Robert Baines
Jeweller
Published: 25.07.2019
rmit.edu.auNecklace: Multiplicity 1, 2018-2019
Silver, electroplate, powder coat, lacquer
17 x 17.8 x 6 cm & 36.5 cm long with chain
Piece part of the memo Multiplicity at the exhibition Le Stanze del Possibile at Hannah Gallery.
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Necklace: Multiplicity 2, 2018-2019
Gold
12 x 19.5 x 5.8 cm & 32 cm long with chain
Piece part of the memo Multiplicity at the exhibition Le Stanze del Possibile at Hannah Gallery.
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Pendant: Perception 5, 2017
Silver, electroplate, lacquer, granulation construction.
7 x 9.4 x 1.2 cm
Photo by: Anton Jadrijevic
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Neckpiece: Perception, 2018
Silver, electroplate, lacquer.
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Neckpiece: Perception 3, 2018
Silver, electroplate, lacquer.
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Robert BainesBracelet: Yellow Giraffe, c. 2012
Sterling silver, powdercoat, electroplate, paint
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Ring: Five Rings, California (?), 1969
Chrome plated silver, stone (?), case, print, pen on paper.
15 × 24.2 × 21.5 cm
Photo by: Robert Baines
Detail
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Ring: Together Again, c. 1964 (?)
Gold, paper, mirror.
4 × 3.5 × 3.5 cm
Photo by: Garry Sommerfeld
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Bracelet: Courtly Love, West German (?), c. 1050-1150 (?)
Gold, silver, plastic.
8 × 7.7 × 5 cm
Photo by: Robert Baines
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Body piece: Leg Brace for Lloyd (Beverly Hills Small Animal Hospital), 2004 (?)
Plastic, silver, steel, leather, paint.
8 × 7.7 × 5 cm
Photo by: Robert Baines
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Neckpiece: Untitled, 2017
Silverpowder coatedd.
4 x 6 cm
Photo by: Robert Baines
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Brooch: Meaner than Yellow, 2008
Silver, powder coat, electroplate, paint.
12 x 12 x 7.5 cm
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Brooch: Compact Disc circa 2000, 2010
Silver, glass powder coat, electroplate, compact disc.
8 x 8 x 3.5 cm
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Brooch: Cosmos, 2014
750kt gold.
10.5 x 13 x 4.2 cm
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Brooch: Perception 4 and 5, 2015
Silver, powder coat, electroplate
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Bracelet: Car bracelet, 2009-2010
Silver electroplate, collected objects.
Photo by: Gary Sommerfield
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Brooch: Redder than Green, 2009
Silver, powder coat, paint, electroplate
6.3 x 12.3 x 9.3 cm
Property of the artist
Photo by Jeremy Dillon
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Brooch: Parrot, 2012
Silver, electroplated, powder coated, paint, found object
Herbert Hofmann Prize 2013
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Living Treasure: Master of Australian Craft, goldsmith and emeritus professor at RMIT University, Robert Baines has maintained an international profile with exhibitions, awards, lectures and publications for more than fifty years.
His works are in prestigious public collections in Great Britain, Germany, France, Poland, USA, New Zealand, and Australia.
Statement
Broadly I have made pieces that manifest a chosen subject. A fundamental condition is that jewelry captures human drama and in that is a wealth of possibilities. There is an endeavor to build a contemporary statement referencing cultural history. There are dangers in this strategy as the work could be hastily dismissed because of its seeming preoccupation with historicity.My primary interest is in the history of the goldsmith and the artifact that makes it manifest. This basically starts with Bronze Age gold technology and the jewelry meanings over that broad period of Greek Gold of the High Classical Era (which includes the Etruscan period in particular). Subsequent jewelry histories have their wonder and offer abundant potential subjects to “play with.” Historical jewelry is a social and political document that is available to research, reinterpret, and question its authenticity.
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