Pink Cloud

Pink Cloud

£273.00

Material: Pink quartz briolette, pigmented+layered polyurethane, nylon, steel, recycled Stg Silver

 

To unbind jewellery from its mooring would be unsettling – an agreed contract between maker and market would be set adrift to re-fashion itself in a world where rules would no-longer apply.

Yet the origins of the word Jewel, from the old French jouel, originate from the Latin root jocus meaning joke, jest, toy, plaything. Motivated by this spirit I work as if preparing for a celebration, in a kitchen laboratory where jewels are conjured from surprising and unexpected ingredients.

But society has agreed upon what Jewellery is. Its conventions are bound to rules of economics, materiality, size and skill – carefully honed over centuries.

To unbind such strong conventions is both unsettling and invigorating. And just as instinct invariably draws us towards jewels, toys and playthings for reassurance, I intend my ‘jouel’ to act as small anchors, metaphorical moorings that root us in a past as we steer towards a mythologised unbound future living with technology.

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Artist Bio

 

Anne Earls Boylan began her career in jewellery at the Ulster Polytechnic, studying 3-dimensional design, followed by a Master’s at the Royal College of Art. After a brief period exhibiting with Dazzle and workshop projects with the V&A, she embarked on a PGCE at UCL Institute of Education. Returning to N.I. in 1991, AEB began lecturing in jewellery at Ulster University, where she remained until 2021.

She now lives and works in the countryside outside Belfast, making jewellery that references the rich history of adornment. Drawing on a dynamic and explorative space, AEB plays with the roles that material, process and value contribute within her pieces. Her jewellery is a lively collaboration between material, artist, wearer and audience.

AEB has exhibited nationally and internationally with works in the collection of the Arts Council N.I. She is a founding member of ACJSNI, regional lead for ACJ and has recently been invited onto the Board of ACJ as a Director. AEB has curated a number of significant exhibitions and workshops, bringing the diversity and richness of contemporary jewellery to new audiences.

 

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