Artist Name: Justine Austen
County: Australia
Artist Statement/ Bio:
Justine Austen is both a jeweller and miniature sculpture artist. She is “fascinated with the way people communicate using body adornment and the identity they can create for themselves through a piece of jewellery”. Using precious metals, pearls, pyrite, jet, onyx, crystals and beads, Austen’s pieces are striking and individual in material and form. “I particularly enjoy the way each piece develops new meanings, other than those I have attached, through the wearer and the viewer of the piece once it has left my hands.” Over her years of making, Austen has explored the “symbolism and emotional attachment people give to jewellery… investing in her work a sense of history, a story, a hidden aspect that can be discovered.”
Image 1: The jeweller and her assistant Johnny Cash at the bench.
Image 2: Little Ed, named after friend and artist Ed Koumans, keeps watch over the bench.
Image 3: Sketches of wolpertinger and monsters.
Image 4: Oke, this monster causes the eerie sound of tap, tap, tapping on windows when his horns touch the glass. Sterling silver, moonstone, hematite, bone. 54mm H x 70mm W x 26mm D,
Justine Austen 09/05/2010
More info about Justine
http://www.kickarts.org.au/about.html
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