Transplantation: A Sense of Place and Culture – touring UK and Australia 2011 - 2013
This touring exhibition of contemporary narrative jewellery explored the sense of place and cultural identity through the theme of Transplantation. Artists based in the UK and Australia explored their own sense of place and individual cultural identity as a consequence of their personal and family experiences of transplantation.
“For Transplantation, I have constructed fantastical hybrid creatures that can be imagined to inhabit an alternative colonial dimension. These creatures appear to have been borne of an absinthe fuelled liaison between May Gibbs and Hunter S. Thompson. The resulting brooches are part Aussie folk craft, part comment on cultural intervention and part humorous acknowledgement of the hybrid nature of contemporary Australian culture.”
Transplantation: A Sense of Place and Culture was developed by University of Lincoln, assisted by the National Centre for Craft and Design and funded by Arts Council England. In Australia it is toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland.
