Rings @ BILK Gallery, Canberra.

For all you jet setters out there I have some work in the forthcoming exhibition at BILK in Canberra. Opening is on Friday - be there!

Organic Geometry - Preview

Here we are then, some images from my new show. More reclaimed porcelain, beach pebbles and glass plus I've also had some fun with square step-cut synthetic corundum, that's man made sapphire and ruby.

Organic Geometry

We'd like to extend an invitation to everyone for Marcus' exhibition "Organic geometry", a new collection of contemporary rings at oneofftwo. The opening is on Easter Sunday afternoon from 2.30. Come along and enjoy a drink or two.
We're really pleased that Linus and Liam, two terrific jazz musicians will be there to bang out some great tunes.
The show will continue through April, closing on the 29th - if you can't make the opening we'd still love to see you.

Enameling Classes

Hello everyone,

with the days getting a bit colder I thought it might be a nice idea to fire up the kiln and run a weekly enameling/jewellery workshop. We'll offer two classes both on Tuesdays - one in the morning 9.30 to 12.30 and an evening class 6.00 to 9.00 and each running for 10 weeks.

Up to 5 participants in each of the classes will be shown the formative skills of enameling and gold and silversmithing with the goal of producing individually designed simple pieces of jewellery. Novices are welcome. For those participants with more experience there will be the opportunity to produce more complex work.

Please email us on mail@oneofftwo.com.au for further information.

Hope you can make it.

Dore

Summer Show opens on Sunday 30 October

Dore and I are really looking forward to this one, we have some brilliant, beautiful jewellery lovingly made by talented artists from around Australia and also Svenja John aus Germany, with her intriguingly fabricated polycarbonate bangles and brooches.

We have a new lighting system to install, LEDs no less, so come along and be surprised!

Hey, we were on Postcards

If you missed us on channel Nine's Postcards on the 25th September, which we did ourselves because it only shows in Melbourne you'll be able to watch it online here: http://www.visitvictoria.com/postcards?bctid=1186064058001&epic=32
Thanks to Karly McCaskill from East Gippsland Marketing for suggesting us to Visit Victoria who put the show together with channel Nine.

Fractured View @ BILK

'Fractured View' is a progression of my 'Chaos and Order' exhibition and is shown at BILK in Canberra at the moment (23rd July - 19th Aug) The set up looks great. Thanks Helen and Tanja! So different to how I would have set it up.
I was lucky enough for the NGA to buy one of my pieces, so if you can't make it to the show, the pendant will be on display from the end of August onwards.
Here are a few pics of some of the new pieces, that are shown with the work of the 'Chaos and Order' exhibition.

For Your Ears Only - Easter 2011

Dore and I were very happy to have pleasant weather and a great turn out to our exhibition of earrings at oneofftwo. It was a real pleasure to show other Artists beautiful jewellery for the first time. All were appreciated by our visitors. It was a great day made truly special with the fantastic jazz guitar played by Trevor Jones - a recent arrival to East Gippsland from Melbourne, who was accompanied on piano by our son, Linus.

Chaos and Order

This is the work and artist statement for my current exhibition showing at Anita Traverso Gallery in Richmond at 7 Albert St. The real thing is even better so go and have a look!.You have until Christmas

When people say it’s a crazy world, they’re not kidding. Think about it: one minute you’ve nailed the order of things, and you see the sophisticated symmetry, the tidy arrangements that reassure you of structure, that all is well. The next moment, a curve ball hurtles into your vision and chaos reigns. Nature is the ultimate regulator and simultaneously the anarchist throwing everything into turmoil, the magician of pandemonium. It’s impossible to separate the two, even though I initially tried as I approached this theme. I thought I would create separate pieces, some representing the human effort that inevitably falls into a state of chaos and others that signify nature’s ability to effortlessly create ordered perfection. It didn’t take me long to realise that my approach was flawed; it’s impossible to separate the two because chaos and order are symbiotic. I stumbled upon this discovery pretty quickly. Each piece in this collection is a miniature world that translates the concepts of chaos and order into metal, enamel and gemstones. I hope you enjoy the journey.

Metung Video

For those of you that have no idea what a beautiful place Metung is, please jump on the link and have a look at this video that was made to promote the village and surrounds.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=118829871490035

Tea Wares, Jam Factory group exhibition

Here's a slide show of the work I made recently for "Tea Wares", currently showing at the Jam Factory craft centre in Adelaide. It is a group of 13 silver teaspoons that I had a lot of fun making and after a few name changes I finally settled on:

A dozen different silver teaspoon. (sic) - 1. Nordic, 2.Iconic, 3. Ironic, 4. Sardonic, 5. Cyclonic, 6.Pacific, 7. Electric, 8. Ascetic, 9. Eclectic, 10. Teutonic, 11. Sub-sonic, 12. Comic

Well, I had to come up with something to explain the almost schizophrenic variety of the spoons.

Enameling workshops

It was always our intention when we were designing our studio that we would be able to conduct small workshops and classes in the various aspects of jewellery making and now that we at last have a functioning toilet, we are both very excited to now be able to do just that.

We are going to kick off with two cloisonne enamel workshops to be held in July, we couldn't decide whether to hold them during or after the school holidays so we have decided to do both.

Dore was also very keen that the workshops are held for 4 hours each day so that the participants do not lose their powers of concentration and up the chances of enameling accidents. The pleasant benefit of this is that any visiting participants will have nigh on half a day to do any of the many lovely things in the area. These include, bush and beach walking, swimming (brrrr), mountain bike or road riding, sailing, eating and wineries, even surfing and skiing! Any locals can go home and surf the couch.

We'll be able to conduct the workshops for 6 people in each and as the workshops will be an introduction to enameling participants won't need to have had any previous experience with enamel. Although as with any art practice a little patience goes a long way!

Workshop 1 Mon 5th - Fri 9th July
Workshop 2 Mon 12th - Fri 16th July

Workshops will run from 9am to 1pm each day and will cover the following

Introduction to enameling, metal preparation using requisite gold smithing techniques, design and use of colour, cloisonne enamel preparation and finishing, kiln use and safety.

Cost will be $440 (50% deposit payable 4 weeks in advance) and will cover tuition, all materials ie fine silver and enamels for one pendant. Those participants who are fast workers can produce more than one piece at extra cost of materials.
Morning tea/coffee/bickies are also included.

For further information please contact us on 5156 3270 or by email at our address top right

For accommodation in the area check out the links on the right

No longer a channel setting virgin!

Recently a client came to oneofftwo with a handful of grandmothers old rings wanting them made into a couple of new rings set with all of the stones, well I managed to use twenty of them. It was her suggestion to channel set the stones, I didn't think of doing the ring that way simply because I was a channel setting virgin. I'm really pleased we went down that road and she was very happy with the result too.

Cool Jewels Hot Jazz

Easter Sunday afternoon went off with a bang at oneofftwo with a lot of people enjoying our new work to the hot sounds of Duo 2 Go filling our studio. So mark your calenders as this will become an annual event, even bigger and better next year.

Opening Seldom Seen in Buchan

Here we are at last, finally got hold of some photos from the Seldom Seen project opening that we were involved with (as mentors) at Buchan up in the hills near Snowy River National Park. It was a glorious evening with quite a few appreciative locals in attendance as well as some blow-ins that made the trip - we even had a photo journalist from Australian Geographic with us as he was actually doing a story on the real Seldom Seen!
We both had a very enjoyable time with this multifaceted project, it was a lot of hard work but everything happened smoothly (well, as can be expected) and big thanks to all those who were involved and made such an effort to make this project the success that it was. We especially like to thank Evelyn Schmidt for the huge amount of organising and motivating that she did (not to mention her speech on opening night), Michael Woodburn for his tireless efforts with the painted Mega-fauna and to everyone else who was involved we thank-you for your time and enthusiasm!