Panorama by Julie Blyfield at Bilk Gallery

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Julie Blyfield

Julie Blyfield makes jewellery, small-scale vessels and sculptural objects. For Panorama, she set out to create a ‘landscape of work’ to see how her work would flow and develop almost by osmosis over an extended period of time. Her pieces are delicate, fine and textured, they are constructed in silver, bi metal (thin 22 carat gold fused onto silver sheet), some surfaces are enhanced with enamel paint others are oxidised.

Julie captures the sights and the spirit of the landscape with photography and recording. She notes: At different times of the year on my daily walks, I see changes in the environment where I live. Small things catch my eye – a leaf, a seed, seed pods piled in the street, piles of leaves, seasons, the colours, the changes. As I walk I collect and select pieces of ephemera - it can be a small insignificant leaf. 

The small vessels and jewellery reflect Julie's responses to the South Australian landscape. Through these pieces she focuses on the details that give the place its unique character - At landscape of works I wanted to make a long landscape of jewellery and object that says something about the place where I live. On the tile of her exhibit, Panorama, Julie says I decided it reflects the ‘openness’ and lightness and diversity of the Australian landscape, I wanted this to reflect something about Australia, its scale, colour and history.