Author: Gemma
tea cup – pellizco – flowers
tea cup – pellizco – flowers from Gemma Draper on Vimeo.
street wisdom – numbers
street wisdom – lugares
flora’s head – in progress
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street wisdom – flowers
streetflowers from Gemma Draper on Vimeo.
tea cup – pellizco – flores cobalto
tea cup – pellizco – flores cobalto from Gemma Draper on Vimeo.
street wisdom- metallic door
turquoise
studio life – water
studio life – cleaning
a place for bees
church
holiday view
street wisdom – stairs
street wisdom – the most difficult part
street wisdom – subway mecanic stairs
still life – soap
street wisdom – what are you doing around here?
old fabric
detritus
studio life – a sense of direction
flowers in the museum
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Twochairsandatable-Jewellery Agency, is the journal of the 2nd half of my time as a Senior Lecturer at Teesside University and Jeweller in Residence at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (2013-2015). A way to capture and share my everyday activities.
Wandering Monograms
Wandering Monograms, 2015. Series of 6 broches. Fold and welded steel wire.
Trinkets
Trinkets, 2015 Fold Japanese paper.
Beautiful Middlesbrough. Unmined Gold
As expressed in panmetallism, metal is coextensive to the whole of matter, and the whole of matter to metallurgy. Even the waters, the grasses and varieties of wood, the animals, are populated by salts or mineral elements. Not everything is metal, but metal is everywhere. Metal is the conductor of all matter. —Deleuze and Guattari
Beautiful Middlesbrough. Behind and Upfront
Beautiful Middlesbrough. Dot System
2 The Jewel
While seating in a terrace with my Endotic team colleagues, at the end of the last day conference presentations, I’m called by a luminous sign blinking from the corner of my vision field. I grasp the phone, turn the camera on, and run to capture what seems like a ghostly dream.