Becky Bliss
Becky Bliss trained as a graphic designer before becoming a contemporary art jeweler, completing a Bachelor of Applied Arts at Whitireia Community Polytechnic in 2010. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum, The Auckland War Memorial Museum, and has been selected for Schmuck, the prestigious international exhibition held annualy in Munich.
"Composition, color, texture, and form are very important to me. I try not to put labels on things, but I’d probably be in the minimalist camp, I try to simplify form to convey an idea. Aesthetic always wins out, but it is also subjective. I try to combine aesthetics and interest, but I’m an intuitive maker."

Play Time
A family playing with colour, forms and gender, subverting them through combination to show the fluidity or youth and boundaryless expression of play.
Anthropomorphising the building blocks for child development and play formalised by the founder of the kindergarten system (Friedrick Froebel) in the early 1800s through a series of ‘gifts’, these works play with the shapes from gift#2 – circles, squares and triangles.
Pendants, Fabricated. Mild steel, silver, paint, cord. $750 each
L to R: 93 x 52 x 3mm, 103 x 48 x 3mm, 96 x 58 x 3mm

Meccano body of work
Pendant, Mild steel, paint, thread, 180 x 110mm Rust woman $850
Brooch, Silver, paint, 40 x 55mm, Green/blue/red $580
Brooch, Silver, paint, 40 x 55mm, Pink $580
Brooch, Silver, paint, 40 x 55mm, Gold $580
Pendant, Mild steel, paint, thread, 180 x 110mm, Green/blue/red man $850
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