Transplantation: A Sense of Place and Culture

Transplantation: A Sense of Place and Culture

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Posted 2014-02-25 by Manuelfollow

Mon 10 Feb 2014 - Fri 11 Apr 2014

Don't miss your chance to get engaged, challenged, and be delighted by the touring exhibition of UK's National Centre for Craft & Design. Curated by Professor Norman Cherry of the University of Lincoln, the exhibition is currently in the Sydney leg of its Australian tour.



Dubbed Transplantation: a sense of place and culture, the exhibition features the works of 12 carefully selected contemporary Australian and British jewellery artists that explore and articulate on personal experience of cultural, familial, and artistic transplantation of one sort or another. As a result, there is gathered under one roof a collection of powerful, engaging, and thought-provoking jewellery pieces, upon which each of us can readily relate to and seriously reflect on. Everyone in Australia, after all, except perhaps for the original stewards of the land, are from a family of migrants, transplanted from elsewhere.



Through the exhibit, people are invited to think about their own cultural sense of place, and perhaps re-evaluate it. The exhibit exposes jewelleries from another angle, not just as wearable decor or something to match the outfit for the day or as an indicator of status and wealth, but rather as an eminently portable and wearable artform with a rich story behind it of people and history, a piece of art that is pregnant with metaphors.



The exhibition is hosted by Macquarie University in North Ryde, which is next door to the train station and the bus interchange. Free and open to the public, the exhibition will run from 10 February to 7 March 2014 at the Macquarie University Art Gallery. It will be on display for an additional period at the exhibition space of the Macquarie University Library from 12 March to 11 April 2014.



Transplantation: a sense of place and culture features the work of contemporary artists Jivan Astfalck (UK), Roseanne Bartley (AU), Nicholas Bastin (AU), Norman Cherry (UK), Lin Cheung (UK), Jack Cunningham (UK), Anna Davern (AU), Joungmee Do (AU), Sheridan Kennedy (AU), Bridie Lander (UK/AU), Jo Pond (UK), and Laura Potter (UK).



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!date 10/02/2014 -- 11/04/2014
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