Blanche Tilden – ''Twist' Necklace, 2025
Blanche Tilden – ''Twist' Necklace, 2025

Blanche Tilden

Blanche Tilden – ''Twist' Necklace, 2025

$2,100

These necklaces capture a colour shift - an exciting departure from monochrome to colour, exploring links between jewellery, photography, architecture, and the body. Tilden's signature themes of transparency, repetition, connection, and movement are still apparent, new forms and colour combinations take her established visual language into unexplored territory, creating moments of stillness and calm that emerge from the layered chaos of everyday urban life.

The materials used these necklaces are combinations of coloured borosilicate glass, anodised titanium and 925 silver. Each necklace is made of multiple handmade and laser cut components, assembled with 925 silver wire links.

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Blanche Tilden has forged an international reputation practicing in both studio glass and contemporary jewellery since 1995. Exploring an enduring fascination with the material and metaphoric potential of glass, Tilden's work prompts us to consider evolving relationships between humanity and technology, referencing modernism, industrial materials and objects, and the built environment.

In 2023, Blanche was awarded a PhD by ANU, researching uses of glass in combination with other materials to investigate an idea central to contemporary jewellery - which is value. Looking beyond traditional understandings of intrinsic value, this practice-based research explored cultural, historic, aesthetic, and sentimental values relating to both glass and jewellery.

Creative collaborations push Blanche's multidisciplinary practice in new directions, combining handmaking, industrial and digital processes to make tangible and conceptual links between herself and the wearers and viewers of her work.

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Trove: Contemporary Jewellery

27 September - 9 November 


Jewellery has always played a significant role conveying messages about the relationships between people and the things they value – communicating across cultural, social, personal and political levels. Trove will feature a curated collection of works created by some of Australia's most forward-thinking and renowned artisans working in the field of jewellery. Exploring themes such as identity, culture, and sustainability, this exhibition will showcase works that are both visually striking and conceptually engaging.

 

Featuring the works of Roseanne Bartley, Liv Boyle, Lorraine Brigdale, Christine Collins, Laila Marie Costa, Laura Deakin, Samantha Dennis, Carly Tarkari Dodd, Anna Davern, Polly Dymond, Kirsten Haydon, Inari Kiuru, Anke Kindle, Sarah Lockey, Sim Luttin, Leslie Matthews, Belinda Newick, Emily O'Brien, Gabbee Stolp, Blanche Tilden, Zoe Veness and Melinda Young

Read more about the exhibition here:

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Material: borosilicate glass, anodised titanium, oxidised 925 silver

Dimensions: approx. 9 x 220mm

Please note when purchasing, exhibition works are to be collected when exhibition closes.

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