26/06/09

26/06/09 - A glasses lens from an old pair of glasses, bought 925 silver chain and 925 silver wire

25/06/09

 25/06/09 - A plastic horse from a christmas cracker, Rubber used in the building industry and 925 silver

24/06/09

24/06/09 - "$10 Silver" - Bank plastic change bag, approx $10 worth of 925 silver and stainless steel

a brief interruption

More brooches coming soon I promise! 

In the mean time you will just have to cope with my little bit of excitement (jumping up and down on the couch excited) for a Saturday morning. You know its going to be a good day when you open up your e-mail and what should be waiting very patiently to be perused at great length, but my beloved Klimt02 newsletter (yes, I am a complete nerd). As I scrolled through the list of tasty treats, I came upon the Studio 20/17 Winter Brooches Exhibition (which they had asked me to write very briefly about my view on the roll of the 'Brooch' in contemporary society, oh and to 'keep it light'). Needless to say the build up of anticipation while waiting those few minutes for the link to load (damn internet capping) was well worth it. I took my time inspecting the few images of the represented artists, just to savor the moment before getting to the bottom of the page. There it was in all its glory, my little piece of writing (NB. this was my first piece of commissioned writing, so surely Im allowed a little bit of self love?!) with my name attached to the end; Zoe Brand (Contemporary Jeweller, Writer).  Well to tell you the truth, I'm not sure I would actually call myself either of those things, but I guess it doesn't hurt to occasionally talk yourself up. ha! 

So please feel free to have a look see (Click Here) and/or come and visit me at work (Studio 20/17) on Sunday the 28th to view excellent Winter Brooch show! 

23/06/09

23/06/09 - Given and Collect Material (Aluminum Squares (given by a friend who worked in a commercial curtain factory)) & bought gold plated cameo brooch back/pins

22/06/09

22/06/09 - 'brooch' drawn onto shirt with a piece of chalk

21/06/09

21/06/09 - "HUGE RANGE, GREAT PRICES' - Collected Material (Prouds - The Jewellers Sale Catalogue), Binding wire and Stainless Steel.

20/06/09

20/06/09 - DYMO tape

19/06/09

19/06/09 - Found Object (one of the many discarded/crushed/rusted bottle tops I have a collected along the way) and a bought finding.

18/06/09

18/06/09 - 'SOLD' - (found 'sale' sign from my place of employment) with a magnet and steel disk as fastening.  

17/06/09

17/06/09 - Reclaimed Material ( Plastic washers that come between magnets (the super super strong ones)) and Stainless Steel

16/06/09

16/06/09 - 'Bang Bang' - Found Object (fake grass) and Stainless Steel

15/06/09

15/06/09 - Found Object (Cap Gun Cartridges, what do you suppose happened to the other rounds?) and Stainless Steel.

14/06/09

14/06/09 - Found Material (some sort of poly/rubber used in the building industry) and one side of the Velcro machine.  

13/06/09

13/06/09 - Taken Material (Plastic leaf 'taken' from the bath room at GAFFA gallery on the day I moved out of the studios) and Stainless Steel 

12/06/09

12/06/09 - Reclaimed Material (a scrap of Marimekko fabric) and Stainless Steel

11/06/09

11/06/09 - Dodgy 'Scotch Bright' bought from Aldi fashioned into a speech bubble and Stainless Steel 

10/06/09

10/06/09 - Found Material (stiff and meshlike fabric, previously used to wrap a present I once received) and Stainless Steel 

09/06/09

09/06/09 - 'Annies Shoes' - Shoelace cut from a pair of very expensive shoes (given freely by Annie who runs a shoe shop across the way from my place of work) and Stainless Steel. 

08/06/09

08/06/09 - Found Object (plastic bubble blower) and Stainless Steel 

07/06/09

07/06/09 - Found Material (polypropylene 'orange' fruit bag) and bought finding 

06/06/09

  

06/06/09 - 'Fresh & Fruity' - Word cut from a Birthday Card (given by my parents, of an artwork by Robert Mcpherson) and Stainless Steel 

05/06/09

  05/06/09 - Found Object (plastic press studs) and Stainless Steel

04/06/09

04/06/09 - Found material (plastic EFTPOS rolls from a standard Commonwealth Bank Retail EFTPOS machine), stainless steel wire

03/06/09

03/06/09 - Stainless steel wire

002

002 - 'Joan's Balls' - Found object (clear plastic spheres), twine, bought findings

365 Brooches

01/06/09 - Found material (rusted metal) & stainless steel

Day one of my new project - 365 Brooches. 

Inspired by a few crafty people I've decided to produce my own '365 project', as you may have guessed, the outcome will be a brooch a day for one year! I am yet to decide if I will place some restrictions on the project i.e. only make brooches out of red materials for a week or just make it a free for all, either way this will be a full-on project. I'm pretty excited, this is going to be one huge challenge and it's really going test my staying power. 

I will probably create yet another blog to document the progress and post some images every few days, so check back to see how it all starts to ebb and flow.