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Romanticism and Reason – Australian Jewellery 1955-1997
This exhibition traced the evolution of Australian contemporary jewellery practice through the work of 17 eminent makers selected from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Collection. Romanticism was explored in the work of makers who identified with the ideal of the independent artisan, connected to the process of making through skill and intimate knowledge of…
Fragile Objects
Artist Elsje van Keppel strived to develop and extend the interaction between texture, cloth, print/dye marks, colour, stitch and geometrical surfaces, evidenced in this major exhibition of works which included large scale textiles. Works of a truly sculptural nature and others that appeared to converge for a moment; those which have spent many years in…