1 / 7
Mary Curtis
Inside Outside
Objects
2017
resin, paper, metal, plastic, sterling silver
various dimensions
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Mary Curtis
Inside Outside
Necklace, Found object on cord, Bangle
2017
oxidised sterling silver
various dimensions
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Mary Curtis
Inside Outside
Objects
2017
metal, paper, sterling silver
various dimensions
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Mary Curtis
Inside Outside
Brooches, earrings, objects
2017
sterling silver, resin
various dimensions
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Mary Curtis
Inside Outside
Object, Single earring
2017
sterling silver
various dimensions
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Mary Curtis
Inside Outside
Objects
2017
oxidised sterling silver, resin, paper
various dimensions
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Mary Curtis
Inside Outside
Necklace, Bangle
2017
oxidised sterling silver
various dimensions
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Inside Outside

Mary Curtis

26 Apr – 16 May 2017

More than an exploration of holes

“I have a collection of small metal objects with holes, arranged in a line on my kitchen wall, gathered over many years. I have never tired of looking at them, I am fascinated by the permeable quality of these objects designed to contain but also not.

The jewellery works in this exhibition have a similar quality, space is described by an outline but it passes through the forms with ease.

A line has no substance until it contains space; this was always in my head when making.

I am perpetually arranging and rearranging the things I make in groups in my workspace. To ask which principles of organisation are used in articulating the collection is to begin to discern what the collection is about.

The way I understand an object changes depending on its companions.  This visual dialogue between objects is a language I am always listening to, be it in a museum a gallery or in more personal spaces. The groupings presented in Inside Outside play with this language and present a collection of visual conversations”.

 

“To group objects in a series because they are the same is to simultaneously signify their difference”

 

Mary Curtis, 2017

 

Reference:  Stewart, S. 2005. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Duke University Press. USA.