week 6 / 7 blog

                                                 Fran Allison

1,  Joker brooch,  $580,  oxidised silver, miniature card, bottle caps

2,  Club brooch,  $580,  oxidised silver, miniature card
3,  Diamond brooch,  $580,  oxidised silver, miniature card, found jewellery

The first brooch that Fran Allison have made is a Joker brooch made with oxidised sliver , miniature card and bottle caps. And her second brooch is a Club brooch made with oxidised silver and miniature as well her third brooch is a Diamond brooch made with oxidised silver , miniature card and found jewellery. What I like her work how she made her brooch with playing cards and metal and bottle caps is really interesting to look at. I really like how she use the bottle cap and turn it to a little flower and cut out a metal make the red bottle cap to stand out more. The other thing I like about her Joker brooch is how she also have that flower on the outside of her brooch it's a clever idea to make it look like a flower brooch. But I don't know what the idea to her work on the second one maybe just a random idea to cut out and paste it onto the play card but it's in interesting looking brooch as well. Her third brooch the Diamond brooch is amazing I like that jewellery that she have found and use as her brooch. 

                                                 
                                                       Sharon Fitness

Jiggle Wiggle Wobble Bounce

Sharon Fitness
8th September – 3rd October 2009
Inform Contemporary Jewellery, Christchurch


Sharon Fitness “My practice evolves around play, fun and random happenings. I work with silicone because it offers the flexibility, changeability and tactility I need to produce playful wobbly wearable beings. These brooches have a life of their own, often prompting the wearer to jiggle wiggle wobble and bounce along with them. They attract smiles and encourage interaction with others”.

Sharon Fitness brooch is called Jiggle Wiggle Wobble Bounce it looks like she made it with rubber or plastic not quite sure. But I like how she made a brooch that's actually playful and fun to wear with when you jumping up and down it bounces or if you running or power walking. Her brooch reminds me of the Poppy flower and how it's sitting on the grass makes it more like a flower so interesting brooch. 

Blog task Week 5

Mark Vaarwerk 



 The plastic bags are either hand spun with a drop spindle to make necklaces, or fused with heat to make rings or brooches. In the case of plastic bottles (generally polyethylene bottles - for example milk and shampoo bottles, tomato sauce bottles, some yoghurt containers, etc) I have fused to make rings, brooches and bracelets. To make a ring i would cut the bottle into strips the width I would like the ring to be and then wind it firmly around a metal rod the same diameter I would like the inside of the ring to be. Aluminum foil is then wrapped around it to hold the layers in place and it is gently heated through in a kiln. once it cools again the aluminum foil is removed, the plastic is tapped off the rod and trimmed into shape and finally the surface is sanded and polished to make it shiny.



We think this is so very true - A big part of the supercycling ethos is one of re-self-empowerment (sorry that is such a clumsy made up word - but it does the job) The notion of having someone else deal with our mess/rubbish/waste has become so natural to us that we think that it is someone else's problem to solve. But it's our own, and we only really need to do a little to help the situation - being mindful of our own waste and what we are doing with it is actually easy - there is no rule against taking these matters into our own hands, though not all of us will do it so eloquently and with such wit as Mark does.

homework part 2, 2010

some of the additional new work presented at gaffa gallery, sydney

bracelet green 94mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, colouring 
pencil


brooch pink 64mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, acrylic car
light covers, printer ink, stainless steel, sterling
silver

brooch beige 49mm

materials: expanded polystyrene food box, cellulose 
acetate tortiseshell rayban wayfarer frames,
stainless steel, sterling silver

brooch beige 49mm

materials: expanded polystyrene food box, cellulose acetate tortiseshell rayban wayfarer frames,stainless steel, sterling silver

pendant yellow 54mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, acrylic car
head-light cover, printer ink