Michelle Kraemer
Jeweller
Published: 02.06.2021
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Michelle Kraemer was born in Luxembourg. After obtaining a degree in Three-Dimensional Design at the University of Portsmouth, England, she continued her studies in Contemporary Jewellery at Alchimia, Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence, Italy with Prof. Manfred Bischoff and Prof. Ruudt Peters. Since 2009 she is living and working in Vienna, Austria, as a member of Atelier STOSSIMHIMMEL, Studio for Contemporary Jewellery, and continuously takes part in exhibitions and projects, abroad as well as in Austria.
Statement
I find inspiration in things that we can see but are somehow unobtainable, untouchable, unreachable. Clouds, outer space, natural phenomena, but also natural textures and organic shapes. I need to materialize my inner landscape into my own imagined reality.My process is very intuitive. I start by working directly in the material, mainly balsa wood, a lightweight and transformable material, with a rough idea on my mind. Forms emerge and evolve spontaneously while shaping the wood. Then layer by layer of pigments and varnish they grow until they mutate into something else. The material, for me, is inspiration and challenge at the same time. It is transformed in such a way that it changes completely, until it becomes something else entirely, until it becomes jewellery…
Prismatica series
The inspiration for this series lies in the natural world, within the iridescent colours found in insects, birds and fish, but also the shimmer of a soap bubble or an oil puddle.
After almost a year of uncertainty I picked up my carving tools again and just started cutting, digging and sanding away the balsa wood for hours in an almost meditative state. Followed by hours of applying layers upon layers of varnish and finding the exact right moment to rub in the colourful pigment so it sticks to the not quite dry varnish.
Are the colours attracting attention to fight invisibility or are they putting on a show, to hide a darkness underneath?
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