Donna Brennan
Published: 01.03.2020
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Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Opal.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Selected at Schmuck 2020
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Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Opal.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm mounted with Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium.
Selected at Schmuck 2020
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Opal.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm mounted with Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium.
Detail view
Detail view
Selected at Schmuck 2020
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, 925 Blackened Silver, Minerals.
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Selected at Schmuck 2020
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, 925 Blackened Silver, Minerals.
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Dye Sublimation Print mounted on Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm with Brooch.
Selected at Schmuck 2020
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, 925 Blackened Silver, Minerals.
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Dye Sublimation Print mounted on Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm with Brooch.
Detail view
Detail view
Selected at Schmuck 2020
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, 925 Blackened Silver, Opals.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, 925 Blackened Silver, Opals.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310 gr mounted with Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium with Faceted Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver and Opal.
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, 925 Blackened Silver, Opals.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310 gr mounted with Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium with Faceted Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver and Opal.
Detail view
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium with Faceted Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Opal.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium with Faceted Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Opal.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310 gr mounted with Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium.
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium with Faceted Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Opal.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
From series: Hortus Conclusus
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310 gr mounted with Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium.
Detail view
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Watermelon Tourmaline, Black Diamond Shards.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
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Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Watermelon Tourmaline, Black Diamond Shards.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm mounted with Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium.
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Brooch: Hortus Conclusus, 2018
Lucite, Blackened 925 Silver, Watermelon Tourmaline, Black Diamond Shards.
50 x 4 x 50 cm
Photo by: Richard Valencia
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm mounted with Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium.
Detail view
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Installation Hortus Conclusus at COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery 2018. Photo by Sophie Mutevelian.
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Installation Hortus Conclusus at COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery 2018. Photo by Sophie Mutevelian.
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Donna Brennan with her installation Hortus Conclusus at COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery 2018. Photo by Sophie Mutevelian.
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Installation Hortus Conclusus at COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery 2018. Photo by Sophie Mutevelian.
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Artist Jeweller Donna Brennan was born in Australia and lives & works in London. Initially fine art trained with a focus on photography, she then gained a BA in Fine Art with Distinction from RMIT, Australia. Awarded a DAAD Scholarship for Post-graduate studies in jewellery, Germany from 1992-1995, she also holds an MA with Distinction from the RCA, London in 2010. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Decorative Art in Dresden, Germany, Jewelers' Werk Washington, and Galerie Marzee, Netherlands, and participating in numerous group exhibitions internationally. Her work sits in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum (SM’s), The Netherlands; the V & A Museum, London; and the Koch Collection in the National Museum, Switzerland, among others. She is the recipient of a prestigious Australia Council Award for the Arts.
Statement
I am a Fine Art Jeweller who has adopted a cross-disciplinary approach to photography and sculptural jewellery, crafting a narrative from image to object which blurs the dichotomy between Fine Art and Applied Art. The abundance of unique nature surrounding me while growing up in my native Australia has proved to be an instrumental influence in my organic nature / artifice aesthetic, which is intuitively expressed in the botanical like forms in my work.My recent wearable photographic installation made for COLLECT ‘Open’ 2018, and COLLECT 2019, at the Saatchi Gallery, London, explored the materiality of a 2D image by adding an embellished 3D dimension which has been extracted and crafted - or "borrowed" from the photographic image upon which it is mounted and alludes to "Shakkei, which means 'borrowed landscape".
The extracted images are then laminated with a faceted lucite facade, which acts as a beacon for the interplay of light and imparts a sense of intrigue. Creating a view finder to an inner world, the lucite object creates a microcosm within the macrocosm of the larger image - a "Hortus Conclusus", or an enclosed garden of veritable earthly delights!
A selection of this work has been selected for the Schmuck 2020 exhibition in Munich.
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