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Using discarded plastic bags, Ireland’s Lesley Frew transforms a material that threatens to clog our landfills by layering, heat bonding, cutting, folding and stitching the bags into a material she can manipulate. The first necklace pictured here is my favorite. If she continues with the idea and color palette in that necklace her work will shift from fun and funky to sophisticated. I look forward to seeing more from this young designer/maker.
Knot Necklace
Honeycomb Knot Necklace
Sculptural Brooch
Ring
Necklace
Lesley Frew’s website
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I couldn’t find much information about Zhao Li, a Chinese artist living in Belgium, but the collection of jewelry she created pushing medical grade plastic through lace reminded me of my experiment pushing polymer through metal back in early 2008.
Pendants, Earrings and Ring,
textile, medical grade plastic, sterling silver
What is ‘medical grade plastic’? Hmm. . .I wonder how she does it?
Notice the more deliberate patterning of the plastic and lace on the eerily beautiful and delicate insects she’s conjured up and brought to life.
Insect Brooches: textile, medical grade plastic, sterling silver
Earlier work includes the ring below, made of melted plastic shopping bags – see more early work here. And more images here.
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Beautiful, don’t you think? After you look at the images, please read why I am in awe of 26 year old Florie Salnot. She’s one to watch.
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After traditional jewelry training in Japan, Jiro Kamata continued his studies at Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Munich, where he began to experiment with different materials, including camera lenses.
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Jillian Palone‘s website refers to her as a resin and metal artist, but the Kansas native also uses paperclay, rubber and wood, manipulating the surfaces of the wearable art forms by carving quirky patterns and textures and saturating them with color.
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