Memory Maps Part 2 and Digital Artefacts at Platina

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Pierce Healy, Annika Pettersson

Pierce Healy
Memory Maps Part II 

“You say 
you wish you hand the confidence of the crashing waves,
and the patience of a volcano.
Oh, I remember you
freckle faced, fearless howling at the moon.
And I remember
throwing stones at aeroplanes 
building fires on the wasteland.
There was no tomorrow 
just you and me
forever.
Carved on an old oak tree.
You know the one with the swing, over the river.
Over the river.
Now you ask, where did all those days go?
You say theres a wrinkle for every winter 
a scar for every summer, and it shows.
Oh, I remember you…”
 
The master engraver Pierce Healy creates subversive objects and jewellery with intricate engravings and textures. He is fascinated by the capacity of jewellery to embody our stories and to facilitate storytelling, each piece is an experiment driven by curiosity; a study that informs the next piece in perpetuity and combines his obsession with the everyday, with his passion for walking, joking, singing, playing guitar, drawing and hand engraving, to create truly unique handcrafted objects and jewellery. In short, Pierce Healy conjures visual incongruities, manifested as objects and jewellery, in an attempt to make sense of the nonsense of the everyday and to question common values and what is valuable!
Pierce Healy is an artist from Dublin, Ireland. 2012 he graduated from Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden and is since then based in Stockholm.