Spandex, Polyfil, cotton thread. 2013  
 
Striving to be acceptable monopolizes the time spent getting to a place one never really wants to get to. Content enough to live in a place of beautiful self disgust, there is little time left for anything or anyone else. Daily thoughts are spent on caloric summations, body assessment, and inadequacy.   
“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.” ― Naomi Wolf
   
Images by Tineke Maree Jansen

The Home from Home Project is a collaboration between Sarah Read, The Noemi & Julie Jeon.  

Home from Home is an experiment in:

serendipity
reciprocity
stepping beyond one’s comfort zone
The project invites you to step out of your usual routine and invite an artist – Sarah Read – into your home for a 3-day research residency.
  
In return, Sarah will welcome you into her home in Wellington, New Zealand, “the coolest little capital in the world”(Lonely Planet).

MacBook, harvested Facebook statuses from unsecured profiles by people unknown to the artist, acrylic, steel. 2012

Digital images of other jeweller’s brooches, slideshow app, iPhone 4 case, copper, enamel paint, stainless steel. (Warwick Freeman’s “Face Ache” brooch in view). 2012
 
Contains images of brooches by the following jewellers:
Pauline Bern
Renee Bevan
Warrick Freeman
Jacqui Chan
Octavia Cook
Andrea Daly
Jane Dodd
Margaret de Patta
Lisa Walker
Anna Wallis

Domain URL, graphics, sticker jewellery. 2012

See website here. Would you like a few pieces? Contact me and I’ll post you some.

Spandex, polyfill, cotton thread. 2012

Spandex, polyfill, cotton thread. 2012

Plastic chain, cable ties, enamel paint, plaster. 2012

Wood, silicon, brass, ink, plastic, ink pad. 2011

 

 

 

A site-specific installation of cylindrical forms on a construction site in Hooten Reserve, June 2012. Cork, brass, copper, resin, fabric, cotton wool, and many other materials.