Anke Kindle – 'Eichinger' Ring, 2023

Street Sweepers is a collaborative jewellery project between Melbourne’s street sweeping fraternity and jeweller Anke Kindle. This project is inspired by the street sweeping machines, the knowledge and stories the machine operators bring to the equation as well as the machines industrial and mechanical beauty.

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Studio Blau. is an object and jewellery design workshop that uses the brush as decorative, ornamental device to question the politics of inanimate, domestic objects and the politics that go in hand with these inanimate objects. As such Studio Blau has delved into the making of brushworks that can be displayed on the body as jewellery yet are bold statements that question the meaning and stories we ascribe to inanimate entities such as the works we choose to be adorned by and with. Studio Blau. examines the concept of the brush in the broader cultural context. The production of the brushworks are both traditional and conceptual. The brush itself changes from purely functional to a highly ornamental object without an obvious function beyond its decorative purpose. This allows for questions about the meaning and purpose of the object itself.

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Street Sweepers

Material: sterling silver, synthetic stone (dark charcoal)

Dimensions: size O