art by nature…

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different signs in the same area…

Biskopsgården of today…

bubble head...

Some of “all” my creatures…

I absolutely love to make different creatures with different expressions; it makes my happy over my own funniness… Stupid in one way but absolutely great in another, I think that if I can make myself happy, others will be happy too.

This one I call “bubble head” and it’s made out of papier-mâché and a glass bubble…

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papier-mach%C3%A9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papier-m%C3%A2ch%C3%A9

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papel_mach%C3%A9

beside my motto; to be curios about life…

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Laurie Meseroll...

Darla – a primitive doll -- another of Laurie’s fantastically imaginative mixed media wall dolls, this one painted canvas, stuffed with saw dust and embellished with found objects and details, waxed, with mica and vintage millinery flowers, button eyes are wonderful and vintage, about 18”, WAS $160, NOW$58

By Laurie Meseroll.

From the fantastic and amazing inspiration website/; http://www.earthangelstoys.com/


Every time I get the newsletters from earth angle by e-mail I get happy over all the lovely creativity!
Aren’t these primitive dolls amazing, so lovely and beautiful I think.

coming up…

This will be my contributions for the exhibition...
and then I also will be one of the participants of Tehri Tolvanens workshop.


KORU3 Exhibition, Imatra art museum, 9. - 28.11.2009

KORU 3 exhibition participants were selected by Marie-José van den Hout, director of the Marzee gallery from The Netherlands, Eija Mustonen, principal lecturer, Saimaa University for Applied Sciences and Antonio Altarriba, coordinator for design of the Arts Council of Southeast Finland acting as secretary of the jury.

KORU3 exhibition organised an open call addressed to artists living and working in countries around the Baltic Sea (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Russia). The jury studied carefully over 1700 images from 145 entries projected anonymously on a screen and finally selected 46 artists for the exhibition.

Denmark
Kirsten Bak, Mette Klarskov, Per Suntum, Kaori Juzu, Annette Dam.

Estonia
Kaire Rannik, Ketli Tiitsar, Kristi Paap, Kristiina Laurits, Eve Margus-Villems, Maria Valdma, Berit Teeäär (photography)

Finland
Sari Liimatta, Helena Lehtinen, Maria Vuorinen, Nelli Tanner, Anna Rikkinen, Tarja Tuupanen, Maria Nuutinen.

Germany
Karin Seufert, Iris Bodemer, Susan Pietzsch, Constanze Schreiber, Ute Eitzenhöfer, Tabea Reulecke, Stefan Heuser, Karen Pontoppidan, Antje Stolz, Christine Matthias, Jutta Kallfelz, Valentina Seidel (photography)

Latvia
Anna Fanigina

Lithuania
Ugne Blazyte, Egle Cejauskaite, Jurgita Erminaite

Norway
Ingrid Nilsen, Nanna Melland, Sigurd Bronger

Poland
Aneta Marcinkiewicz; Malgosia Kalinska

Sweden
Paula Lindblom, Sofia Björkman, Mirjam Norinder, Auli Laitinen, Mona Wallström, Karin Johansson

http://www.saimia.fi/koru3/

a box by mail…

PLATINA firar 10 år!

Lördag 5 december 2009

Vi gör en samlingsutställning med flertalet av de vi jobbat med under åren.
Tanken är denna:
Alla inbjudna får en Platina smycke-ask.
Vi vill att du fyller den med ett av dina smycken eller på annat sätt förhåller dig till den.
Medium är valfritt.

Vill du vara med?


Hälsningar
Sofia Björkman

I get the invitation to be a part of the 10 years anniversary at Platina.
It will be interesting to see what I’m coming up with… I think.

Putte Helene Dal...

TENSION
Putte Helene Dal
Smyckekonstnär från Norge

Vernissage torsdagen den 1 oktober 17 - 20
PLATINA, Odengatan 68, Stockholm
Öppet må - fr 11-18, lö 11-15
Utställningen pågår tom 30 oktober
Välkommen!

Läs mer på http://www.platina.se/Pressrelease/Putte_press.html?id=26642&ptid=1029

Platina välkomnar Putte Helene Dal från Norge till sin första separatutställning i galleriet.
Putte Helene Dal kan beskrivas som en skattletare på jakt efter livets mekanismer.
I utställningen TENSION ser vi smycken uppbyggda av trasiga maskindelar och ihopskruvade detaljer från alla tänkbara instrument. Några av smyckena är rörliga, mekaniska delar har skruvats ihop och föremålen får våra tankar att snurra.

- Min utgångspunkt är ett ord, ett begrepp, en handling eller en situation som jag kommenterar i mina smycken. – säger Putte Helene Dal

Putte Helene Dal’s smycken kan ses som spänningsförhöjande verktyg, instrument för att mäta humörssvängningar och kittelspröt för att se hur länge vi klarar att hålla oss för skratt eller gråt. Hur långt kan vi gå innan vi brister? Särskilt fokus lägger hon i de spänningar vi bär på mellan vardagsrutiner och meningsfulla stunder i livet. I smycket ”M follows M” finns en indikator för minimum och maximum av kroppens energi, Vid maximum är batterierna laddade och livsglädjen på topp. Minimum visar när vi känner oss lågmälda eller behöver en vilopaus.
Smycket Pending illustrerar alla de val vi ställs inför och kan ses som mätsticka för stress och nervositet. Var går gränsen innan vi drabbas av stressrelaterade sjukdomar? Smycket består av en pil som kan rotera 360 grader och kan därmed pekar åt alla håll.
Hur god är du? I smycket ”God or Bad” vill indikatorn alltid tillbaka till ”Bad” hur mycket du än försöker få den att hålla sig vid ”Good”.
Material som Putte Helen Dal arbetar med är ready-mades som hon förändrar och kombinerar med akryl, mässing, aluminium, skruvar mm. Hälften av processen är att samla in stora mängder av föremål och hitta rätt delar som har potential att utlösa en idé eller passa in i det framtida arbetet.


- I min verkstad ligger det drivor av kartonger och kassar. Hyllorna är proppfulla med föremål, strikt sorterade efter teman som ständigt förändras beroende vilket tema fokus ligger på. – fortsätter Putte Helene Dal

I utställningen ser vi också en Animation ”My Heart Belongs Here”.
En prickad röd linje över världskartan kan ses som Putte Helene Dal’s egen livsresa. Hur hon förflyttar sig mellan många geografiska identiteter istället för att strikt hålla sig till en.
Animationen är ett spel och en animerad bild av ett liv i förändring.
och som ordspråket lyder; "Människor har fötter, inte rötter".

I have never heard this proverb before, but I like it a lot

"Människor har fötter, inte rötter". People have feet’s, no roots…

I think it sound much better in Swedish, but may be it’s some similar proverb in other countries, with “better” words for translation?!

rowanberries…

Autumn when it is as best… but mostly it’s windy, stormy and rainy here in Gothenburg, but on the other hand it’s much easier to like this kind of absolutely blue sky’s days when they shows up.

emergency exit…

Strange, who can use this?!

I’m really curios about the thought behind this “phenomena”.

same same but different…

I never promise you a rose garden…

I absolutely love this feeling…

To do the best you can about the situation you are in…

Jorge Manilla...

The Lingam event and exhibition at Konstfack in Stockholm, unlucky I had no time to visit this interesting show.

Jorge Manilla has done this art piece… you can find it at;
http://www.grayareasymposium.org/blog/
posted by; Christoph Zellweger

LINGAM
In south-east Asia the LINGAM is used as a fertility symbol. LINGAMs are worshiped in temples. The phallus has a more open meaning than soley sex. The western society relate LINGAMs only to sexuality, while this exhibition esents more than 100 international well known artists that have created a present day fertility object.
The LINGAMs are presented on pedestals made by the students from the Adellab department at Konstfack.

LINGAM
Date: September 7-12, 2009
Place: Vita Havet, Konstfack, LM Ericssons vag 14, Stockholm
Opening hours: 9:00 to 17:00hrs

http://www.konstfack.se/lingam/

Lisa Walker...

Lisa Walker
http://www.lisawalker.de/


http://www.fingers.co.nz/artists.htm

bright light evening…

Me and two of my colleges from the HDK time…
during the evening event at Konstepidemin and outdoors galley Hnoss.

Bibbi Forsman took this pic.
http://bibbiforsman.blogspot.com/


Here you can see more photos from the day…
http://konstepidemin.blogspot.com/

"Reconsidering Identity: a seminar on New Zealand jewellery"

It was an amazing day with a lot of colleges and really really good speech by Warwick Freeman and Lisa Walker. I have to say that I admire the booth and I get absolutely inspirited to work further with my own things, from new angles.
Unlucky I don’t get or took the opportunity to talk to this two very very great New Zealand artist, I was not in that mod and also a little bite shy at the moment, I got a terrible headache the whole day, but it get a way after a glass of superb New Zealand white wine.


First it was Love Jönsson who talks and then it was some opening words by New Zealand ambassador, H E Ms Barbara Bridge.
Liesbeth den Besten talk about the past and the future of New Zealand jewellery art, very intresting.
Then the high lights of the day; Warwick Freeman and Lisa Walker… They was talking about their work and why the work as they do and also where they get the ideas.
In between, in the fruit break, we could see the result of the workshop Lisa Walker had with the student from the jewellery art department at HDK earlier in the week.
Some of the photos are from this workshop.
Later on it was a reception at Galleri Hnoss, hosted by New Zealand embassy, and after that it was mingle and an evening party at Konstepidemin, Food and music for free.

The invitation by e-mail;
Welcome to "Reconsidering Identity: a seminar on New Zealand jewellery" tomorrow 19/9-09 at Röhsska museet. Registration starts at 11.00 and the talks at 11.30.
The seminar is followed by a reception in Warwick Freeman's exhibition at Galleri Hnoss, and an evening party with a complimentary buffet and live music.
Please see www.konstepidemin.com/hnoss for the full program.

Greeting from the organising committee



Here at Fingers you can find Lisa Walker and Warwick Freeman and many other jewellery artists too…


Fingers
Contemporary New Zealand jewellery

Established in 1974 by a group of local jewellery makers to promote their work, Fingers has become synonymous with innovation and originality and the development of an indigenous style of contemporary New Zealand jewellery.
Fingers has been at the forefront of treating and displaying the craft object as art, and has constantly challenged the notion of what is precious. Early exhibitions re-interpreting local materials such as bone, stone and paua shell were landmarks in contemporary practice, and Fingers continues to set standards of excellence.
As the oldest contemporary jewellery gallery in New Zealand, Fingers has become an institution recognised locally and internationally, providing a platform for many artist's careers. The core partners who started the Fingers co-operative back in 1974 are still practicing and evolving within their chosen medium and have become iconic figures within the New Zealand contemporary jewellery scene. Fingers has grown over the years and now represents the work of over firty artists encompassing a diverse range of skills and ideas.
http://www.fingers.co.nz/


Here is a lot of great artists and their work, check it out!
http://www.fingers.co.nz/artists.htm


Lisa Walker
http://www.lisawalker.de/
http://pauadreams.co.nz/

Lisa Walker is a New Zealand born, Munich based jeweller/artist/designer, mostly working in the area of contemporary jewellery. She exhibits and is involved in projects in museums, galleries, and other venues in Europe, Japan, America, Australia, and New Zealand. She is regularly invited to teach workshops and give lectures in educational institutions around the world.
One issue of her work is a study into the differences between an acceptable notion of beauty or stereo-type, and something else – the search for an aesthetic that we hardly ever see, but nevertheless perhaps recognise. She is continually pushing towards the extreme, and recognises this is a method which enables her to expand her thinking and way of working.
She works in a large range of materials and techniques.
She makes reactionary work, consciously active with influences from all walks of culture and life. The pieces are often laced with references to contemporary jewellery of the last 40 years, questioning and researching what jewellery means, what it can be.



Warwick Freeman
http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/warwick_freeman.htm




Thank you ALL, for organized this lecturing and for inspiration speeches and an opportunity to met colleges! A great day that I will take with me for a long time…



At Caroline Bäckmans blog http://jewellery-art.blogspot.com/
you can see some more photos from the workshop by Lisa Walker at HDK.




I’m so sorry, but I have some trouble with my blog, so it’s hard for me to add comments or name under each photo… There for no name of the jewellery artist or others who is in the photos.