Jed Green

Bio

Jed’s practice has developed over the years through working in various mediums. From collage and printmaking to large sculptural forms, she found her voice when she began to translate her ideas into wearable art.

She is inspired by the use of everyday materials to create unique and precious pieces. She uses glass in combination with silver, and gold elements adding warmth and colour, wood, pearls, and paper add detail, pattern, and form. She creates innovative wearable sculptures. Her work is infused with a private language referencing family, milestones, and her immediate surroundings. This informs her decision-making when designing a piece therefore creating a visual story.
 

Statement

Clear borosilicate glass tubes, commonly used in science, are lamp worked to form various shapes. Moving pieces or clusters of these are linked together by drilling and pinning. Colour is applied by painting the interior of the glass wall and applying handmade transfers to pattern the outside. Wood is cut, carved, and dyed adding structure and support and also allowing certain elements to open and small containers revealed.

The idea for the Wear/Display series began in 2020 during a time of change both in living and working environments. It was an opportunity to revisit milestones, memories, past ideas, and work packed away for years and bring them back into focus by creating new ones, each now with a sense of the past, and present and looking to the future of Jed’s life and practice.

She is continuing to evolve ideas around multi-use pieces and unworn jewelry becoming treasured objects. The new Black Column collection developed during events in the past year includes elements connected to the extremes of emotion, from sadness and loss to the simple fun of playing with a child and her toys. The glass components and the micro-environments they hold now take on deeper relevance of fragility and vulnerability and protection.

They are objects to display as sculptures, use as containers, and also have elements that can be removed and worn, pieces that adapt and change.
 

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