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Shipwreck | D A N A E    N A T S I S
W O R K S
29 October  – 16 November 2013
Concepts are intertwined with te processes employed in this series, which was made while pondering te act of creation — te roles of chance and te subconscious in te artistic process, and how shapes and meanings manifest themselves in an object. Accidental and random designs have a winsome allure that has long fascinated artists, but is what we humans do ever truly random? Can we make without applying meaning?
Te works were conceived through working with accidents & play after a period of travel through Europe, America & Greece: experimenting with shape, material, process & colour; allowing these outcomes to acquire meanings that may have been present as subconscious thoughts & building on them; letting themes (islands, myths, museums & memories) evolve. Te works are about te accidental creation of beauty & expression, my Greek heritage & te effects of time on objects. Automatic drawings have become coastlines of Greek islands & barnacled textures of submerged ancient artefacts. Experiments with patina & pigment mimic 3000 years of oxide. Anodised niobium creates psychedelic aquatic creatures. Randomly hammered & wrinkled 3D shapes protrude like archipelagos. Te meandering lines now reference journeys: ancient mythological quests, te voyages of seafaring vessels that lie wrecked beneath te waves & my own wanderings (geographical, conceptual, & temporal) discovering my heritage, path & place.
Just as te beauty of a shipwrecked artefact has grown from a random accident so has te inception of te forms, lines & concepts in this series.
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2013, shibuichi, anodised niobium, 925 silver, patina, remainium
16 x 9 x 3 cm
2013, anodised niobium, silver, copper, patina
11 x 11.5 x 4 cm
2013, anodised niobium, 925 silver, 9 carat gold & silver bimetal
11.5 x 11.5 x 3 cm
2013, anodised niobium, silver, copper, pigment
14 x 12 x 4 cm
2013, shibuichi, anodised niobium, 925 silver, patina
25 x 19 x 2.3 cm (variable)
2013, anodised niobium, silver, remainium
11 x 10.5 x 2.5 cm
2013, anodised niobium, 9 carat gold, 925 silver
4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm each
2013, anodised niobium, copper, 925 silver, pigment, remainium
2012, anodised niobium, silver, remainium
15 x 12.5 x 4 cm
2013, shibuihci, anodised niobium, 925 silver, patina
5.5 x 5 x 1.6 cm
18 x 14 cm
O uιtoς tnς Apιάδvnς
2013, 9 carat gold and silver bimetal, 9 carat gold hooks
6.3 x 2.6 x 2.6 each
2013, anodised niobium, 925 silver, copper, shibuichi, pigment, patina
8.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 cm
2013, shibuichi, anodised niobium, 925 silver, patina, remainium
5.5 x 8.5 x 2 cm
2013, anodised niobium, 925 silver, remainium
8 x 6.5 x 2 cm
Earrings for te Green Woman
2013, anodised niobium, 925 silver
6.5 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm each
2013, anodised niobium, 925 silver
7.5 x 5 x 1.7 cm
2013, shibuichi, anodized niobium, pigment, 925 silver
7 x 4 x 2 cm each
Shipwreck | 2013 | W O R K S