Exhibitions 2009 The Way Of The Goddess
25th March 2009
'The Way Of The Goddess' is the first exhibition at the Silverworkz Gallery and invites you to come and view the way some of the local artists and jewellers interpret this phenomenon.
Remon Jephcott, who has just won the TSB Prize for Excellence awarded at the Mal Gallery, London, from The Society of Designer Craftsmen, will be displaying her ceramic Madonna’s, 'Eve’s Daughters'. Julia Hunter is concerned with the elements of Fertility and fuses porcelain and fine silver.
There will be many more Jeweller’s work to see.
Come and join us for a glass of wine,
Saturday 21st March 6.30 till 9pm.
REMON JEPHCOTT
For me there is a contradictory response towards the Madonna Icon; one of awe, and one of an awareness concerning its message that has held women in ‘place’
Using the Virgin Mary symbol may seem too obvious, but the image is deeply embedded into our subconscious and with it, the dogma attached. In this work, Eve’s Daughters, I have used the Madonna to represent how the Icon epitomizes woman’s duty to purity, innocence and subordination. Patriarchal conditioning is deeply rooted within a society that claims ‘woman’s chastity’, and then renders degradation upon her. From the very beginnings of Christianity, ‘woman’, Eve is shown as the sinner; inheriting ‘original sin’ is our birth right, whereas the control of female sexuality has been ‘man’s’ birth right.
Modern woman is freer today from the restrictions of religion but the quest for the perfection of ‘woman’ is still prevalent in today’s society; for instance the striving for the ideal body by means of surgery. There is a fundamental feeling that we are not good enough as we are.
My response to the exhibitions’ title, The Way of the Goddess, has been inspired from personal work which has evolved from many years of research into the social/cultural construction of my identity as a ‘woman’. Central to that investigation has been the universal image of the Madonna, which has held a powerful influence over me since childhood.
Jewellers
Dee Frost
Emma Hill
Savannha Overy
Jo Davis
Julia Hunter
Remon Jephcott, who has just won the TSB Prize for Excellence awarded at the Mal Gallery, London, from The Society of Designer Craftsmen, will be displaying her ceramic Madonna’s, 'Eve’s Daughters'. Julia Hunter is concerned with the elements of Fertility and fuses porcelain and fine silver.
There will be many more Jeweller’s work to see.
Come and join us for a glass of wine,
Saturday 21st March 6.30 till 9pm.
REMON JEPHCOTT
For me there is a contradictory response towards the Madonna Icon; one of awe, and one of an awareness concerning its message that has held women in ‘place’
Using the Virgin Mary symbol may seem too obvious, but the image is deeply embedded into our subconscious and with it, the dogma attached. In this work, Eve’s Daughters, I have used the Madonna to represent how the Icon epitomizes woman’s duty to purity, innocence and subordination. Patriarchal conditioning is deeply rooted within a society that claims ‘woman’s chastity’, and then renders degradation upon her. From the very beginnings of Christianity, ‘woman’, Eve is shown as the sinner; inheriting ‘original sin’ is our birth right, whereas the control of female sexuality has been ‘man’s’ birth right.
Modern woman is freer today from the restrictions of religion but the quest for the perfection of ‘woman’ is still prevalent in today’s society; for instance the striving for the ideal body by means of surgery. There is a fundamental feeling that we are not good enough as we are.
My response to the exhibitions’ title, The Way of the Goddess, has been inspired from personal work which has evolved from many years of research into the social/cultural construction of my identity as a ‘woman’. Central to that investigation has been the universal image of the Madonna, which has held a powerful influence over me since childhood.
Jewellers
Dee Frost
Emma Hill
Savannha Overy
Jo Davis
Julia Hunter
