Eye Value at Pixel Ink Gallery

08.07.09

Eye Value at Pixel Ink Gallery

Wellington based contemporary jewellery designer, Suni Gibson exhibits her latest collection at Pixel Ink Gallery opening on Wednesday the 22nd of July at 5.30pm.

“Eye Value” is a new series of contemporary jewellery works by Gibson.

The exhibition examines the relevance of jewellery in contemporary consumer culture and its historic and existing use as a signifier of wealth and status.

“Through strategies of repetition, simulation, subtraction and illusion, the work challenges our relationship with luxury goods and the significance of jewellery in popular culture,” says Gibson.

The exhibition will feature jewellery pieces made from Stirling silver, gold plating, porcelain, resin, ebony and paint. A virtual 3D poster and installation will also be hung in the gallery.

Gibson describes her unique hand-crafted work as lush, engaging, resonant and accessible.

Her jewellery is carefully constructed using an array of traditional and non-traditional materials and techniques.

Pixel Ink Gallery director, Rosalind Clark said the exhibition of contemporary jewellery is a first for the gallery.

Audiences will be able to purchase and interact with the jewellery on display.

Exhibition details:

Suni Gibson
Eye Value

Pixel Ink Gallery, 12 Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington

Runs from 22 July – 9 August 2009
Opening night: Wednesday 22 July 5.30 – 7.30pm

Admission FREE

Gallery opening hours:
Mon – Tue: Closed (open by appointment)
Wed – Fri: 10am – 5.30pm
Sat – Sun: 10am – 3.30pm

For more information visit www.pixelink.co.nz or email gallery@pixelink.co.nz.

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Artist Biography

Suni Gibson’s emerging practice has been focused on an inquiry into ideas of value and the current place of historic jewellery icons in western society.

Her work is lush and engaging, resonant, accessible and intellectually challenging. She often combines more than one media and her jewellery is carefully constructed using an array of traditional and ‘non-traditional’ materials and techniques.

Suni’s work has been shown throughout New Zealand since 1997 and has recently been acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Wellington.

About Pixel Ink Gallery

Pixel Ink Gallery provides a space for emerging and established artists to showcase and sell their works. The gallery specialises in contemporary illustrative art.

Our mission is to exhibit and sell fine art in a space where art lovers, art investors and artists alike can experience all that is great about New Zealand art, alongside a small selection of boutique fashion.

The Pixel Ink fashion boutique, art gallery and illustration studio is located at 12 Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand.

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