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Amaridian is pleased to announce the title of the first exhibition in The Conversation Series.
When subliminal coordinates connect, alchemy takes place: the rare components of select energies combine together forming a unique formula that creates beauty.
The construct of this show traces an artistic conversation between these artists: a silent, creative process that occurs when an artist realizes an idea in material form. The earth surrenders the media that these artists work in: clay, metal, glass, wood, indigo, cotton and wool. This closeness to nature represents the artists' understanding of a union with life and what it means to have a symbiotic relationship with the earth.
The final four artists selected to participate in the introductory exhibition in the series can be found below. |
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ANDREW EARLY
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Andrew Early comes from a line of talented wood workers. His grandfather was a skilled cabinet maker who only used hand tools. His father John, inherited a love for wood that lead him to the art of wood turning. After earning a diploma in architectural drafting, Andrew joined his father and began to learn the techniques that John had perfected over the years.
Andrew introduced a contemporary dimension to the business with his unique, simple style in both turning and furniture design, which attracted attention from local and international audiences. |
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CHRISTINA BRYER
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Christina Bryer's highly trained ceramicist's hand marries the mathematics of aperiodicity with not only feminine craft, but also the metaphysics of cosmic structure.
Inspired by Roger Penrose's dart and kite patterns, Bryer's eye picks up on the endlessly repeating patterns in everything from the mosaics of the Alhambra to unicellular organisms to the cross section of a strand of DNA.
As a child it was the five- and six-pointed stars surrounding a double helix pattern in the border of the nursery linoleum that attracted and fascinated her. She soon worked out that if you traced the five-pointed stars, the pattern continued indefinitely whereas with the six-pointed stars you had to lift your finger after three points.
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RON=C9L JORDAAN
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In 2003, Ronel Jordaan, having been a textile designer for 26 years, began researching the possibilities of using felt as a creative medium. Entirely self-taught and following her own creative instincts, she began to turn fine gossamer thread into robust felted forms. By patiently rubbing and coaxing threads of pure wool into shapes in nature that inspire her, she found her direction and started a small home industry. Next she trained a handful of women to help her. Recognized for their originality and design uniqueness, her creations found an immediate market. Within a year she sought bigger premises and a year after that she needed to expand further.
She has plied the felting process to create a panoply of textures and shapes, of leaves and flowers, webs, thorns, hides and bark. The most recognizable of all her products are her pebbles and rocks. Her range is continually expanding, from accessories, scarves, shawls and wraps to household objet, carpets, lamps, and throws.
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THREADS OF AFRICA
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It all started with an Australian mans dream of a gold bowl. Although wirework has been described as a ' quintessentially Central and South African craft ' practiced by different tribal people over hundreds of years, there is no evidence of gold wire baskets or bowls in Africa's archeological record. Threads of Africa was born and soon developed into a unique style. During the nineteenth century wirework extended from jewelry onto weapons and as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth new wire became available. To the industrially produced iron, copper and brass wire of the earlier period was now added aluminium. The Zulu people continued to use these materials until recently to produce a wide range of jewelry and other decorative items.
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