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Manon van Kouswijk
Ornamental Residue
Ornamental Residue
2012-2014
porcelain,pigment, glaze, stainless steel
Photo: Jeremy Dillon
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Ornamental Residue
Manon van Kouswijk
08 May – 02 Jun 2018
“I like to think it is possible to reinvent jewellery, despite the fact that over its long history, its archetypal forms and motifs haven’t fundamentally changed. I view these archetypes as templates that I use for my translations of existing jewellery forms.
My approach to contemporary jewellery practice is multi-disciplinary, an integral aspect of my practice is the framing and contextualising of my work through the making of exhibitions and artist publications often in collaboration with other practitioners”.
Manon van Kouswijk
“Ornamental Residue” originates from a study into the typology of brooches. For this series of work Manon van Kouswijk has compiled and extended iconic brooch forms and motifs from the history and tradition of jewellery. She has translated these existing forms through a process of casting porcelain into hand-build clay moulds. The resulting shapes are abstractions of the brooch motifs that she started working from. They are like the residue of a distillation process.
Photos: Jeremy Dillon