11/10/2025
MATERIAL MATTERS - Brooch Club
Exhibition at Windowsmith Gallery till 19/10/2025
Remnants of Making
I made this brooch to acknowledge generations of making and collecting of every day miniature objects, natural, manufactured and hand made. These are the remnants of making across time.
These unexpected items were found in three old jars with metal and Bakelite lids and collected over the last 100 years. A jar of buttons, a jar of shells and a tiny jar of wood screws. They surfaced while sorting through family possessions in the country. Each jar contained extra items, a hook and eye, a tiny threaded nut, a clock key. Useful items too precious to throw away, stored for a future possibility.
The names and uses of these treasured miniatures are slipping from our making vocabulary and grasp. This piece plays with ideas of manufacture and the handmade and echo’s the touch and memory of the lives of others now past.
📍 Windowsmiths Gallery, Potts Point
📅 10–19 October, 12–6pm daily
🔄 Closing Night & Pin Swap: Saturday 18 October, 6–8pm
