Singapore Design Festival 2007

Synopsis:

Tasmania is blessed with an extraordinary number of talented artists and designers who draw their inspiration from their beautiful island home.

Singular & Multiple: New jewellery from Tasmania presents stunning works by ten of Tasmania's top jewellers. This comprehensive body of work showcases a unique blend of traditional and contemporary practice and brings together two key areas within craft and design practice. It explores the thread between exhibition and production jewellery; the singular and the multiple. This exhibition considers the differences that emerge in the construction of a collection or range of accessories and the creation of more experimental, sometimes even unwearable, one off pieces.

Singular & Multiple underlines the diverse creativity which is characteristic of Tasmanian design. The exhibited works range from fashion accessories to striking exhibition pieces, and explore a wide array of materials from traditional Tasmanian Aboriginal marineer shells, to plastic cutting cable used in domestic whipper snipers.

Exhibiting artists: Diane Allison, Carmen Blyth, Kate Case, Anita Dineen, Dulcie Greeno, Natalie Holtsbaum, Jeanette James, Marisa Molin, Linda Van Niekerk, Jude Walsh. Singular & Multiple: New jewellery from Tasmania is curated by Kate Rhodes of Craft Victoria and Brian Parkes of Object Gallery; presented by Arts Tasmania and Austrade; and supported by Tourism Tasmania.