Show Us Your 'Rona

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What a show of the year. Lockdown, lockjaw, social distancing, virtuality, so many screens and a nebulous continuum of time without movement. For some of us, anyway.

What is jewellery without bodies and in isolation? Perhaps process, therapy, repetition, memory, a distillation of thought into form, fear, hope – or there is no jewellery: only a jeweller without vocation.

So many responded from around the globe. So many stories. So many objects: ‘Coronas’ reinterpreted, lockdown martinis, memento mori, obsessions, autobiography and political statement.
TempContemp and Bridget Kennedy Project Space present the pandemic works, thoughts and experiences of 34 contemporary jewellers.

Appropriately digitized, see a spectrum of ‘Rona’s projected in the window at Bridget Kennedy Project Space, North Sydney; Online at tempcontemp.com and via Instagram.

Join us live on Zoom with some of the 34 featured artists on Saturday 14 November, 8am (RSVP to tempcontemp@gmail.com for the link by 11 November).

Images:
Constantinos Papadoukas, Cistern of Balance, 2020, Copper, 28x40x21,
Grae Burnished, Shut Ya Mouth!, 2018, Textile: cotton, satin, felt, aluminium sheet and brass zipper, 150mm x 90mm
Macarena Bernal, liquid optimism, 2020, alchohol, glass, fruit, 150x60x60