Remade-Reloved

Location

Australian Design Centre
101-115 William St
Darlinghurst NSW 2010

Date/Time

3–26 October 2024

(Opening drinks Thursday 3 October 6–8pm)

Organised by Bridget Kennedy for Australian Design Centre

Remade-Reloved is a group exhibition featuring makers who have repurposed costume jewellery donated by the public, as well as other found objects, into new pieces.

Celebrating the opportunity for renewal, each maker has converted the discarded and unloved into the precious – using less to create more. In creatively and actively repurposing, the makers present us with ways of writing new narratives and reassessing our meaning of precious.

I am grateful that I can play and discover like a child and still remember what that feels like.  I have assembled colour and form, while exploring ways to see how the movement of the wearer aligns the elements and presents a nice pattern. The brightly-coloured circular segments have been given space with transparent connections.

Bridget Kennedy

Australian Design Centre

Five Squares – necklace

aluminium and steel alloys

Five perfect squares are connected to each other by irregular squares and rectangles. Gravity and movement will create different formations.

Childs Play – earrings, necklace

painted wooden segments, dyed polycarbonate, surgical stainless steel

I am grateful that I can play and discover like a child and still remember what that feels like.  I have assembled colour and form, while exploring ways to see how the movement of the wearer aligns the elements and presents a nice pattern. The brightly coloured circular segments have been given space with transparent connections.