Nora Kovats
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Published: 20.01.2021
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Necklace: Darkflock, 2020
Oxidized silver, freshwater pearls, black nylon.
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Necklace: Feuerriff, 2020
Enamel on copper, silver (oxidized), carnelian, ruby, nylon, steel wire, large faceted smokey quartz beads.
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Brooch: Poeletjie I, 2020
Vitreous enamel on copper, sterling silver back, steel needle, faceted citrine, prehnite drops.
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Brooch: Poeletjie II, 2020
Vitreous enamel on sterling silver, sterling silver back, steel needle, faceted prehnite drop.
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Earrings: Tilia I, 2020
Vitreous enamel on copper, sterling silver hooks, steel wire, citrine-smokey-quartz drops, peridot, pyrite, green garnet, 18ct gold wire accents, nylon.
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Brooch: Memorabilia I, 2020
Sterling silver (oxidized), enamel on copper, steel wire, black baroque pearl.
4.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm
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From series: Memorabilia
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Brooch: Memorabilia II, 2020
Sterling silver (oxidized), enamel on copper, steel wire, black baroque pearl.
7 x 4.5 x 3 cm
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From series: Memorabilia
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Brooch: Memorabilia III, 2020
Sterling silver (oxidized), enamel on silver, steel wire, black baroque pearl.
9 x 5 x 3 cm
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From series: Memorabilia
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Neckpiece: Reef, 2020
Enamel on copper, oxidized sterling silver, freshwater pearls, steel wire, citrine drops, rutile quartz.
Length: 52 cm. Largest element: Ø 3.5 cm
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From series: Reef Collection
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Brooch: Pomegranate Fantasy, 2019
Enamel on copper, sterling silver, ruby, steel pin.
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Ring: Algae, 2019
Enamel on copper.
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Brooch: Ovum eines Lindwurms, 2019
Enamel on copper, sterling silver (oxidized), steel wire, baroque pearl.
6 x 6 x 4.5 cm
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From series: Elementargeister
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Brooch: Ovum einer Sylphe, 2019
Enamel on copper, sterling silver, steel wire, baroque pearl.
5.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm
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From series: Elementargeister
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Pendant: Burnt Time, 2019
Enamel, copper, sterling silver (partially oxidized), cultured pearls (partially burnt), nylon, onyx.
9 x 7 x 4.5 cm
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Neckpiece: Schlaraffenland, 2018
Enamel on copper, sterling silver, nylon, steel wire, moss agate, black freshwater pearls, pyrite.
Length: 48 cm. Largest element: 6.5 x 4 cm
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Earrings: Botanist's Dream on a Friday Night, 2018
Enamel on silver and copper, 14ct gold, 18ct gold, green and red garnets.
6 x 2.5 cm
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Pendant: Wintergarten, 2016-2018
Enamel on copper, 14 ct gold, sterling silver, carnelian, tourmaline, quartz, garnet, zoisite, iolite, steel wire.
Pendant: 4.5 x 3 x 4 cm
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From series: Wintergarten
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Pendant: Fragmentoskop, 2015-2018
Enamel on copper, oxidized sterling silver, citrine.
6 x 5.5 cm
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Bowl: Sieb für Ängste, 2018
Sterling silver.
7 x 7 x 4 cm
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Object: Phoenix, 2017
Copper, enamel, brass, air plant (tillandsia), carnelian, rose quartz, agate, nylon.
18 x 6 x 7.5 cm
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From series: Phoenix Trilogy
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Neckpiece: Phoenix, 2017
Enamel, copper, sterling silver (oxidized), garnets, carnelian, nylon.
Length: 46 cm. Largest elemet: 3 x 3.5 cm
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From series: Phoenix Trilogy
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Object: Pomegranate Fantasy II, 2016-2017
Enamel on copper, Datura stramonium seed pod, pyrite, carnelian, nylon, watercolour and graphite on Fabriano paper.
21 x 21 cm
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From series: Pomegranate Collection
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Object: Split Pomegranate, 2017
Enamel on copper, brass, silver, pyrite, carnelian, grey freshwater pearls, garnet, quartz, nylon.
6 x 7 cm
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From series: Pomegranate Collection
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Brooch: Pomegranate Fantasy I, 2015 - 2016
Enamel on copper, brass, sterling silver, paint, 18ct gold wire, steel wire, pink tourmalines, black diamonds.
8 x 9 x 3 cm
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From series: Pomegranate Collection
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Object: Schlaraffenland, 2016
Enamel on copper, sterling silver, 18ct gold, black pearls, garnet (cut and uncut), carnelian, pyrite, aquamarine, quartz, pink tourmaline, nylon.
18 x 20 x 17 cm
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From series: Pomegranate Collection
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Earrings: Spatter, 2016
Enamel, copper, 18ct gold, citrine, carnelian, garnet.
3.5 x 2.5 x 4 cm
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From series: Pomegranate Collection
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Object: A Conscious Garden, 2016
Enamel, Copper, Silver, Gem, Nylon
11 x 15 cm
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Nora Kovats is a contemporary jewellery designer, illustrator, writer and botanical enthusiast from South Africa. After completing a Bachelor’s Degree in Contemporary Jewellery Design and a Master’s in Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University, she began to establish herself as a jewellery artist specializing in contemporary enamelwork. In 2016, Nora relocated to Berlin, where she lives and works now, exhibiting both in Germany and internationally on a regular basis.
Nora acts as an ambassador for the hand-crafted. She sincerely believes that a way towards a positive future for humankind is through promoting creative expression and inspiring the act of imagining in others.
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As an ‘identity-hopper’, both South-African and European, I am interested in the way stories, layered over each other countless times, construct how humans think about themselves. Identities are infinitely complex and fragmented compositions - overlapping, fragile and fluid, yet so powerfully definitive. I attempt to represent this idea visually in the form of complicated, multi-layered structures in my jewellery and watercolour paintings: stories-in-stories-in-stories. I am particularly fascinated by boundaries. Can one even say precisely where one entity ends and another start? The closer you look, the more difficult drawing a clear line becomes. At a microlevel, boundaries become pixelated, see-through; holes open up to porous membranes that permit a glimpse beyond.My work is largely botanically inspired, perhaps influenced by my childhood in South Africa. Gardens can be metaphors for identities, always growing, evolving, spilling over their boundaries. The image of the garden unites the desire to organize and discipline nature - that need for boundaries - with the equally human urge to be unconstrained, free, to break through boundaries.
Fire – heating metal and enamelling – is my language of creating. I am drawn to enamelling as a technique because of its uniqueness and its seductive possibility for spontaneity, dictated by the firing process. My method is becoming more experimental as I am growing in my practice, savouring the burns and scars of this haphazard process. Enamel dust is thrown at the metal almost violently, layer upon layer, then ground off again, scraped, colours bleeding into one another, bruised, fired over again until I achieve that mottled brightness fringed with the burn. I love the immediacy and the rhythm of this process; I breathe it when I work. Yet it cannot be completely impulsive, there are natural laws to be obeyed, melting temperatures and properties of metals to consider, the language of the colours to respect. Enamelling is the marriage of something wild and untameable with an ordered, measured, law-abiding other.
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