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| House Series Necklace with Cedar, Linen Paint Brass & Found Steel |
It is no wonder that the area’s stunning
mountain ranges, canyons and lakes have served as the magnificent backdrop of
feature films that include The Lord of
the Rings trilogy.
New Zealand is
also home to featured jewelry designer Kathryn Yeats.
The design style of New Zealand jewelry designers veers between subtle, unpretentious forms and the unique formations of contemporary art jewelry.
Where the latter style is
concerned found objects that include broken glass shards, nylon, rubber and
polyvinyl chloride are a few materials used to develop thought provoking visual
languages.
Featuring such materials as silk thread and silk fabric,
paper, linen, bone, wood and even human hair Yeat’s jewelry is a wild mix that provides
the unexpected elements so central to contemporary art jewelry.
Her design aesthetic is multi-layered with Gothic-style
pendant necklaces; the warm and cozy inclusion of needlepoint in brooch pins;
dingy, blackened silver chain links of necklaces that evoke a dank prison cell;
and she goes all Earth goddess with a crochet wire collar necklace. She tests many ideas producing whatever comes
to mind and that is how the Whitireia
Polytechnic graduate likes it.
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| Silk Fabric, Silk Thread and Sterling Silver Presence Pendant Necklace |
I am interested in time; in the deterioration of objects,
rusting and decay leaving its narrative on them, the record of their life of
use. Transient and fragile materials
attract me. I strive to strike a balance
between considered and intuitive work processes to create new ways to view
jewelry objects.”
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| Mahogany, Cotton, Bone & Found Ferrous Metal Ship of Fools Brooch Pin |
A selection of items from Yeats' collections is available for purchase at QuadrantGallery.com.
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