jewelry Essay

Octavia Cook was born in 1978, Auckland. She currently lives in and works in Auckland. Graduated in 1999 from Unitec Institute of technology with a Bachelor of Design in Jewelry. Since graduating she has had numerous exhibition throughout the years and also started a fabricated company called “Cook & Co” in 2002. Her works include; brooches, rings, bracelets necklaces, pendants and Chains. She is well known for her cameo work, she deals with the idea

In a short extract from Anna Dean “living in a material world” in Object magazine 49, Anna states “cameos reveal little about their subject, but show that individual portrayed is esteemed and/or love enough to be created in relief and kept for prosperity”. The cameo don’t really tell a lot about the artist idea but the silhouettes of these individuals revealed maybe important, respected, loved and known to people. The cameos of these individuals were created in the artists feeling od

A statement by Anna Miles on Octavia Cook work is that “her jewels point to the indivisibility of craft and concept”. Cooks crafts and concepts are unable to be divided or separated at its current state, which all Cooks jewels are. Just by discussing about her jewelry indicate her plan and ideas are similar and associated with one another and all her Jewelry states are indivisible. A great example of this idea is found in “Cooks & Co cameo” 4 part set where her concept of ideas are linked with its similarity in shape which is Oval, the position and placement of the silhouettes are closely associated. Cook creating white silhouettes is a great clash of colors with different color background cause of the white being a dominant color; it reveals clearly the form and shape of the silhouette, although the shape and designs in the cameo maybe different but the plan and idea are the same. Cook’s intention of creating her jewelry are the same and in separable but the outcome maybe different.