Helen Britton: Dekorationswut, Cornucopia

Curiosity, Sentimentality, Compassion, Empathy. Recognition of the continuum of human inventiveness and creativity. It's all about the great cornucopia of jewellery. Jewellery, containing this and now waiting to be worn...
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Helen Britton...Violence, love, riches, sentimentally, humour, wisdom, the exotic, the precious, the rare; a friendly small companion, a lucky charm, an amulet. Hope. The small and the large refrain. While the components themselves are in the form of the cheapest trinket, the sentiment that they intend to convey reaches into the deepest abyss. Primal concerns. These components have come bubbling out of the history of humanity and have drifted around the planet collecting along the tidelines of human activity.
There truly are great piles of these kinds of components, stacked boxes full, all glittering and jittering and demanding attention with their giggle, their glint, and their snarl. These accumulated inhabitants of the jungle of material emotions. How did they come about? What were the circumstances of their production? Did they change anything? Did they help? Where did the impetus come from to embark on their production?
I see in these components all the effort, humour, joy and failure of our existence. They seek out in the most unpretentious way everything that has driven our species since time immemorial, right back down to plastic versions of shells so very similar to those found in the Blombos cave, strung together 70 thousand years ago.
All this trailing baggage of history and theory, I leave at the door of my studio. It clutters. The concept has been long since internalized. The components will continue to tell their stories anyway, so for me they then become raw materials that challenge and stretch my powers of creation. The work in the studio is a process of direct, intuitive, integration and construction, an open-ended experiment. I am not trying to dictate what the work will then say. I am conscious of what I have chosen to incorporate, but am completely immersed in my own process of reinvention and creation that lies well outside the limited boundaries of verbalization.
Curiosity, Sentimentality, Compassion, Empathy. Recognition of the continuum of human inventiveness and creativity. It's all about the great cornucopia of jewellery. Jewellery, containing this and now waiting to be worn...
Helen Britton, 2012
Necklace: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver
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Brooch: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver, glass
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Brooch: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver, glass
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Necklace: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver, glass
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Brooch: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver, glass
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Brooch: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver, glass
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Brooch: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver, glass
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Brooch: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver, glass
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Brooch: Untitled, 2012
Plastic, steel, silver, glass
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