Centred 3 by Eimear Conyard - Craft NI Exhibitions

Centred 3

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‘Centred 3’ by Eimear Conyard consists of an oxidised silver and 24ct yellow gold keum-bu vessel, a perspex and 22ct yellow gold brooch and a stand. It unites adornment and containment in a dialogue between precision and gesture.

The brooch’s acrylic surface, carved with fine, intersecting lines, echoes the golden striations of the vessel that holds it in an interplay of reflection, fracture, and light. When worn, it is subject to movement and touch; when nested within its silver form, it rests as if in quiet orbit. Through contrasts of hard geometry and organic rhythm, ‘Centred 3’ seeks to explore the shifting boundaries between jewellery as a body adornment and as an object.

Materials: oxidised silver, silver, 24ct yellow gold, 22ct yellow gold, perspex, leather.

Measurements: perspex base approx. 20cm x8cm.

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Artist Bio

Eimear Conyard is a jewellery and timepiece designer with over 15 years experience who believes jewellery is not merely adornment but also an object independent from the body. Her sculptural jewellery uses contrasting precious and non-precious materials to build resting places for jewellery; large hollow forms created to house and build this other context, a second place of being exclusive of the human physique.

Her most recent body of work incorporates materials and techniques used to produce my timepieces without the constraints of the functionality and mechanics of the object. The use of perspex influences the design and balance of precious materials like gold, silver and pearls.

Eimear combines her practice with working in education and she is currently Manager of the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Jewellery and Goldsmithing Skills and Design Course. She also previously lectured at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University in the UK and at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada.

She has exhibited her work in Ireland, England, Canada, USA, and Europe.