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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
Sweet Reminder
2023-2025
Powder coated brass, vintage glass bottles
$Sets from 660 | ENQUIRE
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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
I Will Meet You in the Garden - Coreopsis
2025
Powder coated brass, vintage glass bottle
170 x 190 x 160mm
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More Than A Handful of Flowers
I Will Meet You in the Garden - Golden Trumpet
Neckpiece, Brooches, Objects, 2025
Powder coated brass, sterling silver, stainless steel
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More Than A Handful of Flowers
I Keep What I Can of You - Posy
2025
Powder coated brass, vintage glass bottle
295 x 210 x 135mm
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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
I Keep What I Can of You
Installation view
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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
Installation view
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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
Installation view
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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
Sweet Reminder
2023-2025
Powder coated brass, vintage glass bottles
$Sets from 660 | ENQUIRE
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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
Flower Patch Brooches
2025
Powder coated brass, sterling silver, stainless steel pins
Approx 55 x 55mm each
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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
Installation view
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Jess Dare
More Than A Handful of Flowers
I Will Meet You in the Garden
2025
Installation view
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More Than A Handful of Flowers
Jess Dare
01 Nov – 29 Nov 2025
For over a decade Jess Dare has used the potent symbolism of flowers, to explore themes of memory, loss and grief. Flowers are alive for the briefest of times, a bittersweet reminder of life’s transience. More Than a Handful of Flowers is an intimate and deeply personal exploration of family, motherhood, and memory. It gestures towards the rituals of care we pass down—gardening, gathering, offering flowers—that connect generations of her family.
Jess Dare lives and works in Adelaide, Australia on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people. She is a skilled jeweller and flameworker renowned for working in both metal and glass. She is a partner of Gray Street Workshop (Est. 1985) one of Australia’s longest running collectively run studios for artists working in the field of contemporary jewellery and object making.
Jess has undertaken international residencies researching floral culture in Bangkok, Thailand (2014) and Shanghai, China (2015). In 2016/17 she undertook a major public art commission, working closely with Professor Richard Johnson AO to create a permanent memorial in Sydney’s Martin Place symbolising the spontaneous sea of flowers laid by thousands of people following the December 2014 Martin Place siege in the Lindt Café.
Jess exhibits nationally and internationally and is represented in major international, national and state collections including Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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