Eerie

Eerie

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‘Eerie’ by Eimear Conyard is an oxidised silver and 24ct yellow gold keum-bu vessel which encompasses the tension between precision making and nature’s persistence. The hard geometric shape in concentric cyclinder form and anchored by the square lip at the top of the vessel is met by a flowing band of gold that drifts across its surface like feathered wings seeking rest. This resolves at the top of the vessel in the nest of interwoven gold around the aperture. This juxtaposition of form and texture evokes cycles of emergence and containment. The vessel as both boundary and invitation, a moment of stillness where the organic and the constructed briefly coexist.

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

Measurements: carved acrylic base measures 25 x 11cm.

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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.

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