Leslie Matthews – 'Gestures #2', Brooch, 2022
Leslie Matthews – 'Gestures #2', Brooch, 2022
Leslie Matthews – 'Gestures #2', Brooch, 2022

Leslie Matthews

Leslie Matthews – 'Gestures #2', Brooch, 2022

$1,520

Responding to surrounding environments, Matthews' creates contemporary jewellery and sculptural objects that explore the layers and interrelationships between spatial perception, gestural mark-making and materiality. Drawing on diverse materials including sterling silver and pigmented porcelain, each is used to express an intricacy and luminosity in the forms, aiming to create within the work a sense of depth and intensity of textures. The linear impressions created across the surface of the porcelain communicate the flow of thought and intuition through line. Broadening understanding of the interface between the edge of the line, materials of the object and three-dimensional space. As a practitioner Matthews' work aims to make connections and offers reflections on the impermanence of life, the pathos of things and the intense emotions objects can evoke within us.

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Practising in the field of contemporary craft, visual art and design, primarily as a contemporary jeweller, Leslie Matthews's practice is expressed through her national and international exhibitions profile. She has recently gained a Practice-led PhD (2023) from UniSA Creative. Leslie has exhibited in venues such as National Gallery of Australia; South Australian Art Gallery; Object Gallery, Sydney; JamFactory and Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide. She has also shown at international venues such as The Netherlands Zilvermuseum, Schoonhoven; Alternatives, Rome; Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris; Gallery MOA, South Korea; Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan; Galerie Ra, Amsterdam; TEFAF Art Fair, Maastricht. Leslie has undertaken several artist residencies including, Australia Council for the Arts, Barcelona Studio; Japan/South Australia Cultural Exchange; Artist Scholar, Dunedin, NZ; The British School at Rome; Yiwei Art Foundation, Shanghai; Artist in Residence, University of Wyoming.

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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: pigmented porcelain, blackened sterling silver 

Dimensions: approx. 60 x 80 x 10 mmmm

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

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