THE NATURE OF MEMORY
Image: Image by Grant Hancock
Fresh from the Adelaide Fringe, where her exhibition won The Eran Svigos award for best visual art, Jess Dare brings her beautifully intricate collection to Studio 20/17 on Danks Street. These delicate and skilfully crafted works show the finer side of our native Australian flora. The familiar and at times uncannily reproduced plant seeds, miniature gumnuts and colourful new buds have been fashioned into both wearable art and conceptual pieces made of glass, silver, stainless steel and powder coated brass and copper.
In addition to the more colourful glass pieces, some of the broaches and necklaces evoke cooler, more lifeless botanical objects. These pieces may convey the theme of memory that Jess had intended for the collection, being less replica and more whimsy. “In this exhibition I aim to express the ephemeral nature of memory through the fragility of glass and nature itself,” says Dare. It is an impressive display. (KM)
Until April 20, Studio 20/17, 6b/2-6 Danks Street, Waterloo, free, studio2017.com.au
BY KATIE MAYORS
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