Day 7 of 9
Made to Break by Kathryn Wardill
https://radiantpavilion.com.au/listing/made-to-break
A series of wearable jewellery objects, handmade from glass and silver expand my 30—year research investigation into unique ways to combine two materials. The objects created in concept and design explore breaking, from a number of perspectives, including physically and conceptually.
Glass is a material known for breaking. This inherent concept forms the basis for this series of handmade jewellery objects which are made to be worn and made to break. The work will be created, documented, worn, and documented each day of 2024 Radiant Pavilion and shared via the artist’s self—published website www.wardill.com
The works exploit the physical properties of glass as an expressive medium, pulled into delicate threads, manipulated to create extreme fragility, a metaphor for moments in life.
Radiant Pavilion 2024
Naarm / Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial
14 — 22 September 2024
https://radiantpavilion.com.au/information
As the biggest biennial of its kind in the southern hemisphere, Radiant Pavilion brings a focus to the important contribution that contemporary jewellery and object practice makes to the creative and cultural sector. It is a celebration of diversity—in makers, in methods, in themes, and in materials.
This year’s program brings together more than 200 makers from Australia and internationally who have contributed to 60 events in and around Naarm/Melbourne, which is, itself, home to a thriving and generous community of artists, galleries and studios.
The Radiant Pavilion 2024 program elements include First Peoples and Indigenous storytelling, climate change, the environment, technology, health, connection and engagement; and are as varied as the makers themselves and the materials they have employed. The thread that runs through all events is the ability for contemporary jewellery and object practice to encourage reflection and stimulate discussion and debate on the world in which we live.