tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92105368588417688422024-03-05T20:51:38.307+11:00ordinari observationsmarvel at the small thingsInari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-40852904351010546302021-09-04T00:00:00.087+10:002021-09-13T10:48:34.898+10:00 Radiant Pavilion 2021: 'New Spring, Old Gods' – as part of 'IIb''<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtx-c5alF9gowyZxX-6ti8NW4WZy4sfyyWnkGaBhBbc9ZjDwA0IE1qFz8jkWHqyMkurhoeMtR8THC5TIb_gHpS2HR9fGEDEDYywbzFOicd9cFM6Z_xewr7kWoS5dItM7I8dk-tcWG8MLJR/s580/Inari_head_flowers1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtx-c5alF9gowyZxX-6ti8NW4WZy4sfyyWnkGaBhBbc9ZjDwA0IE1qFz8jkWHqyMkurhoeMtR8THC5TIb_gHpS2HR9fGEDEDYywbzFOicd9cFM6Z_xewr7kWoS5dItM7I8dk-tcWG8MLJR/s16000/Inari_head_flowers1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyK6HQIe5aiIzW7u2e_z05kJ24dDIHEfiYQNSwPliPEZRvR9ArpvKAnynm4XIDdIGoL8O5BhFwznsf0LlYvgH-qe8m3LUzJERVSgx5R-4mRl345mzMHGNMoa_dLHEI-SO86cXPMiTgpxo/s580/Dancing_3pics.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyK6HQIe5aiIzW7u2e_z05kJ24dDIHEfiYQNSwPliPEZRvR9ArpvKAnynm4XIDdIGoL8O5BhFwznsf0LlYvgH-qe8m3LUzJERVSgx5R-4mRl345mzMHGNMoa_dLHEI-SO86cXPMiTgpxo/s16000/Dancing_3pics.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Top: Inari Kiuru: <b>Seven sacrifices of flowers</b> from New Spring, Old Gods, 2020-21. </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Below: <b>White nights, come dancing!</b> </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>from New Spring, Old Gods </i></span>2020. <br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></i></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>All images in this post are by Inari Kiuru and Laura Kiuru ©2021 </i></span></i></span> <br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h1 style="text-align: left;"><b><i>New Spring, Old Gods</i></b> (2020-21) </h1><h4 style="text-align: left;"> </h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">This post will be updated daily during Radiant Pavilion 4-12 September '21.</h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h4><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>DAY 1</b></span></b></h3><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Saturday 4 September 2021 </b><br /></span></b></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Hello and thank you for coming in!</b> Thank you Radiant Pavilion for having us, and so much gratitude to Chloë for making this happen, with her team, during such an unusual and challenging time. You are amazing.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">This evolving presentation is an alternative (different, and curated to the online environment) to a physical exhibition of finished jewellery pieces. Updated daily with more material during the course of Radiant Pavilion, you'll discover here some background, development and a limited edition of finished pieces from my most recent series of necklaces, <i><b>New Spring, Old Gods</b></i>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnzpNBQTcrBZnbsqe8yc8mcSI4hTY4VSEgpVymm3fovHElcQbX_9hzvOmmIlirggxK7ikmr7Pz3l9B0WabaRMQ96I4Yf8CKTImRx2HzPsR5QOtua7g29Y6zc8ShyUZWijqaNCPsNikVVI/s579/SUN_cross.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img data-original-height="144" data-original-width="579" noborder="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnzpNBQTcrBZnbsqe8yc8mcSI4hTY4VSEgpVymm3fovHElcQbX_9hzvOmmIlirggxK7ikmr7Pz3l9B0WabaRMQ96I4Yf8CKTImRx2HzPsR5QOtua7g29Y6zc8ShyUZWijqaNCPsNikVVI/s16000/SUN_cross.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: normal;">While you're here, there's also a lot more to explore in the blog, from my past jewellery and object work to photography, drawings and thoughts about life – a telling record of someone looking for their way and purpose during the last 12 years. Please feel at home, and leave a comment if you're so inclined. </span><span style="font-size: normal;">You can see further material via my IG account <i><a href="http://www.instagram.com/ordinari_observer" target="_blank">@ordinari_observer</a></i></span><span style="font-size: normal;"> too. <br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: normal;">This post is of course also a part of <b><i>IIb, </i></b>a project born and re-born from discussions<b><i> </i></b>with my friend, fellow artist and PhD candidate Michaela Pegum. Our physical installations originally titled <b><i>II</i></b>
had to be postponed due to covid-19 restrictions in Victoria, so we
each present something different online. You can find more about the
project background in the previous post <a href="http://inarikiuru.blogspot.com/2021/09/coming-soon-new-spring-old-gods-as-part.html" target="_blank">here</a> and see Michaela's work for IIb via her Instagram account @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/michaela_pegum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">michaela_pegum</a>.<br /></span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;">*</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><i><b>About 'New Spring, Old Gods'<br /></b></i></p><p>For the first day, I'd like to share some thoughts on creating the work, and three of the first five necklaces made. </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTCN3tPdXC921Aw-3VJwqaxsDhKepRHHMkDTF2WzyCjnFPMwDY4OFq8OkSUpBpxT8FwZtjvYBJYpJItKWhLoRtzJdkuvI-DYnfoX1hQFij3cHk-xC2ic2pp4d5PwxncFgJrymeVojXoFpx/s693/Rite_2_s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTCN3tPdXC921Aw-3VJwqaxsDhKepRHHMkDTF2WzyCjnFPMwDY4OFq8OkSUpBpxT8FwZtjvYBJYpJItKWhLoRtzJdkuvI-DYnfoX1hQFij3cHk-xC2ic2pp4d5PwxncFgJrymeVojXoFpx/s16000/Rite_2_s.jpg" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Above: <b>The Rite</b>, 2020, plastic price tags, 330 x 4 mm<span style="font-size: small;">. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b>Artist statement / for the 'Schmuck 2021' exhibition catalogue</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b> </b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">'I made the first necklaces for <b><i>New Spring, Old Gods</i></b> at home in
Melbourne, during a long covid-19 lockdown while unable to access my
studio, tools or the usual materials. The pieces are fabricated entirely
from hundreds of plastic jewellery price tags I've accumulated, using
only their own locking mechanisms for construction. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As
I sorted the tags into sizes and colours, becoming familiar with the
ways they bend and behave, I soon forgot the small pieces were
industrial plastic and I a contemporary artist. Instead, as the first
patterns developed into more experimental designs, I became simply one
in a long and ancient chain of craftspeople who’ve used gathered,
seasonally available materials to create. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While
working, I strongly sensed my Finnish roots deep in nature, and the
forms grew evocative of our pre-Christian spring rites and ornaments
connected with death, rebirth, the forest and the Sun, depicting
delicate details of plants and flowers that return to life after a long
winter.'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>B<span style="font-weight: normal;">elow:</span></i><b><i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <b>Seven sacrifices of flowers</b>, 202</span></b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">0, detail.</span></b></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></b></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><b><i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAdoAqEhi8N22BUx0tG8L4PJcTOyoCeWk_3MfLs3zJElOd0lrTQbJHf8MIUZQErK5hm26PtDS49HxYdh-juiSnt_i-lTnJMJ5RSv_QYWpH63b_jTOUwHM_BM8AY4sxl8V0vgnFhfOW1ne/s580/Flower_detail_s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAdoAqEhi8N22BUx0tG8L4PJcTOyoCeWk_3MfLs3zJElOd0lrTQbJHf8MIUZQErK5hm26PtDS49HxYdh-juiSnt_i-lTnJMJ5RSv_QYWpH63b_jTOUwHM_BM8AY4sxl8V0vgnFhfOW1ne/s16000/Flower_detail_s.jpg" /></a></span></b></i></b></span></b></i></b></b></h4> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Below: </span></i><b><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Seven sacrifices of flowers</b>, 202</span></b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">0, </span></b></i></b>plastic price tags, 570 x 0 mm<span style="font-size: small;">. </span>This neckpiece consists of seven separate necklaces of different lengths and designs (see below). </span></i></b><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do you know what the circular symbol with a cross represents? </span></i></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZYqx9nB_sIheGgNmBmj3pNQkTWi-LtgYCUJh2xMAw9ZFpnAor8cj0clIhbriFGAOEocZWMT2U3cW8UfI0v693-UikYfhcGt1UPzD9qjbo2DLP074_HKhfUAGVPGgUFmcntTGHCRfnCXj/s1700/Flowernecklace_duo2_HR.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="1700" height="467" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZYqx9nB_sIheGgNmBmj3pNQkTWi-LtgYCUJh2xMAw9ZFpnAor8cj0clIhbriFGAOEocZWMT2U3cW8UfI0v693-UikYfhcGt1UPzD9qjbo2DLP074_HKhfUAGVPGgUFmcntTGHCRfnCXj/w665-h467/Flowernecklace_duo2_HR.jpg" width="665" /></a></i></b>Some design background: Wildflowers</b> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wildflowers
have always been an essential part of the Finnish spring and summer
celebrations. They are especially precious due to the very brief growing
season of the north. In the pre-Christian pagan rites and folk magic,
flowers were gathered from the meadows and forests, and used as
talismans to protect cattle and people from mischievous or evil spirits,
as well as included in sacrificial offerings together with food. In these
old traditions, <b>the flowers were woven into garlands and wreaths.</b><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglv04NRcxEDm24ZMqGqTaivNtGo37wbzwLGdkO1L9TiZuHnLW6H1_HYUvnMRa-N2EzsJMcS0t3OB_gYJD0PssQbapNlV5lC5QmmNawJzRF8kIlFj8j-Qcr6lDRD0-h0LMB-6ALexowf486/s870/Floral_single1_s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglv04NRcxEDm24ZMqGqTaivNtGo37wbzwLGdkO1L9TiZuHnLW6H1_HYUvnMRa-N2EzsJMcS0t3OB_gYJD0PssQbapNlV5lC5QmmNawJzRF8kIlFj8j-Qcr6lDRD0-h0LMB-6ALexowf486/s16000/Floral_single1_s.jpg" /></a> </i></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUbi_2lo_CW87YpYEZ1vswZy5ehWHS55r_yXwvpvHPO8aMA0eBvcNdiE7McU8I3FQ-t-I_BKRuT0Ki289BEkZ9-kTrhceBSGUdfnZEBCcpj39-AaHCxK7r66lmoVVPcs5CdPzKYC5ryzc/s580/Separate_flowers_F_s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUbi_2lo_CW87YpYEZ1vswZy5ehWHS55r_yXwvpvHPO8aMA0eBvcNdiE7McU8I3FQ-t-I_BKRuT0Ki289BEkZ9-kTrhceBSGUdfnZEBCcpj39-AaHCxK7r66lmoVVPcs5CdPzKYC5ryzc/s16000/Separate_flowers_F_s.jpg" /></a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h4></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wildflowers were also the most important traditional ingredient for spells – especially love spells and spells revealing one's romantic future, cast on Summer Solstice coinciding with Midsummer festivities. This tradition continues to present time in many parts of Finland.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Below: <b>The Rite</b>, 2020, plastic price tags, 330 x 4 mm</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>. </i><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVmWc66Lh0mYs2aGwnnI27-4rNf4zHTgvF40ku279HqkxboQ8YzQYuxjVHj8kAHAFjvfu3GzB3Jgz65mnJSjmNIbdA16P5my-3NyOvsBEJAWFxNDWbdPVWCu7nFQmuRcvnW5PsCLnL9bf/s580/Rite_table_s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVmWc66Lh0mYs2aGwnnI27-4rNf4zHTgvF40ku279HqkxboQ8YzQYuxjVHj8kAHAFjvfu3GzB3Jgz65mnJSjmNIbdA16P5my-3NyOvsBEJAWFxNDWbdPVWCu7nFQmuRcvnW5PsCLnL9bf/s16000/Rite_table_s.jpg" /></a></i></span></i></span> <br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZPwxzvuRiwBzot89cw2KeJSstO3H1c6bNPnQe1cJHIMIOut43xaDE-7w3iFDv26ZQemjmb12-zXKQM4Kk_kx-K10CW6j0GScld4pJGX3FeS0kuFA4KQKVUbkiVjDYXCuWTTrBbcnAYw1/s580/Vaari_rounded1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZPwxzvuRiwBzot89cw2KeJSstO3H1c6bNPnQe1cJHIMIOut43xaDE-7w3iFDv26ZQemjmb12-zXKQM4Kk_kx-K10CW6j0GScld4pJGX3FeS0kuFA4KQKVUbkiVjDYXCuWTTrBbcnAYw1/s16000/Vaari_rounded1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Above: </span></span></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><b>Toivo Timonen, farmer </b></span>c. 1990, Nurmes, Eastern Finland.<br /></span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: normal;">My 'Vaari' ('vaari' means grandfather) Toivo Timonen, my mother's father</span><span style="font-size: normal;">, was a man who lived for a century and farmed the same land </span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">for nearly 80 years</span>. He kept daily notes of rains and temperatures; worked with the lunar cycles, and cultivated a deep knowledge of plants, flowers, different natural energies and the way of the forest. In this picture Vaari </span><span style="font-size: normal;">is </span><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><span style="font-size: normal;">wearing
a
traditonal summer wreath and a garland, made by my sisters and I,
sitting on the old steps of the farmhouse on a summer's afternoon.</span></span> </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i> </i></span><br /><span style="font-size: normal;"><i> *</i></span></div><span style="font-size: normal;"><i>Two of the original works shown here, <b><i>Seven sacrifices of flowers</i></b> and <i><b>White nights, come dancing!</b></i>
(both 2020) will be exhibited in March at Schmuck 2021 (22) in Munich,
Germany. A series of five necklaces from the series is also currently a
part of Contemporary Wearables '21 in Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. </i></span><span style="font-size: normal;"><i>• All sales inquiries: <a href="http://www.galleryfunaki.com.au" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Funaki</a></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><i> </i></span></div><span style="font-size: normal;"><i> *</i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: normal;">More tomorrow, on Day 2 of <a href="http://www.radiantpavilion.com.au" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial 2021</a>. Hope to see you then!</span></h4><span style="font-size: normal;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Inari x</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: normal;"><br /></span></div></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">
SUN-DAY 2</h3><h2 style="text-align: left;"> 5 September '21</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Below: </i><i><b><i><b>While the butterflies still sleep</b>, </i></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">2020 and</span> </i><i><i><b>Sometimes cruel, the April sun</b>, </i> 2020.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b> </b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Fires in late March, around the Spring Solstice, are an ancient pagan European tradition, and still part of the Finnish customs on the West Coast. Their original purpose was to ward off evil spirits, together with preparing for fertile summer fields and a bountiful harvest in August. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">In the photographs you'll see contemporary early spring burning in April, in rural Southern Finland c. 2017, as part of land care (photos: <b>Laura Kiuru</b>). </div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0mObjsuzcF3oqU_IZ5e-xZvwzsZGjd8AOuAioQWrzjohnS0z6WBSplK5m-FkpGFuowE9YwMnqBeXX_BBPbjTDm-iAZhOteXJPeQr8wHUQkAmceGRFJj8Dv6jS_m-TLPxjNA4s3ngbv9kI/s2921/Kaski_all4b_s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2921" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0mObjsuzcF3oqU_IZ5e-xZvwzsZGjd8AOuAioQWrzjohnS0z6WBSplK5m-FkpGFuowE9YwMnqBeXX_BBPbjTDm-iAZhOteXJPeQr8wHUQkAmceGRFJj8Dv6jS_m-TLPxjNA4s3ngbv9kI/s16000/Kaski_all4b_s.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b> </b></i></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">FieldDAY 3</h3><h2 style="text-align: left;">Monday 6 September '21</h2><p style="text-align: left;"><i><b> </b></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Field</b>, 2020 </i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>(one of the first works in the New Spring, Old Gods series)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><i>Landscape photographs: <b>Inari Kiuru + Laura Kiuru</b></i></i></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><i><b> </b></i></i></span> <br /></i></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><i><b> </b></i></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><i><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xIux875uGg8tJ56hxX30AS7c-SAWWcE1DypQtsMVoJpD2eWkRNeYVJRxNr6luFAaXLDel5OwnJKRKWSLiJ2kpTQuSIIPOcoAMwHLeC8d5s3dqeKAiLNoQ6_s2-3oOB7jBrHyPgrDzlNF/s2363/Field+and+field_s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2363" data-original-width="580" height="2645" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xIux875uGg8tJ56hxX30AS7c-SAWWcE1DypQtsMVoJpD2eWkRNeYVJRxNr6luFAaXLDel5OwnJKRKWSLiJ2kpTQuSIIPOcoAMwHLeC8d5s3dqeKAiLNoQ6_s2-3oOB7jBrHyPgrDzlNF/w649-h2645/Field+and+field_s.jpg" width="649" /></a></div></b></i></i></span><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">DAY 4</h3><h2 style="text-align: left;"> Tuesday 7 September '21</h2><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Welcome, or welcome back! Thank you for visiting. - I'll alternate
between text and images here, posting more about old Finnish customs and
rites as we go. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">One of our oldest traditions, also written in the Finnish modern day constitution, is everyone's right to gather natural produce from the forests. Come August, berries are one of the most abundant seasonal wild harvests – important to Finns now; having made up a great part of the autumn's and winter's nutrition in the past generations' diets, and most certainly included in the sacrifical gifts to nature spirits and gods in our panteistic traditions up until the 1800s (and even later).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">One of my own earliest memories is being carried in a child-backpack by my father, in the woods as my parents were looking for blueberries and mushrooms. As dad wondered on, I remember noticing how my little gumboot slowly slipped off my foot, and quietly thudded, vanished into the soft undergrowth. I was so young I couldn't speak yet ... so I remained silent. The shoe was never found.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Image: <i><b>Mustikka (Blueberry)</b></i> from the <b><i>New Spring, Old Gods</i></b> series, sketch, 2021 / plastic price tags, paint.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM_fQkKOs9KqOndbt9tqnhaUvTYki3_3cqxfu_XTBMBVZLvENJXLgcbYFB_5Iwtacf6EtXB477LID4MjPhKgN27xpAZ-hOg0gpUHRwmj7REeJ-EOvbjG_HfW9pgS6BbEGCyPP0SJ8Wh2Ae/s2048/Mustikka_sketch1_s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2045" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM_fQkKOs9KqOndbt9tqnhaUvTYki3_3cqxfu_XTBMBVZLvENJXLgcbYFB_5Iwtacf6EtXB477LID4MjPhKgN27xpAZ-hOg0gpUHRwmj7REeJ-EOvbjG_HfW9pgS6BbEGCyPP0SJ8Wh2Ae/w640-h640/Mustikka_sketch1_s.jpg" width="640" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h2 style="text-align: left;"> </h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">DAY 5</h3><h2 style="text-align: left;">Wednesday 8 September '21</h2><div style="text-align: left;">Image: <i><b>Vanhan puun hiljaisuus (The silence of an old tree)</b></i> from the <b><i>New Spring, Old Gods</i></b> series, sketch, 2021 / plastic price tags, paint. <br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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a preliminary work with the same materials, testing the connections and anticipating the patterns to come.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPh5LfHegut5p_Tl675dDREhNGG8AVgEo3zMcUPXiBImo5LIGu9-ho8ph9CYrEib2qPi0lnpzIDFaMNWwBgzbhAhfkkEh_KAyU-QR3OcMRsrCkJMB_7zncDiV5inBPazzNb00lirvv5p6/s1322/Two_golden_necklaces1_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPh5LfHegut5p_Tl675dDREhNGG8AVgEo3zMcUPXiBImo5LIGu9-ho8ph9CYrEib2qPi0lnpzIDFaMNWwBgzbhAhfkkEh_KAyU-QR3OcMRsrCkJMB_7zncDiV5inBPazzNb00lirvv5p6/s16000/Two_golden_necklaces1_s.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">DAY 8</h3><h2 style="text-align: left;">Saturday 9 September '21</h2><i><b>The connetion</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;">These are some of the first works in the <i>New Spring, Old Gods</i> series. Made during the first long covid lockdown in Melbourne, winter 2020 at home (while we weren't allowed to go to our studios), from ingredients I had at hand here. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Left to my own devices, sorting and arranging these small pieces of industrial plastic - they are jewellery price tags - I was soon absorbed in the ancient activity of designing ornaments from ingredients available locally. This felt so comforting and empowering in an otherwise challenging and futile situation where everything suddenly changed, with no certainty about anything.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">While making, I sensed a strong connection, even a spiritual connection, with my Finnish ancestors. Vivid memories from childhood summers and all the time spent in nature flooded my waking hours and dreams. These pieces honour this heritage, going back thousands of years, in their motifs and atmosphere.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The working titles of these first necklaces were 'Blossom', 'Sun', 'Field' and 'Double Sun', remembering and celebrating our old pagan season rites of new life and harvests.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">You can also see one of the early free sketches at the end, and a Finnish wall hanging (ryijy, c. 1900, knotted natural dyed wool), depicting a traditional red-stained house, birch tree, a crane and a long flowing floral motifs on the sides. This textile has been on the wall of my grandfather's farm house for as long as we can remember, as a family. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhCyeZhoK1L8yBA6z9EW5UA22HGyZgxoB5svmPI3sVKtU_8kyA79aLTAezgESezLBE1nIujp-IiMU-OFMdVLTWyxrxjh3ox-FJ7LhYucmeKPaIJ6odog6nQgH1leUa_zWRUArNmdi3mPG/s4765/First_pieces_NSOG_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4765" data-original-width="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhCyeZhoK1L8yBA6z9EW5UA22HGyZgxoB5svmPI3sVKtU_8kyA79aLTAezgESezLBE1nIujp-IiMU-OFMdVLTWyxrxjh3ox-FJ7LhYucmeKPaIJ6odog6nQgH1leUa_zWRUArNmdi3mPG/s16000/First_pieces_NSOG_s.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlppScUd43EzH9S9RPSrfr3RzjSXblqNp4C3t0E3dY_wP0CBP0uish41dRQvDD2JWS66cuR32XHP0fNK12Nbmx0L1opUo0LHFPsACJmEL7G74Pcks-SlsOP8szXIctNJqGQelYkwCpj6lV/s2391/LongBerry_Ryijy1_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2391" data-original-width="590" height="2569" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlppScUd43EzH9S9RPSrfr3RzjSXblqNp4C3t0E3dY_wP0CBP0uish41dRQvDD2JWS66cuR32XHP0fNK12Nbmx0L1opUo0LHFPsACJmEL7G74Pcks-SlsOP8szXIctNJqGQelYkwCpj6lV/w634-h2569/LongBerry_Ryijy1_s.jpg" width="634" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">DAY 9, final day of Radiant Pavilion<br /></h3><h2 style="text-align: left;">Saturday 9 September '21</h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>White nights, come dancing!</b> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Neckpieces </i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>from New Spring, Old Gods </i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">2021 </span></i></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the final day of Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial 2021. The project of posting images and background to the New Spring, Old Gods series doesn't end here, but I'll update in a different pace. Thank you RadPav for having us on board!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The planned <a href="http://inarikiuru.blogspot.com/2021/09/coming-soon-new-spring-old-gods-as-part.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">physical exhibition</a> with Michaela Pegum postponed to 2022, this series will also keep evolving, together with photographing the pieces on body when the pandemic situation allows for working with people again.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Come back to visit now and then, and see my Instagram @ordinari_observer for more :)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks again for stopping by! <3</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photograph of the trees and water by ©Laura Kiuru. The image of the fire is c. 1955. Lohja Island, Southern Finland.<br /></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></i></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><br /></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihN0nadcVEtxhvIQ_nf52fX_lO5E1nwldcjsnegNuUH9X4uJ2OSZBBfhKxmh-jCN6rop6YMXy_PUVIUkPuy2cZTn95zmwjt3ta0YFapqXEYHHxQXYOyA5_h2m9uHK6kb6YmeKhN6G-vEdk/s6433/Dancing+pictures+plus2_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6433" data-original-width="489" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihN0nadcVEtxhvIQ_nf52fX_lO5E1nwldcjsnegNuUH9X4uJ2OSZBBfhKxmh-jCN6rop6YMXy_PUVIUkPuy2cZTn95zmwjt3ta0YFapqXEYHHxQXYOyA5_h2m9uHK6kb6YmeKhN6G-vEdk/s16000/Dancing+pictures+plus2_s.jpg" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /> </h2>Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-58612293474194972592021-09-01T11:22:00.024+10:002021-09-03T15:08:35.376+10:00COMING SATURDAY 4 SEPTEMBER '21: 'New Spring, Old Gods' as part of 'IIb' with Michaela Pegum – The Radiant Pavilion 2021 online edition<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPnZLzGADEgGN9Y5f0KDQ6DOWVZ6iEe15AmS_tlcNGrn7SjL-XbHD6mG2W_wcOczozV4RS0wGJq060o-1HEF09eezL4ZFrMsdjc-Ly0HV8ueEokWyiIJ71uzXmSUu2GGwQ982XjMwX6FIZ/s0/IIb_HERO_NEW_PegumKiuru.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-large-width="1200" data-original-height="1500" height="746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPnZLzGADEgGN9Y5f0KDQ6DOWVZ6iEe15AmS_tlcNGrn7SjL-XbHD6mG2W_wcOczozV4RS0wGJq060o-1HEF09eezL4ZFrMsdjc-Ly0HV8ueEokWyiIJ71uzXmSUu2GGwQ982XjMwX6FIZ/w597-h746/IIb_HERO_NEW_PegumKiuru.jpg" width="597" /></a></div><b> <br /></b><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Top</i><i>: Michaela Pegum, All is intimate II, 2021</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Bottom: Inari Kiuru: Necklaces from New Spring, Old Gods series, 2020-21. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Photos by the artists.</i><b><br /></b></div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>IIb </b>(online, coming soon / 4-17 September 2021<i>)</i></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Michaela Pegum & Inari Kiuru</b></i></h3><p>The idea to exhibit side by side, as two, grew from the artists’ shared interest in our relationships with the natural world. The physical exhibition ‘II’ now postponed, Michaela and Inari each present an individual selection of thoughts, research and work as ‘IIb’, curated for the online environment. </p><p>Michaela’s sculptural work is developed from her relationships with
natural, threshold landscapes. She explores the becoming between human
and non-human life forms, elements and atmospheres through the creation
of material languages that are liminal, suggestive and sensory. Michaela
will present the material explorations that led to her sculptural forms
via her IG account @michaela_pegum. <br /></p><p>
Inari’s <b><i>New Spring, Old Gods</i></b> necklaces honour the artist’s Finnish
heritage, depicting trees, flowers and old, nature-centered rites.
Composed during the pandemic, from limited ingredients, the series
especially celebrates a strong kinship discovered working in isolation: a
contemporary maker and her ancestors, together in spirit, weaving new
life from whatever the season offers.</p><p>• <br /></p><p><b><i><b>IIb is presented as</b> part of Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial, 4-12 September 2021. </i></b><i>See the full program at <a href="http://www.radiantpavilion.com.au">www.radiantpavilion.com.au</a></i></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><i><b>About the artists</b></i></p><p><b>Michaela Pegum</b> has a background in contemporary dance and is undertaking a PhD
in the school of art at RMIT through her practice led research project
Subtle bodies: corporeal and material becoming in threshold landscapes.
Her practice is an exploration of felt experience, garnered through the
deeply embodied relationships we form with the natural world, it spans
the realms of sculpture, wearable art and performance. She works in
highly explorative ways to develop material languages that are liminal,
suggestive and sensory, investigating the affective qualities, tones and
temporalities that constitute the fabric of relations between the
sensing being and their environment. </p><p><b>Inari Kiuru</b> is a Finnish–born multidisciplinary artist and graphic
designer, translating her native relationship with wilderness and
changing seasons into objects, images and words inspired by light,
clouds and atmospheres in urban environments. Known for her experimental
use of non–precious, industrial materials such as concrete and steel,
the core of Inari’s practice is revealing beauty within ordinary,
everyday things. Inari is represented by Funaki, Melbourne.</p><p><br /></p>Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-22288258395091881942021-05-04T13:23:00.009+10:002021-05-04T13:33:59.795+10:00Funaki guest posts on materiality 3: Concrete<p>And finally, here's my third offering in the guest post series for Funaki, last winter during the early days of the pandemic when the gallery was closed and we were looking for alternative ways to communicate and interact. I wrote about materials I use, know and love: enamel, steel and concrete. Here's concrete! </p><p>I was fortunate to discover this interesting character almost by accident. Some years ago, a bag from Bunnings was my leap of faith (yup, a panic solution) while planning a sculptural installation with no equipment to fabricate metal in a large scale. Concrete offered an alternative to work without heat or special tools, and allowed free experimentation without financial concerns. Soon, there was no return. </p><p>At first glance–feel–concrete is heavy and dense, cool to the touch. It carries associations of construction and the industrial; of urban structures and surfaces; of my immediate world and visual interests. It can be rough, or polished like smooth marble, and is a reliable protector of fragile materials, such as glass, embedded. - From an intimate distance, concrete also reveals its sensual and sensitive side. Toned with natural pigments, the shades resonate with things I keep returning to: The light at dusk and dawn; the changing skies, seasons and weather patterns … all somehow connected to our own human emotions in flux. This poetic nature of concrete keeps surprising and captivating me. </p><p>Finally, I think it’s great concrete is used by thousands of DIY enthusiasts, for all sorts of objects and ornaments. This gives it a democratic, joyous quality. Anyone can use concrete, giving such obvious satisfaction to those who may not otherwise be creatively engaged. It’s the material of inspiration and possibility! </p><p><i>Images (including the floor of Funaki on Crossley St): Inari Kiuru, 2015-2020 </i></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvwzpiwEyeGgbO9f3w1jYZDCzRdsBPJO5fH3AG-iZLD_ubE5bNqEEK0qHjsu7bfi5u8EZ_Yf6IFvZ5K-NY4eIkoo-zVkaN-P6LmwewmSdjdQysqKSpTNx8HYozFDbjx9OQGs-k2_-Fu8M/s1350/1_CONC_hand.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvwzpiwEyeGgbO9f3w1jYZDCzRdsBPJO5fH3AG-iZLD_ubE5bNqEEK0qHjsu7bfi5u8EZ_Yf6IFvZ5K-NY4eIkoo-zVkaN-P6LmwewmSdjdQysqKSpTNx8HYozFDbjx9OQGs-k2_-Fu8M/s400/1_CONC_hand.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBCMIk03bty1fQu1NQCt5CvXTDebJwI0EsiBDj3VaEuX09jdhKPQuztPIM04VCPVUZjq2DD1RbbaT87ZpdUHAq_Z_ejQMayk61SIH6KKtmPVZIXXoJNYNqEt1_40ItQOP0_bs-hK7tv8F_/s1350/2_CONC_Universe_brooch.jpg" style="display: block; 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Here's my second entry on materials I use and love (please also see the previous blog post about enamel). </p><p>Let’s talk about STEEL. I love steel. It’s a metal that’s been with me from the start, for practical and aesthetic reasons. </p><p>First, I love the applications of steel in our urban environment: The intricate metal structures and tall cranes at construction sites; huge diggers like strange animals; ships and sea containers, the battered back doors of trucks. I love the ordinariness of this material and the divinely beautiful way it surrenders to its environments, accepting scratches, stains, rust … the marks of time, never losing its integrity. </p><p>I can weld steel, making jewellery pieces and vessels structurally safe while subjected to high heat in the kiln for enamelling or colouring. Soldered seams will reflow and collapse in temperatures over 800 Celcius whereas welded connections (metal joined to itself with electricity) remain intact.
Anyone who works with steel also knows it can be temperamental as it rusts (maddeningly!) easily and is harder to cut and clean than precious metals. Sometimes its sharp edges make you bleed. But all is forgiven for its amazing scale of expression: I love the deep blues of heated mild steel, the chemical, snowflake-like zinc patterns on galvanized surfaces and the elegant grays they turn into when heated (although this process is toxic.). </p><p>I love the shine. precision and strength of stainless steel, as well as the warm rusted tones and quiet stories told by old, abandoned pieces. I love the way stained steel sometimes looks like silk, sometimes like a landscape–but always still like steel. </p><p><i>Images: Inari Kiuru 2008-2020, Mild and galvanized steel </i></p><p><i> </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbV7aU2fzqhBkUagRVjHlhGHjh3jUCFqG3UGj-Mr7jdMGKfUehDW5HJ9R7X44w2gHC6erMw86-pyIjgOR9rJjBqaNF3LVwcKbR8aMZ4GLwDIqG3VrTwD5cyRWON4Z7k0iHrRA8ZzEKxK2/s1350/1_STEEL_Butterfly_brooch.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbV7aU2fzqhBkUagRVjHlhGHjh3jUCFqG3UGj-Mr7jdMGKfUehDW5HJ9R7X44w2gHC6erMw86-pyIjgOR9rJjBqaNF3LVwcKbR8aMZ4GLwDIqG3VrTwD5cyRWON4Z7k0iHrRA8ZzEKxK2/s400/1_STEEL_Butterfly_brooch.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQE3IteKzSGn7IHjKemQA0pefbGEElv6U-NmnIC6U0TQ2nwczJ5meqFqRy7Yfeo2_HJdhPswpHlodInlPT3ptFS6w5JwiGW6_nyCUB589Q3jOWoa-vRT7oMF2EwBCaC0TFL45jjMnvOVzv/s1350/2_STEEL_Butterflies_closeup.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQE3IteKzSGn7IHjKemQA0pefbGEElv6U-NmnIC6U0TQ2nwczJ5meqFqRy7Yfeo2_HJdhPswpHlodInlPT3ptFS6w5JwiGW6_nyCUB589Q3jOWoa-vRT7oMF2EwBCaC0TFL45jjMnvOVzv/s400/2_STEEL_Butterflies_closeup.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUOqsdp-wQvhFfulsgiQaRdVOphyphenhyphen0xer-DWMrmNfefD8d42RuIU6aCwW3ZKegwdzB4Pak5hKSG7awp7q5tUBw_hM0lXwGSPME7qcbCePK7GojwfLGNWBrXL1b7RUlv-bKvQhCFexjP1CVS/s1350/3_STEEL_Yellow_crane_earrings.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUOqsdp-wQvhFfulsgiQaRdVOphyphenhyphen0xer-DWMrmNfefD8d42RuIU6aCwW3ZKegwdzB4Pak5hKSG7awp7q5tUBw_hM0lXwGSPME7qcbCePK7GojwfLGNWBrXL1b7RUlv-bKvQhCFexjP1CVS/s400/3_STEEL_Yellow_crane_earrings.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGHlOzpC2sqcvSWOFH5shRwDGYaU-6KifAzLdN1lnJm4Kb9jhMixmeQDPPg_EzGJpgVcU7iacEHNSjidy-CegYzWtH31JEO9leN13nBMPE6kvyx1HTeGa5KqCVDDp0a_h9ID1nRd7R6Q3/s1350/4_STEEL_Machine.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGHlOzpC2sqcvSWOFH5shRwDGYaU-6KifAzLdN1lnJm4Kb9jhMixmeQDPPg_EzGJpgVcU7iacEHNSjidy-CegYzWtH31JEO9leN13nBMPE6kvyx1HTeGa5KqCVDDp0a_h9ID1nRd7R6Q3/s400/4_STEEL_Machine.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaMrs9xR0JGj5fGX-XpKiII9nfxB9iL43OgQ34IpC5vbd9yQj75lrO3GlhFQc1C4pPOK1htprh2_Q5JaAFcNpP8fMuUCVO-l727yZmJDx_gFsr_8bE_rmPXfrjLbDMQFszi54YrjcmAIBv/s1350/5_STEEL+Nighthulls_earrings.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaMrs9xR0JGj5fGX-XpKiII9nfxB9iL43OgQ34IpC5vbd9yQj75lrO3GlhFQc1C4pPOK1htprh2_Q5JaAFcNpP8fMuUCVO-l727yZmJDx_gFsr_8bE_rmPXfrjLbDMQFszi54YrjcmAIBv/s400/5_STEEL+Nighthulls_earrings.jpg" /></a></div>
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I prepared three entries, each about a different material I use and love. Here are those posts, each as their own, starting with ENAMEL. </p><p>I thank my location stars for learning this art, as I studied silversmithing here in Melbourne at RMIT University. They, uniquely, have a long history of enamelling with masters such as Helen Aitken-Kuhnen and Debbie Sheezel having taught there prior to my own brilliant teacher, Dr Kirsten Haydon. </p><p>As patience and fine motor skills are needed in the traditional techniques, my beginnings were naturally full of tears–and this was just the teacher ;) However, a 2010 workshop with Prof. Elizabeth Turrell introducing liquid enamel (also referred to as industrial enamel, see below) was a turning point. The application of a fluid mix and drawing onto it allowed a freedom I’d craved, and eventually gave me enough confidence to keep working with the ultimately very satisfying powdered enamel. </p><p>The traditional vitreous (Latin ‘vitreum’ means glass) enamelling dates back to the 13th century BC. Coloured glass powders are carefully applied onto a base, usually metal, and fused by heat into a strong luminous surface. From the 19th century, enamel began to be used industrially: A liquid glass mix is fired in huge kilns to form a durable coating for everyday domestic wares such as our familiar bathtubs and fridge doors. It’s worth noting too that enamel paint (“cold enamel”) and liquid enamel are two very different things. </p><p>The images (IK 2010-19) show you samples of enamel on steel and copper: Shifted (earrings, pendant); liquid (samples, brooch, vessels), and decals (images in enamel). </p><p>For beautiful pieces in different styles, please also see the work of the artists mentioned in this post. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9-dGdJ1PsLQP4rGJmV_4nnbGP7NnPsUYt7OQbtqVwtHznuMhyphenhyphenriQaHkuHmf-njs6_G0waS96ZqozR_R3llY0WReaADx3LmYFIRe_SSpGLVf7SYX0ugQJHVSw64SvmPlGsw2JtoaCf7LC/s1350/1_ENAMEL_samplesF.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9-dGdJ1PsLQP4rGJmV_4nnbGP7NnPsUYt7OQbtqVwtHznuMhyphenhyphenriQaHkuHmf-njs6_G0waS96ZqozR_R3llY0WReaADx3LmYFIRe_SSpGLVf7SYX0ugQJHVSw64SvmPlGsw2JtoaCf7LC/s400/1_ENAMEL_samplesF.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-b0LTUDmwrZoGyJssVfJd2VV81fVKD6GthdjynpyF2iSYYp8iOI68h8V8qhLFD17YMCOmB5H1fcW83uAlY6vWGyJJv_lPneoohC3_cYxruvlfOZ0NwXAUKLvOKTltpxNK3TCZwrwQlDzX/s1350/2_ENAMEL_moth_earringsF.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-b0LTUDmwrZoGyJssVfJd2VV81fVKD6GthdjynpyF2iSYYp8iOI68h8V8qhLFD17YMCOmB5H1fcW83uAlY6vWGyJJv_lPneoohC3_cYxruvlfOZ0NwXAUKLvOKTltpxNK3TCZwrwQlDzX/s400/2_ENAMEL_moth_earringsF.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm25BrRwRpf39rZaLnF42sg24BnPVPmw8Aes0MYmDdSd4Z-CGzqA2PXSF0D1IEkajYzWfAW1cwNC3IyF-9Zw2nt5YpnYElXpc05xb3wyXYobapRZ0UGhJz3QB0GUmlAyWEMD644A90PPEa/s1350/3_ENAMEL_NewJersey_objects.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm25BrRwRpf39rZaLnF42sg24BnPVPmw8Aes0MYmDdSd4Z-CGzqA2PXSF0D1IEkajYzWfAW1cwNC3IyF-9Zw2nt5YpnYElXpc05xb3wyXYobapRZ0UGhJz3QB0GUmlAyWEMD644A90PPEa/s400/3_ENAMEL_NewJersey_objects.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReXDYhUz4d3oLGoKlqo47gFYa-D9EFbKDdAxftRO9eTYcLSJtl4cetJRMNSWFyXQd9vXDbB7Uvdi6sCRBtGAHfseblnDavNT7FYzJJjURGSthxil2vnHuOO1CgzO93H_8WjOK_7mBLjoI/s1350/4_ENAMEL_cube_closeup.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReXDYhUz4d3oLGoKlqo47gFYa-D9EFbKDdAxftRO9eTYcLSJtl4cetJRMNSWFyXQd9vXDbB7Uvdi6sCRBtGAHfseblnDavNT7FYzJJjURGSthxil2vnHuOO1CgzO93H_8WjOK_7mBLjoI/s400/4_ENAMEL_cube_closeup.jpg" /></a></div>
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Curated by Natasha Sutila, Gallery Funaki presents a survey of contemporary vessels by Australian and
international makers David Clarke, Sally Marsland, Robin Bold, Christina Schou Christensen,
Marian Hosking, Barbara Schrobenhauser, Lindy McSwan, David Bielander,
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As a prevailing form in craft tradition and daily
life, the vessel affirms itself as unparalleled in the consideration of
function, materiality and domestic ritual. A finely tuned relationship
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So happy and proud to be a participating artist. My vessel contemplates the rapid mutation observed in butterflies, sensitive indicator species, in the Fukushima area in the wake of the nuclear accident in 2011. It is presented with water in it, interacting with thin blades of steel. The form and function of the vessel are also a respectful nod to the old Japanese tradition of mizusashi, fresh water jars.</div>
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<i><b>'Heavy water (Fukushima butterflies)'</b></i></div>
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concrete, iron oxide, mild steel, pigments, iron filings, wax </div>
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<b><i>Blink</i></b><br />
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mild steel, found object, enamel, pigment, wax, human ashes<br />
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AVID Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand / 08 - 22 April 2017 <br />
<i>Raewyn Atkinson, Barry Clarke, Inari Kiuru, Elizabeth McClure, Lindy McSwan, Mark Mitchell, Masahiro Sasaki and Layla Walter</i><br />
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vessel objects worked in glass, metals and ceramics. Eight artists from
NZ, Australia and Japan have explored a range of ideas in their work for
this exhibition: the passing of time, feelings relating to connection
with place and the beauty and materiality associated with the medium
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<br />Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-64894784186706385892016-11-21T22:43:00.001+11:002016-11-21T22:45:39.014+11:00The Indoor Forest Project launch!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These three brooches from the <i><b>Night falls over Brunswick</b></i>-series were my entry to this year's <a href="http://galleryfunaki.com.au/exhibitions/2nd-mari-funaki-award-for-contemporary-jewellery/" target="_blank">Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery at Gallery Funaki</a>, Melbourne, Australia. From the top:</div>
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<b><i>Suburban moon, close and distant</i></b> (2016), concrete, mica, pigment, stainless steel pin</div>
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<i><b>A tree and the night's edge</b></i> (2016), concrete, glass fragments, pigment, paint, stainless steel pin</div>
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<b><i>The Universe sees us asleep</i></b> (2016), concrete, copper, enamel, glass, paint, stainless steel pin<br />
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Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-46733361857872746662016-09-29T17:17:00.000+10:002016-09-29T17:40:58.665+10:00'Vessel' exhibition at Bilk Gallery, Canberra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Holding onto light</i></b><br /> (2016)</div>
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One of my three symbolic vessel-objects at Bilk, contemplating light. You can find more images <br />
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Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-68155183841693528922016-09-29T17:08:00.000+10:002016-09-29T17:08:01.609+10:00Blue and orange earrings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Three pairs from the Industrial Lightscapes-series 2015-16, all in steel, paint and gold.</div>
Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-43360338133522947212015-12-16T12:33:00.002+11:002015-12-16T12:33:41.396+11:00Exciting things are happening!Dear Reader,<br />
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Please check in again later this week for a few updates of exciting recent news and events:<br />
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I'll post images from September exhibitions 'The Shining' in Brunswick and 'Go, said the bird' at 45 downstairs (part of the Radiant Pavilion and Craft Cubed-events); photos of some brand new earring work available at Gallery Funaki (yay!), and a substantial update of the Indoor Forest Project I'm doing with my studio community, Northcity4, during the coming months.<br />
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Hope to see you here again, welcome back!<br />
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Cheers x<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Image: 'Welders mask without eyes, for the blind love of steel' (2015) / wood, iron, stainless steel, paint</i></span><br />
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<br />Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-22179508359412662702015-07-16T15:53:00.004+10:002015-07-16T16:03:57.426+10:00Solstice – of darkness and light, images of workHere are some images of my work in the exhibition, a group of seven concrete and mixed media objects, titled <i>Dust from a distant sun</i>. Here's how I described it in our show media:<br />
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<i>This installation of cast concrete, iron-oxide pigment, clay, coral, leather, wax, aluminium and gold is a meditation on the changing lightscapes throughout our days, and on the heaviness of time irrevocably passing. Vast cloudy afternoons, starry nights, long forgotten mornings; once gone, never to return. The objects–containers, vessels, industrial-organic forms–stand seemingly together, grouped like planets or a constellation, yet each ultimately alone, perhaps carrying the same melancholy that contemplating the enormous universe sometimes evokes. Comforting, the warmth of the sun is always present, as light connecting the works and illuminating the gently rendered surfaces. </i><br />
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<b>Aurelia Yeomans<br />Inari Kiuru<br />Naoko Inuzuka</b></h4>
<i>A solstice marks the two brief moments during an astronomical year when day and night meet at their longest and shortest. This changing metaphorical relationship between dreaming and wakefulness, the conscious and the unconscious, and the natural cycles around and within us, is the focus of Solstice – <br />of darkness and light, an installation of contemporary jewellery, object and image.</i><br />
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June 23 - July 4 2015<br />
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000<br />
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A heartfelt thank you to everyone who saw our show, either in the gallery or through online images. Especially big thanks to our partners, friends, families, teachers and mentors whose support and help was invaluable in realising our first independent exhibition. More images of the work and gallery in the next posts!<b><i> </i></b>Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-75068201267668353502014-10-26T17:20:00.000+11:002015-07-16T17:50:45.807+10:00Winter neckpieceInari Kiuru, <b><i>Winter</i></b> (from <i>Winter Thoughts</i>-series) 2010-14<br />
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Stainless steel and brass safety pins, sterling silver and 9c gold catch, enamel, enamel paint, varnish.<br />
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<i>Winter is an interpretation of the artist’s native Northern European
urban landscape in late December. Tree branches dark and bare; old stone
buildings wet with rain, now newly covered with snow. And underneath
the cool surface, hundreds of lines follow and cross each other, bound
together, layer upon layer, perhaps with a little sting inside. Like
people, like cities, like history. <br />Season upon season ... </i>- Inari Kiuru <br />
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This piece was exhibited last spring (October 2014) as part of M.contemporary gallery's <i>Intimately Connected</i>-exhibition, curated by Michelle Paterson, in Woollahra, Sydney.<br />
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<i>"Jewellery art like many other forms of fine art has the intention to
express a sophisticated and well-developed concept or narrative through
its display and materials. Artists investigate different topics to
create individual pieces covering a broad spectrum of ideas and
motivations; a piece of contemporary jewellery has the ability to take
on the role of adornment with charisma, class and presence."</i> - Gallery exhibition media<br />
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The safetypins have been woven together by interlinking (lock &
secure). Liquid, industrial white enamel–powdered glass with a clay like
agent– has then been painted onto the structure, and the piece has been
fired with a big gas & oxygen torch to fuse the enamel onto the
steel at approximately 800 degrees Celcius. Enamel paint has been
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The very happy new owner of the piece, Dr Gene Sherman of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (Dr Sherman also opened the exhibition) with the artist who's gone quiet with joy. I'm wearing a brooch from the same series, fabricated similarly to the neckpiece.</div>
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<br />Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-86823015567322170462014-10-21T10:34:00.000+11:002014-10-21T10:34:52.878+11:00Our INDOOR FOREST - The last day to vote!<br />
<b>Dear friends, colleagues, community members,</b><br />
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Today is the last day to vote (voting closes 5pm)for our air-purifying indoor forest idea at Northcity4! We are at a 2nd place, and need to stay there to get funding!<br />
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Inspired by NASA's brilliant research on the air-cleansing qualities of common houseplants, our dream is to build a large, permanent air-purifying garden indoors, to work alongside our conventional air-filtering system. We want to become a leading creative community on how to use plants effectively in artist workshop settings!<br />
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Importantly, we want to make all the research findings and a documented process of construction available, free of charge, for other interested artists and the wider community, locally and internationally. So this project is for everyone.<br />
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This initiative, a "forest on wheels" was recently selected a top ten finalist in the Bank of Melbourne Local Project Competition/Environment-category. It has a very real chance in succeeding, as the two most voted for projects in each category receive funding. The competition is very tight though, and every single vote counts! <br />
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Here's how you can show your support:<br />
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You can vote directly at the competition website at http://webapps.bankofmelbourne.com.au/thelocalproject/default.aspx?project=201<br />
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Please note that your details WILL NOT be stored, or used for any other purpose than counting the votes during the competition.<br />
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If you'd like to help us further, please let any friends you think would be interested know!<br />
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Please don't hesitate to email Inari at indoorforest2014@gmail.com should you have any questions, or would like further info & updates. <br />
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Many thanks!<br />
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Inari Kiuru<br />
& Northcity4 artists<br />
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for your calendar now: <b>1-6 September 2015</b> will be THE days to be in
Melbourne, to enjoy, exhibit, explore and discuss contemporary jewellery and objects. Here is the announcement of Radiant Pavilion
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These are the last days to see an interesting, beautiful collection of contemporary jewellery from international and Australian, established and emerging, artists at Gallery Funaki, Melbourne: <a href="http://galleryfunaki.com.au/gf/" target="_blank"><br />The Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery exhibition.</a></div>
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I am over the moon and very humbled to be a part of this amazing show (insert muffled screams of happiness onto the serious text here!!!). Two of the brooches below from my <i>Evolution</i>-series, the larger steel piece and the brooch in the lower image, were selected to participate. They received a Judges' Commendation for emerging jeweller's work (more screams!!!). </div>
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A heartfelt thank you to the Gallery Director Katie Scott, Award Manager Chloe Powell, and the Judges Julie Ewington, Warwick Freeman, and Simon Cottrell. </div>
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PS. More images with details also here on<a href="http://klimt02.net/showcase/index.php?item_id=40382" target="_blank"> Klimt02.</a></div>
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<b>Brooches from the <i>Evolution</i>-series, 2013</b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Stainless steel, mild steel, crystals, iron, clay, patina, paint</span><br />
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Nearly two years have passed since my previous Season's Greetings post, in 2012. Time has flown, and there have been big changes in my life. The greatest of them all was welcoming our daughter into the world in June 2013. She is a beautiful (and very strong-willed, independent) mystery, and the past 15 months have been an intensive, wonderful road into the unknown, together as a family. Now we can all finally walk, so it's getting a bit easier.<br />
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I also finished my degree, Honours in Object Based Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in June 2013. In fact, I put the very final touches on the final pieces for assessment just six hours before my baby was born. Now that is a busy week, don't you think!<br />
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Now it's time to get back into making and creative communication. Spring is here, the world is turning as it should be, and life is an open book. I shall start posting regularly again, starting with pictures of work from the recent past, to bring the online record up to date.<br />
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I'll also be present in Instagram as ordinari_observer.<br />
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A big thank you for those who've been reading my blog regularly and who might find their way here again, or for the first time. It would be great if you could join me on this next part of the journey.<br />
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Here we go!<br />
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Inari x<br />
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<i>Images: </i><br />
To link the <a href="http://inarikiuru.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/seasons-greetings-2012.html" target="_blank">last post of 2012</a> and this first of 2014, here are some of the final images that grew from the industrial moth sketches (post below) into the<b><i> Saturnalia Industrialis</i></b>-series of brooches, models and giclee prints during 2012 and 2013. <br />
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<i>Words & Works from a World Away</i> exhibition unites the northern and southern hemispheres through the work of jewellery and object artists from Australia & Estonia. In each country statements were collected from ordinary members of the public about their knowledge and opinion of the other country. Each artist chose a statement about their country from someone on the other side of the world. The piece they made is a reaction to this statement.</div>
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Words spoken across the globe invite a personal study of our own culture and a reaction to other's perceptions of who we are. Each piece is a navigation of an outsider's perspective and the resulting realisations and revelations about our own identity.<br />
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The two cultures have been explored through unverified perceptions and understandings. The resulting objects are repositories of both cultural and personal narratives. They examine the global flow of information between two physically and culturally separate countries and provoke an international exploration of self."<br />
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<b><i>Mare’s boss in Melbourne was such a friendly bloke</i></b> (2013)<br />
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<br />Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-5462572305637637812013-03-01T15:51:00.000+11:002015-07-17T15:53:14.536+10:00A pair of pairs; earrings<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Inari Kiuru, <b><i>Dreamer's opals</i></b> (2012) Mild steel, galvanised steel, <br />
synthetic opal, 18ct gold. Created for Part B's exhbition <b><i>Oh Opal!</i></b> <br />
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<br />Inari K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02883428967302671201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9210536858841768842.post-12167622981303938712012-12-15T01:42:00.001+11:002012-12-15T01:44:22.678+11:00Season's Greetings 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear Reader,</div>
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Thank you for the year past, and wishing you a relaxed and joyful festive season.</div>
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Looking forward to new adventures in 2013, so many exciting things lie ahead.</div>
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These moths, my initial visual sketches for this year's jewellery project, are a glimpse of my recent work contemplating the rapid evolution of sensitive species around us, through images and objects. Two cases intrigued me into further research: The Peppered Moth (<i>Biston Betularia</i>) darkened quickly in response to the coal darkened surfaces of the Industrial Revolution and then lightened back again when the fallout became better controlled; in Fukushima, generations of butterflies <br />already show strange mutations. <br />
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More soon – in words and pictures.</div>
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Take care and chat soon!</div>
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x Inari (hoping to be immersed in the Indian Ocean by the time you read this : )</div>
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Pictures of new work coming soon...<br />
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