David Neale: Love Letters

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David Neale

Goldsmith David Neale creates a large scale installation in the Pieces of Eight Gallery window, exploring the idea of jewellery as a conveyor of love. Within the gallery is a new collection of wearable works further investigating this subject, the jewellery pieces evoking a three dimensional love letter. With love being so lofty, and jewellery being so material, Neale attempts to navigate pitfalls common to jewellery such as superficiality, bombast, vanity, and the design challenge that jewellery needs to be partly 'empty' to allow givers and wearers to bestow their own meaning to it.

In this exhibition, Neale asks: "How can I make jewellery that is ready for this mission? True, this will come down to typical decisions about materials and shapes and ergonomics, but in this quest the goldsmith must seek, above all, to imbue the attributes of generosity and dignity, eloquence and concision. Perhaps most elusively, some sort of draught; a capacity to carry love's message, without forgetting it, without talking over the top of it, not crushing it – but holding and delivering it at the same time, for as long as possible."

We proudly welcome David Neale as a newly represented artist at Pieces of Eight Gallery.