Lucy has moved on in to the cabin and is hoping to
be there most Tuesdays from about 10 - 3. I paid her a visit to see what
she is up to.................
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| Lucy Pierpoint at her newly arranged Jewellery bench. |
Having a background
in waste management has proven to be pivotal to Lucy’s contemporary jewellery
practice. Since 2010 she has been fascinated with the use of not all waste or
the understandable culprit plastic, but one genre in particular, analogue
technology paraphernalia. I think we have all seen artists doing the obvious
and utilising discarded out-dated circuitry boards, but Pierpoint has taken it
one step back and is using materials that her generation grew up with; Floppy
disc’s, type writer ribbon, cassette tape, video tape, film and TV screens are
some of the materials she has utilised so far to great effect.
And why not transfer
these materials into a position of jewellery? I can’t think of anything more appropriate
than giving them this elevation. Most of us are guilty of keeping up with technology
and easily disregarding what has gone before, these materials are our identity,
we need to show them some respect for what they have given us. Of course the
material itself is not gold but by the time Pierpoint has transformed it there
is definitely something a lot more precious going on and as for wearing it, I agree
with Pierpoint’s insinuation that we should take ownership of it; it is our waste after all.
Pierpoint is
currently looking for new materials that she can experiment with while at the
same time sourcing more film which she would still like to transform further. In previous experimentation she discovered the brilliant colours that can be brought
out of it …………..
Concurrently Pierpoint
has her TV screen rings on display at Debrasic, Lauren Haynes new contemporary jewellery workshop/store in Thames.
But getting
back to the circuitry boards, I found some irony when I searched and found this
for sale;
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Scrap Computer Circuit Boards for Gold and Precious
Metal Recovery Approx 33 #'s
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33 pounds of scrap circuit boards for gold and other precious metal
recovery. No brown low grade boards!! Pictures are actual boards you will
receive.
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Condition
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Time left 6d 1h 20m
And…………………………….
You are bidding on a box of misc. These boards are clean and still have
the gold attached. Again, the gold fingers are still connected. There is no
guarantee on ram or processors being attached.
GOLD!? WOW............
So go for gold Lucy there is definitely some there in unwanted
technology…………..I will look forward to seeing what comes next.
Sarah Walker-Holt 7 Nov 2013
