Past - Present - Future - Bury, Greater Manchester, UK - Until 11-5-2024

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Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
Moss Street, Bury
BL9 0DR


Past - Present - Future

Until 11th May 2024

A project managed and curated by Mark Mcleish

The ambition for this exhibition is to showcase a holistic and identified concern for sustainability within the field of art jewellery. I wanted this to push past the imposed trigger terminology that influence how we look and talk about the subject of sustainability and go to the maker with a set of valued questions. This will be evident within the 60 works that demonstrate sustainable action within making and material through an international voice.

'How can jewellery challenge and contribute to the language of sustainability?' 'What are the conversations about sustainably triggered by the jewels we make?' 'Where are the questions in our practice about sustainability? And how do they have a connected relationship with the making, methods and materials we use?'

Three works are exhibited from each of the 20 selected Precious Collective members. One each for the categories Past, Present and Future.

The categories:
Past: a work that is made from recycled, found or reused existing materials. (this piece is an existing work and is from any time in the makers life)

Present: a work that identifies with the makers current ideas of sustainability within their practice. This could be conversations around ethical and greener making, the sourcing of materials, both, or something else.

Future: a new work that has been made especially for the show that will biodegrade, is low impact or return to the earth ...

The exhibition design awakens the unseen, the forgotten, the discarded and the behind the scenes traces in materiality from the museum’s collection. Creating a spirited archive of an archive of a history of touch, this residual energy helps to narrate nonverbally the charge of context for the exhibitions focus.

Precious Collective is ...
A celebration of Art Jewellery; showcasing this art form to new audiences.
The building of a community through networking and creating dialogue between makers and countries.
Support and sharing of ideas and knowledge.
Offering opportunities to makers at all stages of a jewellery career and as a result, creating opportunities that may not normally be financially viable or even possible on a personal level.
In order for Precious to grow and continue to flourish it is intended that Precious should be agile, fluid, dynamic, energetic, open minded and flexible.

Exhibiting members: Annika Ingelaere, Bernadotte Daly, Brenda Schweder, Carolina Apolonia, Ekaterina Korzh, Elizabth Bone, Elvira Cibotti, Heather Blake, Jane Wood, Juan Riusech, Lena Echelle, Lucy Spink, Lynne Speake, Maria Hammond, Melissa Hampson Smith, Paula Isola, Rachael Colley,
Victoria King, Wiebke Pandikow, Mark Mcleish.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday: 10:00 - 17:00 Closed Mondays, Sundays and Bank holidays.

Admission: Free

https://buryartmuseum.co.uk/Temporary-E ... ons-Artbox