1 / 9
Jane Dodd
Rococo Revolution
Fuchsprellen #2
Brooch, 2014
lignum vitae, beef bone, marcasite, sterling silver,
75x24mm
$POA | SOLD

2 / 9
Jane Dodd
Rococo Revolution
A Jungle Incident
Brooch, 2014
lignum vitae, ebony, 18ct gold, ruby, silver
55x48mm
$2,350 | ENQUIRE

3 / 9
Jane Dodd
Rococo Revolution
Roast
Brooch, 2014
ebony, bone, 9ct gold, silver, marcasite
70x52mm
$POA | SOLD

4 / 9
Jane Dodd
Rococo Revolution
An Eagerly Anticipated Arrival
Brooch, 2014
lignum vitae, bone, marcasite, silver
75x45mm
$1,650 | ENQUIRE

5 / 9
Jane Dodd
Rococo Revolution
Wrestling #2
Brooch, 2015
mother of pearl, ruby, pearls, silver
100x65mm
$POA | SOLD

6 / 9
Jane Dodd
Rococo Revolution
Cull
Brooch, 2015
beef bone, sterling silver
53x55mm
$1,750 | ENQUIRE

7 / 9
Jane Dodd
Rococo Revolution
Feather
Pendant, 2015
bone, dye, sterling silver
127x28mm
$870 | ENQUIRE

8 / 9
Jane Dodd
Rococo Revolution
Sir Rococo
Brooch, 2015
bone, 18ct & 9ct gold, silver, marcasite
95x25mm
$2,400 | ENQUIRE

9 / 9

Rococo Revolution

$POA | ENQUIRE

Rococo Revolution

Jane Dodd

21 Apr – 16 May 2015

“A recent whirlwind tour of museums and treasure houses in Europe proved both exciting and nauseating in equal measures. The extravagance of the natural materials used and the incalculable hours of human graft manifest in the displayed objects shocked me.   The magnificent and sumptuous housing of these elite collections was similarly staggering.   However I couldn’t help but be guiltily grateful that the world was nutty and cruel enough for such excesses to have happened.  My pleasure was my shame – or the other way around.

 

Rococo Revolution is my reaction to this experience.  It illustrates my discomfort with the way we ‘hoover up’ wildlife and environment for our own frivolous ends.   With these pendants I want to honour the simple, elegant forms of the animal world.  The subject of the brooches is the battle between nature and culture. The collection of works pays homage to the crazy and rich craft traditions of the Rococo Age”.

Jane Dodd has been making jewellery for 20 years.  Formerly a partner at Workshop 6 in Kingsland, she now lives in Dunedin.

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