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Jolanta Gazda

Jeweller
Published: 07.10.2024

Bio

Jolanta Gazda learned the goldsmithing trade in Warsaw-based Wytwórnia Antidotum. Since 2010 she has been designing author’s jewellery and building her brand FROU FROU. She is a Polish Goldsmithing Artists' Association member and the International Amber Association.

Statement

In my work I combine traditional goldsmith's craftsmanship with textile techniques. Swapping colorful threads for precious metals, I’m trying to translate a traditional folkcraft technique into a modern form of art. I’m inspired by the natural world. I’m particularly fascinated by the underwater world – undulating coral reefs and flowing, glistening jellyfish. It’s a real spectacle of shapes and colors! I also like to see the world through the lenses of a microscope; human cells, viruses, bacteria that form complicated dimensional structures, seemingly chaotic, yet in the end encompassed by mathematical order. That is also the rule for my jewelry. I allow the wire to weave freely, but I always limit it with a geometrical form.

I like the lightness, transparency and airiness of my jewelry. I like to imagine that the “piece of jewelry” is not just the woven wire, but the space closed between, encompassed by its strands. So, this is exactly the kind of play. Judging a piece we should always have the dilemma: we are looking at the solid matter or just some airforms. The interaction between “something” and “nothing” is always fundamental "here”
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2023:
Meeting  05 May 2023 - 06 May 2023  Legnica International Jewellery Festival Silver 2023.
Exhibition  10 Mar 2023 - 09 Apr 2023  Design Without Borders 2023.
2022:
Exhibition  09 Nov 2022 - 06 Dec 2022  TOUCH Exhibition in Poland.
Exhibition  05 Oct 2022 - 09 Oct 2022  TOUCH Exhibition in Bucharest and Warsaw.
Award giving  14 May 2022 - 14 May 2022  Legnica International Jewellery Competition 2022 Winners.
2021:
Exhibition  26 Sep 2021 - 06 Oct 2021  Shape of Nature 2021. Selected artist list announced.
2020:
Exhibition  19 Sep 2020 - 29 Nov 2020  JEWELS ON SALE at JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair 2020.
Fair  19 Sep 2020 - 29 Nov 2020  JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery & Objects Fair 2020.
2019:
2014:
Exhibition  22 Apr 2014 - 08 Jun 2014  Legnica Jewellery Festival Silver.
2013:
Exhibition  30 Apr 2013 - 30 Jun 2013  Presentations 2012 at Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER.

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Interview:  I'm fine / Help me. Interview with Jolanta Gazda. Klimt02Klimt02:  Barcelona,  2023
Book:  Shape of Nature. Sun, HermanChina Humanities Publishing House:  Hong Kong,  2022