I completed my BA, majoring in Contemporary Jewellery at Whitireia NZ in 2018. My work revolves around environmental issues and spiritual beliefs such as impermanence and non-attachment. During the past few years I have focused on making burnt wood jewellery pieces. Being able to transform the destructive power of fire into a force of positive transformation is what inspired me; that beauty and preciousness can be found in seemingly adverse conditions. Currently I am working with paper as a material to express ephemerality.
Through participation in HS6 and my mentorship with Manuel Vilhena, I want to deepen my conceptual development, diversify my skills, and free my approach to jewellery making.
Nina van Duijnhoven‘s posts:
Daemons and Geniuses
For the Nelson CHAINReaction show I played around with several ideas but I wasn’t happy … they were just not right, they were lacking…. Lacking what I didn’t know, I couldn’t put my finger on it... they were just a bit meh… a bit average, contrived… I didn’t feel good...
Te Auaha Show
Our first exhibition at Te Auaha was about showing our process. My process is doing, making, and generally quite a lot of it. I don’t draw, I don’t spend a lot time thinking prior to making. I sit down and just start… doing something…and from that something little...
Break Down
In 2001, British artist Michael Landy addressed excess consumerism and waste, by destroying all his possessions in an art project called “Break Down”. In the 3 years leading up to this event, every single one of his 7227 possessions was carefully classified and...
The Conversation
Peter Deckers has given us a range of performative exercises to help us get out of our habitual working patterns. One of these exercises is to talk, shout, whisper or make sounds to your object, and see what response this creates in you or your object. What is your...
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