Orchid Art Jewelry Gallery - Brian Adam

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	Orchid Presents:	Brian Adam

	'Turangawaewae' (NZ Maori: 'Identity', 'Source of Creativity') is the theme for this year's New Zealand Biennial Jewellery Exhibition organised by The Dowse Art Museum, to tour NZ 1998/2000. I'm one of a twenty or so New Zealand Contemporary Jewellers selected to exhibit. These works are part of my response. Statement Eyewear today is no longer just visual aid. It's evident by the way we put on looking glasses to transform the flaw of our deteriorating eyesight into a significant asset that they have evolved into another way of daily self-expression. Frames as picture frames have supplanted the eyes, they mask, screen or mirror the face till the part stands for the whole.


	'Self Portrait' 900 silver, birch ply, leather + lenses I want to introduce frames from historical high points for me such as the 14th century leather frames here brought out of, um, hiding for a new life. These works fit in with my other eyewear jewellery; from my first paua shades of 1984 to the recent surprisingly modern 18th-century-derived silver eyeglasses. The way these are crudely sawn from the sterling in the manner of those times reveals my soft-tech roots.

	'Self Portrait' detail 900 silver, birch ply, leather + lenses

	'LeopardTin Pillbox Specs' painted tincan I've made a range of tab-and-slot plastic-extrusion spectacle kitschsets for New Zealanders to cut out, assemble the tabs and shout 'I AM!'
	see also the "metro" page


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