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 work seeks to uncover complex relationships existing between the everyday object and human form. Embarking upon a exploration into the different ways in which such items can be juxtaposed with the human form she views her work as a type of research - an intuitive creative research concerning the relationship between design and art, the body and the object: as a means of individual, artistic and social exploration. Pieces are rendered in smooth, simple forms that combine sterling silver with simple white ceramic shapes, overtly reflective of the everyday. Rejecting colour, they are clean and minimalist in appearance yet heavy in symbolism, meaning and metaphor.
Beccy Clarke - New directions in jewellery II
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porcelain, zircon / ph Thomas Fleischer
_European triennale for contemporary jewellery, WCC-BF, Mons (BE)
_Migration in JEWELS in migration, curator Villa De Bondt / Gallery Neon
Villa De Bondt, Gandt (BE)
CC Hasselt (BE)
Chateau de Seneffe (BE)
_Blickfang, Tokyo (JP) |
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porcelain, cotton / ph Thomas Fleischer
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glazed porcelain, cotton / ph Thomas Fleischer
_Migration in JEWELS in migration, curator Villa De Bondt / Gallery Neon
Villa De Bondt, Gandt (BE)
CC Hasselt (BE)
Chateau de Seneffe (BE)
_Blickfang, Tokyo (JP) |
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porcelain, hemp / ph Thomas Fleischer |
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ring / Ag , nylon / ph Thomas Fleischer
_Young design, Gallery Design Flanders, Brussels (BE)
_Geboren & getooid, CC Bornem (BE)
_Opening Silke & THE GALLERY, 2005 Antwerp (BE)
_Blickfang, Tokyo (JP)
_ONE?, Sask, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
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ring / chocolate, Au / ph Serkan Emiroglu
Words are taken into our mouth, and so is chocolate. Tasting something is as starting an intimate conversation with this substance, it is becoming a part of us.
_2th price, Knokke Heist Design Award (BE)
_Ad!dict Chocolate Lab Expo (BE / NL)
_Better food, Gallery Design Flanders, Brussels (BE)
_Belgische Vormgeving 2, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
_Blickfang Tokyo (JP)
_Jewels. Illustration and design. Maomao Publications (ES)
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egg stand / porcelain, nylon / ph Thomas Fleischer
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_Belgian Jewellers, Gallery Villa De Bondt / Oeverture, Gandt (BE)
_500 pendants & lockets, Lark Books (US) |
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parts / ring / ceramic
rings where the wearable form comes accidentally or by chance. Pieces/fragments of broken cups … . Out of this subject came limited wearable multiples.
_Memorabilia et cetera, SASK, Sint Niklaas (BE)
_ARTE FACT / 10, Jewellery departement, Sint Lucas Antwerp (BE)
_Blickfang, Tokyo (JP)
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french fries / Ag / ph Serkan Emiroglu & Gina Olafson
The small fork that comes with a bag of Belgian chips is made into a wearable object in silver.
_New Directions in Jewellery II, Black Dog Publishing (UK)
_Ad!dict inspiration lab, INSPIRATION BOOK : FOOD (BE)
_3th price, B-Products, Bruges (BE)
_ARTE FACT / 10, Jewellery departement, Sint Lucas Antwerp (BE)
_Better food, Gallery Design Flanders, Brussels (BE)
_Belgische Vormgeving 2, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
_Showcase Gallery S & H De Buck, Lineart Gandt (B)
_Tęte-a-tęte: tafelen met Designers, Designmuseum Gandt (BE)
_My Universal Home, Singapore (SG)
_Blickfang, Tokyo (JP)
_Oeverture, Gallery S&H De Buck, Gandt (BE)
_je suis da da, Design Flanders, Turijn (IT)
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chips bag / ph Serkan Emiroglu & Gina Olafson |
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Je t'embrasse / Ag
By using French expressions: “je t’embrasse “ and “on se touche” came rings.These rings describe the embracement/touching of the finger, and they have the more intimate meaning of a relation ring.
_MARRIED, Knokke Heist Design Award (BE)
_Blickfang, Tokyo (JP)
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handtas (handbag) / ring / ceramic
_'Bag age', Stedelijk Modemuseum Hasselt (BE)
_ARTE FACT / 10, Jewellery departement, Sint Lucas Antwerp (BE)
_Better food, Gallery Design Flanders, Brussels (BE)
_Belgische Vormgeving 2, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
_Blickfang, Tokyo (JP) |
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