Keeper Gallery //
February 25 - March 25 2010
Homework
Mark Vaarwerk
February 25 - March 25 2010
Homework
Mark Vaarwerk
Current exhibition
Mark Vaarwerk
'Homework'
25 February - 25 March 2010
"Delve into the garages, spare rooms, bottom drawers, cupboards-below-the-sinks of any home and you will be overwhelmed by mountains of stuff - and most of it plastic. Wasted pens, retired TVs or vacuum cleaners or printers, piles of dirty styrofoam boxes and packaging, shopping bags...
Or a stroll down a busy street, a quick glance in a lunchroom waste-bin, a shortcut down a city alley...
Plastics - discarded, forgotten, superseded, broken. Sifting through this seemingly endless source of raw materials, i transform these everyday materials, utilising simple techniques, into wearable items of jewellery. A small and colourful fragment, new and re-invented, but with still a hint of its less glamorous past." (Mark Vaarwerk)
www.vaarwerk.com
brooch black 49mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, acrylic car head-light cover, permanent marker ink, stainless steel, sterling silver
bracelet red 83mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, colouring
pencil
brooch green 52 mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, colouring pencil, stainless steel, sterling silver
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