Transformation: Craft ACT annual members exhibition
29 October - 14 December 2021 Our 2021 members exhibition, Transformation, will showcase contemporary expressions of craft and design uniting time-honoured techniques with modern interpretations, in line with our golden anniversary celebrations. This is a showcase exhibition demonstrating the trends in contemporary craft and design in Australia by practitioners from the ACT and surrounding region.
29 October - 14 December 2021
Our 2021 members exhibition, Transformation, will showcase contemporary expressions of craft and design uniting time-honoured techniques with modern interpretations, in line with our golden anniversary celebrations. This is a showcase exhibition demonstrating the trends in contemporary craft and design in Australia by practitioners from the ACT and surrounding region.
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Elizabeth Curry<br />
Associate Member / Metals<br />
Biography<br />
Elizabeth Curry is a Queanbeyan-based<br />
designer-artist working primarily with<br />
metal. Elizabeth completed a Bachelor<br />
of Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Arts<br />
(Honours) at the Australian National<br />
University, receiving two scholarships,<br />
including the Robert Foster Gold and<br />
Silversmithing Honours Scholarship, and<br />
four Emerging Artist Support Scheme<br />
Awards in her honours year. Elizabeth’s<br />
interests are broad however her more<br />
recent work maintains a strong emphasis<br />
on pattern and line. Having recently<br />
embarked on her professional career,<br />
Elizabeth has a lot of ideas and projects in<br />
the pipeline and is looking forward to what<br />
is still to come.<br />
Artist Statement<br />
A life-long fascination with patterns<br />
and the contentment they are able to<br />
elicit, lead Elizabeth to create her own<br />
intricate, hand-drawn, mandala-style<br />
designs. Through the process of drawing,<br />
an unconscious divulgence of a visual<br />
archive is released and truly unique and<br />
intuitive, yet somehow familiar, designs<br />
are produced. It is these designs that<br />
were then employed as the vehicle for<br />
generating the works displayed.<br />
The Untitled Shoulder Brooch is an<br />
amalgamation of five different mandala<br />
designs, brought together and layered to<br />
form something that is both beautiful and<br />
fierce. Inspired by the form of the body, the<br />
piece moulds to the wearer like armour,<br />
transforming the delicate two-dimensional<br />
designs into one three-dimensional piece.<br />
Image: Elizabeth Curry, Untitled Shoulder<br />
Brooch, 2021, copper and stainless steel. Photo:<br />
Courtesy of the artist.<br />
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