The Darkness Of Fairy Tales Exhibition

A narrative contemporary jewellery exhibition on the theme of The
Darkness of Fairy Tales, with work from Glasgows leading jewellers,
launches tommorrow, 1st August 10-6pm Che Camille, 6th Floor Argyll
Arcade, Buchanan Street, Glasgow.

Hope to see you there!!

Exhibition Postcard

Hi all, with under one week to go before the exhibition launch here is a climpse at the Darkness of Fairy Tales postcards. They are glossy and will be displayed in Che Camille! Lucky for all who can't make it as it gives s peek into the other designers work! August 1st 10-6pm Che Camille, Glasgow. Hope you can make it!

Well on Monday I handed in my finished pieces for The Darkness of Fairy Tales exhibition at Che Camille in Glasgow. I am really pleased with how the show piece has turned out. It probably doesn’t have as many tiles on it that I would like- due to trying to keep the cost down but do to that it is very wearable and surprisingly light in weight. As I had been using antique versions of the Beauty and the Beast story and ageing the paper I was then stitching onto, I decided to also age the chains I was using by oxidising the silver with liver of sulphur. It has created a great variety of greys, charcoals and blacks within the chain which I feel needed to be done as the original shiny silver just did not work. As I still don’t want to give away the piece until the exhibition launches on the 1st August, I have included some of my sketches of the design.

Exhibition Dates Ammended

The Darkness of Fairy Tales exhibition at Che Camille in Glasgow has been moved from the 30th July Thursday PM to the Saturday 1st August AM 2009. This is due to a double booking of the venue with Belstaff as they are having a launch night. This actually works better as its during the busiest day for Che Camille so we hope to get plenty of people traffic, there is also going to be a Private Viewing of the work on the following Thursday 6th August 2009, which will allow a quieter time to really check out the Jewellery pieces, try pieces on as well as all the other amazing designs and fashion pieces found at Che Camille!

Fairy Tales- Beauty and The Beast

Just a little update on my ideas for the Che Camille Fairy Tales exhibition. As my work is pretty much always some form of graphic image and my chosen fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast- i have decided to used the text of vintage versions of the book- hand stitching important words and the sandwiching between the perspex. I feel the aged paper and the pristine perspex create an interesting contrast. I'm trying to stick with the moral behind Beauty and the Beast- that beauty is in the eye of the beholder- and only through being good and true in heart people will see past exterior aesthetics and appreciated the real you. Therefore I have been focused on quotes from the story such as the curse placed upon the beast,
“This will bloom until your twenty-first year. If you learn to love another and earn that person’s love in return before the last petal falls, the spell will be broken. If not, you will remain a Beast for ever.”
Here's a photo of work in progress for the smaller pieces which will be on sale throughout the exhibition at Che Camille. The show piece is more elaborate covering the moral from start to finish with the rose image being influential... but you’ll have to wait until the exhibition to see it!!