Bette Nunneley. Central Saint Martins. New Talents Award Nominee 2024
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Published: 30.12.2024
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The 10th edition of the New Talent Award 2024 by Klimt02 aims to recognize the work of graduate students in our field by supporting their careers in the professional world. Nominated by our school members, one of the selected graduates will win the New Talents Award.
Bette masterfully manipulates her materials through hours of laborious reworking, to create pieces that give a nod to their original narrative whilst making a subtle statement about value and materials.
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Name of graduation student: Bette Nunneley
Name of guiding teacher: Lin Cheung, Frances Wadsworth Jones, Scott Wilson, Giles Last, Sally Collins, Max Warren, Katharina Dettar
Nominated by Central Saint Martins, BA (Hons) Jewellery Design.
Bette Nunneley’s graduating collection of coin jewellery simultaneously surprises, delights and encourages the viewer to question our perceptions of value and the physical money we often have gathered at the bottom of our purse or in a jar saved for a rainy day on the shelf.
Coins- such a ‘rich’ source of cultural history and storytelling, which are becoming increasingly obsolete in a cashless society- have been redefined, refashioned, remodelled, redesigned and recontextualised as jewellery that reinterpret their value and meaning. Bette masterfully manipulates her materials through hours of laborious reworking, to create pieces that give a nod to their original narrative whilst making a subtle statement about value and materials. Bette states that “My Ideas are my Currency”- which is perfectly captured in this insightful collection of wearable coins.
/ Course Leader, Sally Collins
The statement of the artist:
Bette’s work takes objects with an intrinsic monetary value – coins – and uses them to create a series of artworks that, in this transmogrified form, subvert our ideas about true merit. By becoming part of her process, the jewellery takes on a worth so much greater than the coins on their own. Her detailed analysis of the imagery of coinage makes a playful, tongue-in-cheek reflection on true value; her understanding of the properties of the metal used in money gives her a personal mastery in the use of coins as art.
/ Interpretative text by Hal Warren, BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation
Contact:
Mail: nunneleybette@gmail.com
Find out more about the courses at Central Saint Martins
Name of guiding teacher: Lin Cheung, Frances Wadsworth Jones, Scott Wilson, Giles Last, Sally Collins, Max Warren, Katharina Dettar
Nominated by Central Saint Martins, BA (Hons) Jewellery Design.
Bette Nunneley’s graduating collection of coin jewellery simultaneously surprises, delights and encourages the viewer to question our perceptions of value and the physical money we often have gathered at the bottom of our purse or in a jar saved for a rainy day on the shelf.
Coins- such a ‘rich’ source of cultural history and storytelling, which are becoming increasingly obsolete in a cashless society- have been redefined, refashioned, remodelled, redesigned and recontextualised as jewellery that reinterpret their value and meaning. Bette masterfully manipulates her materials through hours of laborious reworking, to create pieces that give a nod to their original narrative whilst making a subtle statement about value and materials. Bette states that “My Ideas are my Currency”- which is perfectly captured in this insightful collection of wearable coins.
/ Course Leader, Sally Collins
The statement of the artist:
Bette’s work takes objects with an intrinsic monetary value – coins – and uses them to create a series of artworks that, in this transmogrified form, subvert our ideas about true merit. By becoming part of her process, the jewellery takes on a worth so much greater than the coins on their own. Her detailed analysis of the imagery of coinage makes a playful, tongue-in-cheek reflection on true value; her understanding of the properties of the metal used in money gives her a personal mastery in the use of coins as art.
/ Interpretative text by Hal Warren, BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation
Contact:
Mail: nunneleybette@gmail.com
Find out more about the courses at Central Saint Martins
Head piece: The Run of the Mill Tiara, 2024
A commemorative coin minted in 1965, Cupronickel
4 x 0.08 x 32 cm
Serial number: 01/03
Photo by: Bette Nunneley
From series: Change/ Relics for the future
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Estimated price: 300 €
Ring: 10 cents Ring / Love Well Spent, 2024
A 10 cents coin minted 2002, nordic gold (brass)
1.5 x 0.01 x 15 cm
Serial number: 01/02
Photo by: Bette Nunneley
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Estimated price: 200 €
Earrings: Penny Pearl Drop Earring / IMMATE RIAL, 2024
Two 2p coins minted 1985, bronze. Laser welded and soldered.
1 x 8 cm
Photo by: Izzy Forbes, Bette Nunneley
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Estimated price: 800 €
Brooch: Penny Feather Brooch / Fallen from my Mothers Wings, 2024
One 1p coin minted 1978, bronze, mild steel pin, glue
8 x 0.04 x 20 cm
Photo by: Bette Nunneley
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Estimated price: 800 €
Head piece: Coin Wreath/ The Triumph of Love, 2024
Commemorative coins minted 1965, cupronickel, laser welded
6 x 0.01 x 5.8 cm
Photo by: Bette Nunneley
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Estimated price: 1000 €
Bette Nunneley: Coin Headpieces Photo booths, 2024.
Prints, scanned
Prints, scanned
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