ARTWORK DETAILS

Paige Edwards
Mourning Jewellery Sculpture and Textiles
10 constructed jewellery items in flesh-coloured, textile-lined boxes on pink satin and hair sewn 'comfort blanket'.

ARTIST STATEMENT

This work relates to the loss of my grandmother, and my companions of many years - my horse and dog. As a homage to them I used objects and parts associated with and of them: grandma's jewellery, my horse's hair, and flowers I dried that were given to me on the death of my dog. Inspired by Victorian mourning jewellery I assembled elements of them together into boxes I lined with flesh-coloured fabrics as new jewellery mementos. I combined more flesh-coloured fabric and horsehair into a surface they could be displayed on in a symbolic circle evoking forever remembered and as a symbolic comfort blanket.

ARTWORK PROCESS

Horse hair, family jewellery, dried flowers, jewellery boxes, textiles assembled together.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Paige Edwards

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