CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND JEWELLERY

Fran Allison

From 2012

"Everything from a shirt……to a necklace"

Necklace
Fabric, silver

Photo
Set $2,000

From 2010
"Rearranging Nature"

"These days we consume and discard, exploit and pollute at an extraordinary rate. These acts of consumerism,
exploitation and pollution result in environmental aberrations – toxic nightmares, hybrids and mutations.

Some of these are beautiful.

A fascination with this process, and with our tinkering with genetic manipulation and the possible resultant forms,
are the inspiration for this jewellery.

I cast weeds in silver and add blooms of toxic looking paint and resin.
The challenge is to bring together the uncomfortable and the seductive."
Fran Allison, 2010

'Bloom' brooch $650

'Tumbleweed' brooch $1,050

'Watch out or they’ll take over the world' earrings $750

Domestic Vine $1,050
Cast silver, domestic china, nickel silver, paint, glue

From 2007

'Over-run' Necklace $2,550
Ceramic running bunnikins, oxidised silver

From 2006

1, Joker brooch, $580, oxidised silver, miniature card, bottle caps
2, Club brooch, $580, oxidised silver, miniature card
3, Diamond brooch, $580, oxidised silver, miniature card, found jewellery

From 2005
"Weeds"

'Random Findings' pins
assorted found objects, silver, 90mm long
$310 each

Clothing Fragments
60mm wide
$80 each

Clothing Fragments
50-60mm wide
$80 each

Red Doily brooch
doily, silver, 75mm diameter
$420

From 2004 "Random Findings" "My aim is to spend each day in the studio having fun with objects and materials that excite me. This work is about a process of rediscovery. I chose to produce this exhibition by working randomly and intuitively. Through re-using and re-looking at objects kept on shelves, in boxes, on window ledges I have come to recognise that the threads that run through my work are reflected in all the things I've collected in a magpie-like way." Fran Allison, 2004
1. Findings $560	2. Findings, $560	3. Baking Power, $490
4. Pie $560	5. Passion, $490	6. Special, $490
7. Substitute, $490	8. Running bunny, $560	9. Daisy, $560
10. Bunny crown, $560	11. Cheers, $600	12. La vache qui ris, $560
From 2003