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CHAPTER PREFACE

As a jewellery design lecturer I have dedicated my career
CONTENTS to advancing the knowledge of jewellery from a South
African perspective while pushing the boundaries of in-
ternational jewellery standards.
Contemporary jewellery began in the mid to
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late 1960s with a group of world renowned European
(personal adornment) and visual objects consciously
created through an expression of skill imagination (visual
artefact).
With the ideologies of contemporary jewellery as

ters degrees were rooted in jewellery is viewed as both
CHAPTER ADORNED BY ARTIST'S CURRICULUM a springboard, the work I did for my honours and mas-
PREFACE NATURE STATEMENT VITAE I am very fascinated by the notion of jewellery that does
wearable and as a visual artefact making it multimodal.
not look like traditional jewellery. This fascination is more
of a metaphor for life in that “what you see is not always
INTRODUCTION ARTIST'S WORK IMAGES OF WORK ARTIST’S PROFILE what you get” and “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. My
work needs to engage the end consumer on multiple
Artist’s insights Photographs Description of installation Exhibitions and awards levels, they need to physically pick the work up in order
Artist's biography to discover all the different aspects that make it what it is.
Contact details

Tlou (Elephant). July 2021.
Silk gloss PLA resin (white). 100 mm x 120 mm x 12 mm.

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