Hi every one
I just want to tell you about our new exhibition, Rose Osborne, Movement In Light from 7July – 3 August 2007. Our very own exhibitions coordinator is showing her first jewellery collection at The Hive and it is stunning. Rose graduated in Photography and Painting from The Australian National University School of Art and is used to working in very large format. Her new work is quite a transition from this and is small and precious.
Rose says of her work:
“Movement In Light exists due to a change in my environment, exposure and experience. It is a transition for me as photographer and painter into the area of jewellery design.
Photography and body adornment have a relationship that extends back to the beginning of photography, where lockets, pendants and watches were used as objects in which the owner carried the images of a loved one or loved ones. Light is very much like a loved one for me. I find myself in a constant response to it. It can be subtle and delicate, a soft shadow cast from a tree that moves slowly on my bed room wall or a bold and definite dark cast of a building across street walkers, it is mood and atmosphere with the power to facilitating outcomes.
Each pendant is cast in white bronze and the miniature photograph encased is constructed purely from light, as it is absorbed and reflected by different man made surfaces within a controlled environment. I construct small sculptures, spin and expose them to red, yellow, green and blue light. A process developed László Moholy-Nagy, a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and was a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.
Each pendant is a recorded moment of my love of light and desire to be progressive in my practice.”
I have included an image of one of Rose’ pendants.
Cheers
Jenny
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