设计师简介
Moniek Schrijer is a Contemporary Jewellery Artist from Aotearoa – New Zealand who holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts and a Post-Graduate Diploma from Whitireia NZ Facility of Art.
Moniek was awarded a Herbert Hofmann Preis during Schmuck in München (2016) and recently exhibited in Non-Stick Nostalgia at the Museum of Art and Design, New York (2019) her work is held in significant private and museum collections nationally and internationally.
“The transformative potential of used and often discarded materials fuels my practice, exploring notions of time and timelessness, the known and unknown. I am drawn to attributes in items that are reflections of the past, imaginings of the future and observations of the everyday. I am a collector of symbols and signifiers….I riff on these, working with ideas of technology, architecture and contemporary culture. I make expressive work using a wide variety of matter and processes.”
作品和设计说明
Piece 1
SNAIL MAIL (pendant)
materials: sterling silver, turbo shells, harakeke flax, cotton cord dimensions: 190x120x45mm
year: 2019
My pendant, snail mail speaks of growth and evolution conceptually and physically. All materials used: sterling silver, cotton cord, harakeke flax, and turbinidae shells have developed and transformed naturally or synthetically from one state to another.
Conceptually the title and format of Snail Mail explores ideas of our ever changing ways of accessing information and receiving communication, as the pendant was inspired by seeing garden snails crawling over a pile of scrunched up newspapers — an old and almost obsolete format to receive daily news.
Snail Mail also references the postal system that in my country is now slower than ever before in a world which is speeding up — questioning our evolution or de-evolution.
Piece 2
LEONARDO (necklace)
materials: sterling silver, brass, aluminium studs – steel screws, patina (waxed) year: 2019
dimensions: turtle L:204xW:155xD:78 mm including chain 480mm
Leonardo is a turtle of mixed origin, a hybrid of heroic childhood characters he is also a protection piece.
Piece 3
THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON OUR SHOULDERS (brooch)
materials: sterling silver, brass, pounamu (nz jade), steel wire year: 2016
dimensions: 120x88x30mm
Turtles and Tortoises have been depicted and revered throughout thousands of years of civilisation; from Ancient Egypt to Polynesia, thought to carry the weight of the heavens and the world on their back, they denote migration, wisdom and endurance, the present day they have become a symbol of the environment and environmentalism.
The Epaulettes / Brooches that I have created not only reference deity worship and historical jewellery, they also speak of the now. The mass displacement of people through conflict having to carry their worldly possessions on their shoulders; The impact modern
material in a consumer-driven society is having on the environment with future generations left to shoulder the weight of current choices.
