salts Mill

CRAFT&DESIGN

July/August, 2012

Flourish!!

Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery: 12 July - 30 September

With a reputation for showcasing the best in radical contemporary jewellery, (recently described inThe Times Luxx Magazine as 'For clients who want jewels that push boundaries... the antidote to the high street'), Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, based at Salts Mill since 1996, marks her sixteenth birthday with flair!

'Flourish'exhibits a fantastical array of art jewellery selected from around the globe.

From Dutch artist Nina Sajet's surreal transformation of cabbages and sprouts into fine porcelain neckpieces, to South Korean Seulgi Kwon's marvellous delicately tinted intricate silicone organisms that come to life when touched and worn.Textile inspired Francisca Bauza from Germany and Mallorca presents vibrant enamelled floral necklaces whose folds in metal and crimped edges mimic material; Yu-Ping Lin from Taiwan creates playful Origami inspired textile brooches that mutate into bracelets and back again - like jewellery 'Transformers'-they can be worn in a myriad of different ways!

Additionally 100 international jewellers involved with the gallery over the last sixteen years have been invited to each enter an exuberant celebratory ring into

a flamboyant competition called 'FlourishRing!'. Visitors to the gallery will be able to vote for their favourite by trying it on and being photographed modelling it.

These photos will then become part of a growing installation on the walls of the gallery. The 'FlourishRing' that gets the most public votes during the exhibition will win £250.

Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery

Salts Mill, Saltaire,

Bradford BD18 3LA

T:01274 599790

E:info@kathlibbertjewellery.co.uk

www.kathlibbertjewellery.co.uk

Pictures: Francisca Bauza, Blue Flowers Necklace; and Yu Ping Lin, Inherence in Nature Coral Reef Brooch.

OWN ART

15th June, 2012

Flourish at Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery is like the Olympics of the jewellery world, bringing together a whole host of fantastic makers from across the globe! It runs from 12 July – 30 September 2012 and Own Art is available in the gallery on purchases.

With an international reputation for showcasing the best in radical contemporary jewellery, Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, based at Salts Mill since 1996, marks her sixteenth birthday with flair! Flourish exhibits a fantastical array of art jewellery selected from around the globe.

Dutch artist Nina Sajet’s creates surreal transformations of cabbages and sprouts into fine porcelain whilst South Korean, Seulgi Kwon, creates delicately tinted intricate silicone organisms that come to life when touched and worn.

Mallorcan/German Francisca Bauza’s textile inspired works present vibrant enamelled floral necklaces whose folds in metal and crimped edges mimic material; Yu-Ping Lin from Taiwan creates playful Origami inspired textile brooches that mutate into bracelets and back again.

100 international jewellers involved with the gallery over the last sixteen years have been invited to each enter an exuberant celebratory ring into a flamboyant competition called FlourishRing!

Visitors to the gallery will be able to vote for their favourite by trying it on and being photographed modelling it. These photos will then become part of a growing installation on the walls of the gallery. The FlourishRing that gets the most public votes during the exhibition will win £250.

Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford. BD18 3LA

Open Monday to Friday 10am – 5.30pm. Weekends 10am – 6pm.

E:info@kathlibbertjewellery.co.uk

W:www.kathlibbertjewellery.co.uk

Picture caption: Katja Schlegel, Red Medallion Ring, Courtesy of the artist and Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery.

YORKSHIRE POST

16th June, 2012

Fashion

WE LOVE:

One ring to rule

them all...

YES it does look like an Olympic ring, but we love it because it's simple, bold and bright enough to lift the darkest day.

Medallion ring in silver and acrylic costs £198 at the Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery at Salts Mill

www.kathlibbertjewellery.co.uk.

CRAFTS MAGAZINE

July/August, 2012

Two new exhibitions open at Kath Libbert’s Salt Mills gallery this month (until 30 September)

The first, Flourish, is an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s 16 years in business. The work is difficult to pigeonhole as – as ever with Libbert’s shows – it crosses boundaries between jewellery, fashion and sculpture, with pieces ranging from Yu-Ping Lin’s elaborate origami-inspired neckpieces, to Nina Sajet’s necklace of beautifully realistic porcelain cabbages. In a recent interview with Findings Magazine, Libbert explained how she chooses the work: ‘Firstly work has to be well crafted but then it’s about surprising me, provoking me, presenting me with something intriguingly beautiful.’ And the work on show here is no exception, with makers using a variety of unusual materials and techniques to create new and unexpected forms.

The second exhibition, FlourishRing, showcases what she calls a group of ‘exuberant, celebratory rings’ specially made by the 100 plus makers linked to the gallery over the last 16 years. So look out for the likes of Jacqueline Mina, Malcolm Morris, Adam Paxon and Georg Dobler among others. Once you’ve checked them all out, you get to vote for your favourite piece, try it on and be photographed wearing it, with the photos forming a mini installation on the gallery walls.

FINDINGS

The Magazine of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery

Issue 55 Autumn 2012

FLOURISH/FLOURISHRING

Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, Saltaire, 12 July - 30 September 2012

Reviewed by Elizabeth Moignard

Naughty in a (not very) quiet way! My initial thought after seeing these linked exhibitions, and thinking about their success in epitomising the flavour of Kath Libbert's gallery and its sixteen year history and influence on contemporary jewellery; congratulations are due. The gallery is, as those of you who have visited know, something of a one-ofFin itself: a very partially-defined, even permeable space, with both stock and exhibition material in glass tower cases which allow a 3-D wandering viewing; more stuff on the walls.

'Flourish' commissioned nine international makers with varied practices and backgrounds to submit a collection which responded to the exhibition title, in media and forms of their choice. The makers were obviously selected with awareness of their interests and preferred materials, but the rest was clearly their call. So the cases were full of extraordinary objects, colour, shapes, and noise. Some of them proved to have an unexpected wearability: Seulgi Kwon's inflated silicone organisms looked joyously weird in the case, and proved, when worn, to sit in the body-curves and respond excitingly to clothing and skin colours. Francisca Bauza's weighty enamelled floral pieces demanded attention because of their size and subtly migrating colours: pictures to wear, especially those in blues and purples.

'Flourish' evidently implied not only colour and form, but also reflections of organic life and energy Akiko Kurihara contributed a panel of vine-leaf brooches, each cut individually from the wall of a wine bottle; the collection showed an extraordinary range of subtle transparent greens and browns, enhanced by the curvature of the glass. Nina Sajet's subtle porcelain sculptures made neckpieces from fish forms, sprouts, and a prodigious circle of cabbages. Marta Mattsson's display gave us electroformed bugs, dominated by a glittering and delicate moth. Mari Iwamoto showed us painted acrylic three-dimensional jigsaws, with delicate textile-like surfaces; her pendent earrings were particularly successful, light and moving gently with the wearer. Her second group of objects were vegetable forms constructed by winding thread on a later-removed fimo core. Yu Ping Lin's origami-inspired fabric structures could be worn as brooches or bangles, and turned inside out to display a series of three-dimensional filigree shapes.

Two further makers might have proved much more sober, but they both used colour and abstract shapes as exuberantly as their fellow-exhibitors. Reka Fekete's interest in dilapidated architecture (and tick-tacky boxes) produced a group of articulated pieces with rectangles of flat colour which the wearer could move and fix to suit themselves. Katja Schlegel's sophisticated use of red, black and silver in very simple ovals and drops spoke eloquently with a bold minimalist voice.

At the same time, a group of makers were asked to contribute to the birthday celebration by offering a single characteristic 'Flourishing'. 101 rings would be voted on by members of the public, who were photographed wearing the piece of choice, and their comments exhibited on the leaves of a swirling tree painted on the end wall of the gallery space; it was filling up when I saw it, and the project stands very clearly as an indicator of Kath Libbert's gallery's importance as an accessible disseminator and encourager of contemporary work, both the relatively conventional and the exploratory and innovative. Long may it continue to Flourish.

Pictures: Seulgi Kwon. Candy Bar brooch, 2012, silicone.

The Flourish Tree, with photographs of visitors and their chosen rings.

Flourish

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