Category: Related Exhibitions and Events

Related Events I Attended

1.Goldsmiths’ Fair 2022

Goldsmiths’ Fair is an annual selling event and exhibition showcasing a curated selection of work by some of the best fine jewellers and contemporary silversmiths creating and making in the UK today. I visited the day before it ended. The whole fair gathered dozens of artists, using different craft/techniques to create their work. One artist I really liked, Jed Green, was also in attendance, she works with a combination of glass and metal.She also had a project in collaboration with two other female jewellery designers that inspired me.

2.Drink your imagination

Interesting workshop! Never had a way to drink my imagination down, even though it didn’t taste too good haha. I think this is a good example of workshop that can be used as a reference for my third intervention.

Related Exhibitions I visited (2)

1. London Design Festival – PEARL

Caroline Broadhead’s work in this exhibition caught my eye. She has an interesting combination of woven metal and pearls. The artist told me that she has always been concerned with objects that come into contact and interact with the body, exploring the external range of the body through light, shadow, reflection and movement.

2. V&A AFRICA FASHION

This exhibition looks back at the history of fashion in Africa, including the women’s equal rights movement and feminist designs. This exhibition gave me an insight into feminist design in Africa, unfortunately there was less jewellery design related to it rather than the majority of clothing design. However, through the evolution of patterns, shapes and so on, I could fully appreciate the power of feminist design

Related Exhibitions I visited (1)

1. Carolee Schneemann, Body Politics

Schneemann was a radical artist who remains a feminist icon and point of reference for numerous contemporary artists to this day. Addressing urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war, her work is concerned with the precarious lived experience of humans and animals. The artist has created many groundbreaking art/performances using her own body as a medium. Many of her exhibited works explore the sexualisation and objectification of women and have inspired me on how to improve body image in my project.

Carolee Schneemann | Body Politics | Barbican | Hales Gallery
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics” at Barbican Art Gallery, London - Mousse Magazine - News - PPOW

2. Soheila Sokhanvari, Rebel Rebel

Rebel Rebel, the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran. As I enter the Curve Gallery at the Barbican, I am greeted by the songs of Googoosh. It is her bittersweet story – a story of punishment, persecution, imprisonment and exile, but also of perseverance, unquenchable creativity and defiance – that becomes the story of almost all the women who appear in Sokhanvari’s exquisite miniatures. The walls of the entire gallery have been painted with traditional Islamic iconography in geometric shapes. When I visit inside, I can feel the cries of women across time.

Soheila Sokhanvari: Rebel Rebel – Barbican Shop
Rebel Rebel – Agnes Ashe
ArtThursdays - Rebel-Rebel by Soheila Sokhanvari at The Curve, Barbic – Stööki