WEEK 6> FIND JEWELLERY OF MY CHIOSE LIST

2009 concubine

[Exotic Blend at Object space + Fingers]

Brooch, tea tin 

                             The backside of the Brooch

New Zealand-born contemporary jeweller, Chen Jiamusi avant-garde work correctly cities. By Christchurch demolition site, including decorative steel thermometer, burnt pine flooring, flag fragments, iron roof, gas water heaters, rivets brass salvaged from materials. This has been informed of her jewellery, both in its material production, which are related institutions and places. Her practice includes both decision making and wearing jewellery. Her work has been selected as New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Germany and Norway exhibitions.

2010 Urban Metabolism Series

Brooch / Cooking oil tin 

Most of her works on display of discarded cans or metal. She went to a different ruins looking for those that can be used to recycle materials that are very interesting. As a half-breed she hopes to blend Chinese and Western art, some of the works to see why Chinese elements. She collected a box of tea, the first one we can see that China brooch classical motifs. I love her work and ideas, as an artist she could become valuable waste materials, which is good. Just as we do now, those milk bottles and ketchup bottles, we used to develop our creativity, we also produced a necklace or brooch, we give the value of those recyclables.

BLOG 3 >SELECTED ARTWORK --NAN GOLDIN

Nan Goldin (born 1953)
Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC
1991
Photograph, colour, Cibachrome print, on paper mounted onto board
Dimensions
image: 695 x 1015 mm


She began documenting the post-punk new-wave music scene, along with the city's vibrant, post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was drawn especially to the Bowery's hard-drug subculture; these photographs, taken between 1979 and 1986, form her famous work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency — a title taken from a song in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera. These snapshot aesthetic images depict drug use, violent, aggressive couples and autobiographical moments. Most of her Ballad subjects were dead by the 1990s, lost either to drug overdose or AIDS; this tally included close friends and often-photographed subjects Greer Lankton and Cookie Mueller.

This is a large colour photograph of two drag queens known as Misty and Jimmy Paulette. Goldin has photographed them close-up, sitting next to each other inside a taxi. They are framed against the taxi's rear and side windows, through which other yellow New York taxis are visible. The drag queens stare directly at Goldin's camera, aimed at them from the taxi's front seat. They are cropped just below breast level. The camera's flash has illuminated and accentuated their heavy makeup and shiny clothes. Misty wears a light blue wig, big heart-shaped silver earrings and a pvc-textured sleeveless top stretched tight over large fake breasts. Jimmy Paulette's costume includes a streaked blonde wig, a white stretchy-net top and a gold bra, the straps of which have fallen off his shoulders. White padding visible in one of the bra cups and two large holes in the front of the white net confer a sleazy edge to this glamour.

Godlin with his camera shows a world not to be accepted in the world, but she showed them their beauty, and want to tell them that he is willing to accept their lifestyle. Surrounds them, dressed in glamorous social life in order to live the fantasy rebuilding identity, he felt they made ​​a real self, which is their choice of lifestyle. This filled with drugs, a third gender. She recalled: "I ​​met a whole new crowd in New York in 1990, I took my new friend after many years of experience and continue to shoot both sexes with their codes and definitions and their difficulties, about each other's struggles this is liberation, in order to meet these people have crossed the boundaries of gender. "

WEEK 5 > AN ARTIST THAT MAKES JEWELLERY FROM RECLAIMED MATERIALS

Riona Whero Cross

Brooch

Matchitt, Gina

artist

2001

Image  74 (Height) x 46 (Length) x 6 (Width/Depth) mm

Gina Matchitt is one of a number of Maori jewellers who have been developing jewellery that draws on contemporary New Zealand styles to express Maori customary concepts.

Matchitt has divided the Merchandise portfolio into three groups:

Wairua (the spirit) is the first group, and it deals with religion. Here Matchitt comments on the way the early missionaries suppressed Maori rituals and art practices, and expected Maori to adopt European clothing, and ways of life

This may be Gina Matchitt broach one of the first group. Its shape is representative of religious cross. It is a lion in the middle of a pattern, red background. This pattern is also very familiar with the kind of beer trademarks, and its material should be cans, Gina Matchitt jewelry materials are recycled stuff, cans trademarks are common, I think this is an interesting works of the artist.

WEEK 6 > FRESH GALLERY

"Ancestral Blood", 2013 by Slyvia Marsters


Aitutaki/New Zealand European


Oil on canvas


1460mm x 1290mm

This painting gave me a deep impression, I really like it. Because I appreciate the plants can draw a vivid and energetic. The whole picture looks structured, clear colors between the leaves. Even from a distance to see the whole picture is clear, the picture looks plump fruit inside. Most of the time I do not like painting plants because plants can not grasp the sense of color and space. The artist has high technology, I really like it.





HOW PHOTOGRAPHY USED TO REPRESENT A COMMUNITY 

Photography is a lens and photographic materials, the visible objects and scenes Static true record of the process. Its function depends on the application in photography lens, film speed of a knot parameters determine different meanings picture: dynamic, blurred background highlight the main, still fast moving objects. Photography is the pursuit of beauty is a symbol of modern lifestyle, but also love life, enjoy life manifestation of the art of photography is different from the traditional arts, it belongs to the category of popular culture. With the rapid development of information technology, photographic equipment operation more simple, regardless of age and educational level of restrictions, photographic art of expression is also more diverse, in people's daily life everywhere.