Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

'!'he Couri er Mail 19 pr il 1977 NEOKl,ACE or silver, gold, Ivory and leather by Catherine Mann-' helm admired by Sus Papas, or Dutton Park, at the Queensland Al'L Gallery ye. terday. The gallery is featuring a display or British Jewellery. "New look" iewellery A J;;WELLERY display by 10 of Britain's top creative jewellers opened in the Queensland Art Gallery yesterday, H Includes more limn 80 plecM designed during the !as' scrcn Ienrs. IL will cont lnue unUI itny 6. The work leuturts new creatll•e designs which dJstorL the traditional approach to Jewellery. Materials used Include rold, •liver, rnlllll, a.r- yllcs, hemp and collon. The)' hnl'C been CO!ll· lll11cd lo creutr clt06en optical effects by 11.1t11g dlffrrent colors nnd tex– tures. The exlllbltlon, organ– lsrd br the Crofts Adr l– Comm!Uee or Lon– and Ute British Counctl, Will tour AUSLl'ftl.' • Jin. J ewellers Include Caro· !me Broadltend. Susanna Heron , Catherine Mun– n It e I m , Roger Morris. , Dal'ld Poston and Eric Spiller. THE ARTS Elega11ce of getns TIME was wh(•n th e word "j1•wl'llery" automatically brought lo mind diamonds or ol her pn•r ious or scmi-prcl'ious s f.ones set in elegantly des igned g11ld or pi: 1 it mn or :,;ilnr fili gree or chai n– work. J eweller~· was essen– tially snmct h l11s lo be worn for the clcgnnl nrlornment or the p~rson - ror Ute most pnrt. 1h r remote person. thou~h noL n.11 111:iles c11sctnmf'd u,.c use - without undue dlsplR)', The mos! sought 11ft r pieces were. in fac t. 1 hose tlrnl. die! 1101 flnu11l their prPscnc(". \Vas not n 11 11ch -bc-rlnged h nd r - snrdcd n.s so,nct hin . like :1 p u b I I c ncknowlcrii:!– e111enl, of the wcnrcr·s bnd taste'! O\ 1 Cr th" year~. 11 1·l111n– li.y" j cwt•llcry ht•gan lo a p11ral - rinJ;~, for ex .. am1l1C:. that exhlhltt•d the ap1,e1 ranf'r, U 11ol the fun ction, of kruu·klc-r1ui. - tcrs. 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