Pickup #5 and #6 are part of the 21st Legnica International Jewellery Competition RITUAL. Jewellery has its archetype in the amulet – an object of magical significance. It served as protection against misfortune, gave strength to its wearer, enhanced the feeling of security and showed that its wearers were aware of their identity ...
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Far away a shape appears, a wave of individuals, volatile reverberations, captivating, emerging and constantly changing, filling your sight. Come closer to hear the submerged whisper, blown by breathing voices, indistinctive, continuous public confessions, filling your mind. A gathering, a group, a view, composed paradoxes, a form, unpredicted, dispatched, attracted to be ...
Silke Fleischer works with 3-dimensional structures that remind of familiar, existing objects. Composing with 3-d printing, she is looking for a certain balance between ratio and emotion. Her work does not include extras or function, to purposefully let the object/jewel speak for itself. With this minimalistic approach she carefully creates ...
Partly painted aluminium, polyamide, wool, steel. 550 x 170 x 40 cm. ©Ian Segal
Tiara is exclusive for sale at OP VOORRAAD, The jewellery POP-UP STORE in a hardware shop coat. In 2009 Ineke Heerkens, Jantje Fleischhut and Jeannette Jansen, three Amsterdam based designers, took the initiative to present contemporary jewellery in an unconventional display. OP VOORRAAD shows the jewellery in what appears to be a hardware ...
Tiara was shown during Schmuck in Schmuck Show 2012 organised by Kinga Zobel, gallery BIRÓ
As part of Experimenta Design 2011/Lisboa, PIN – Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewellery launched the challenge, once more, to make a pin from a traditional sewing-pin, as it has made in previous PINSessions. This time, the creation of pins was subordinated to the theme that Experimenta Design promotes Useless and the invitation ...
Looking back at a period of 5 exciting years of exhibiting and inviting jewellery artists in Silke & the Gallery, I am heading for a new direction. These sketches and final business card is the result of a search, trying to find what exectly I want to reach for....
Last year the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp closed his doors for renovation. I could "save" much of the labels wich were presented together with paintings of great masters and used some of them in a different context....
The most recent series of jewellery artist Silke Fleischer embraces the everyday object as a precious thing. In ‘Pickups’ and ‘Fittings’ she focuses and zooms in on our relation with mass-produced objects, usually lacking our attention, but intrinsically sharing a hidden and purposeful design. A lot of these ‘things’ do not even ...
drawings made for The Jewellery Compendium, Darling Publications. neckpiece, bracelet porcelain, silk...
Trained in the arts of silversmithing and ceramics, Silke Fleischer has adopted an unusual approach to jewellery design, bringing together the two disciplines to create a body of work highly evocative in its aesthetic. Establishing her pieces as part of a wider investigation into aspects of corporality and functionality, Fleischer's ...
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