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3rd Year GENRE Assignment
In this assignment students are required to identify, investigate and interpret genre of art, craft, design, culture or society. This process is intended to provide a starting point for investigation. This assists students to identify meaningful subject matter and connections to broader cultural phenomena, for the development of interesting work. Topics students have tackled include a revisit of the pop art movement, origami craft traditions, and political issues with regard to Japanese whaling amongst other themes. Each work includes a brief description of the students chosen genre.
The assignment supports students in establishing their own distinctive voice as designers and makers of jewellery. This is a challenging point in their development and requires that ideas are expressed with appropriate materials and clarity of form. They are encouraged to experiment with materials and process. This assignment is as much about the process involved in developing original and distinctive work as it is about the finished piece. In this sense students are schooled in the research process and exploration of materials so they are capable of independently arriving at distinctive work throughout their career.
3rd Year GENRE Assignment
Brooches, Ja Young Cho - 2007
My genre explores the political issues associated with Japanese whaling. I have manufactured a series of works in response to my own cross cultural stance in relation to this matter. Within my works the whales ‘act’ like humans by fishing, cooking and eating human flesh. Each of these pieces holds small details or indications of Japan ’s cultural identity.
Brooch, Danielle Nicholson - 2007
My genre is based on pop art, in particular the work of Andy Wahrol. I have manufactured work featuring the household tap as a universal object. In a simple subliminal manner I am drawing on pop arts creative mechanisms including repetition, mass production and irony to reference current debate on water management.
Brooches, Wayne Simon - 2007
These works are the product of research into graffiti art and the technique of manufacturing Mokumé Gané. Mokumé Gané is fused layers of differing metals which are methodically worked to achieve the desired decorative finish. This material has become the principal element in these works and provided the layered textural quality inherent in Graffiti art. References to spray techniques are made through the use of line and symbol.