Tim Peel
Jeweller
Published: 15.08.2019
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5 new brooches from Tim's new series Landscape in Colour, an original poem presents with each piece as a further explanation.
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Brooch: Landscape in Colour #1, 2019
Silver, blackwood, synthetic golden sapphire, stainless steel, pigment ink.
8 x 1.5 x 4.5 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Landscape in Colour
When dawn is but a distant memory
Days fierce heat fades with Apollo’s demise
His ascent across Earth flat or round
Giving life and death to all around
With light from his fiery shield
Before cosmic cycles demand it yield
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Brooch: Landscape in Colour #2, 2019
Silver, gold, blue topaz, diamonds.
2.5 x 1.8 x 7.5 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Landscape in Colour
Churlish child of Adam and Eve
Believed not in stories of Poseidon
So proceeded to explore the sea
Rippled blue, tussled by breeze
Filled with bounty for he to seize
An angry trident risen
Permission was not given
Churlish child came to believe
But to a watery grave he’s gone
Below the seas dark and furious
To lay with souls of the curious
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Brooch: Landscape in Colour #3, 2019
Silver, blackwood, synthetic pink sapphire, stainless steel, pigment ink.
8 x 1.5 x 4.5 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Landscape in Colour
As Sol descends toward the horizon
His burning orb fades as it slips down low
To vivid pink from orange and intense yellow
Memories of Hibiscus, Petunia, Dahlia and Rhododendrons
Or was it Camellia and Rose, Peony or Impatiens
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Brooch: Landscape in Colour #4, 2019
Silver, gold, blackwood, rose quartz, diamond, stainless steel, pigment ink.
8 x 1.5 x 4 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Landscapes in Colour
Blushed with rose through air thick, humid
Selene’s pale chariot begins its celestial course
Making haste across the cosmos mighty
Chasing after errant illusive Cupid
Arcing higher upon nights passing hours
Till she passed intreat the path of Aphrodite
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Brooch: Landscape in Colour #7, 2019
Silver, blackwood, synthetic purple sapphire, stainless steel, pigment ink.
8 x 1.5 x 4.5 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Landscape in Colour
Landscape coloured of the wee hours
Bacchus slumbers upon a tree root
Steeped in copious purple fruit
Hades consumed in a dream
Of what was and could have been
Pan rest in a comic pose
Randomly twitching like this prose
All snortle a contented chorus
While I fumble with Roget
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Object: Too Precious #3, 2019
Silver, gold, sapphires, leather, scorched leaf.
15 x 34 x 0.7 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Too Precious
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Object: Too Precious #4, 2019
Silver, gold, sapphires, rubies, photograph.
7.5 x 3 x 6.8 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Too Precious
Reliquary
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Object: Too Precious #5, 2019
Silver, black sapphire, black diamond, white diamond, silk, baby teeth.
5.5 x 5.5 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Too Precious
Reliquary
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Object: Too Precious #5, 2019
Silver, black sapphire, black diamond, white diamond, silk, baby teeth.
5.5 x 5.5 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Too Precious
Detail view.
Reliquary
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Object: Too Precious #5, 2019
Silver, black sapphire, black diamond, white diamond, silk, baby teeth.
5.5 x 5.5 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Too Precious
Detail view.
Reliquary
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Object: Too Precious #1, 2019
Silver, black sapphire, black diamond, white diamond, silk, baby teeth.
5.5 x 5.5 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Too Precious
Reliquary
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Object: Too Precious #1, 2019
Silver, black sapphire, black diamond, white diamond, silk, baby teeth.
5.5 x 5.5 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Too Precious
Alternative view.
Reliquary
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Object: Too Precious #2, 2019
Silver, gold, Australian sapphires, citrine, melted bottle.
5.5 x 7.2 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Too Precious
Reliquary
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Brooch: The Old Harbour, 2017
Silver, gold, australian sapphires, rust.
3.5 x 1 x 7.5 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Precious Memories
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Pin: The Bluff, 2017
Silver, gold, emerald, beach pebble.
2 x 1 x 2 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Precious Memories
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Brooch: Vessel to Hold Memories of a Sister, 2017
Silver, pot shards, ruby.
4 x 1.3 x 6 cm
Photo by: Redfish Bluefish Photography
From series: Precious Memories
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Brooch: Untitled, 2018
Silver, gold, ametrine.
3 x 1.5 x 8 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
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Brooch: Untitled, 2018
Silver, gold, Australian sapphire, zircon.
2 x 1 x 7 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
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Brooch: Palm Cove, 2017
Silver, gold, tourmaline, topaz, beach pebbles.
3.5 x 1.6 x 5.2
Photo by: Tim Peel
Part of: Precious Memories
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Brooch: Untitled, 2018
Silver, tourmaline, driftwood.
2.8 x 3.3 x 11.5 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Wounded Nature
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Silver, pearls, driftwood, paint.
2.7 x 2 x 6.5 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
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Brooch: How was Paris?, 2017
Silver, gold, rubies, souvenir pins.
3.6 x 1.2 x 6 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Precious Memories
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Brooch: Bushfire Sunset, 2018
Silver, carnelian, granite.
1.5 x 3 x 1 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Precious Memories
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Pendant: Untitled, 2018
Silver, pearls, driftwood, paint.
13 x 2.5 x 30 cm
Photo by: Tim Peel
From series: Wounded Nature
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Tim Peel has maintained an almost 30 year jewellery career in Australia’s Yarra Valley after graduate studies in Gold & Silversmithing at Monash University. In that time his practice has grown from a drive to master traditional skills to an ongoing exploration of materials and colour and their ability to communicate ideas, concepts and a humanist connection. Peel now works from his own studio and gallery, Silvermist Studio, and is a Fellow of and the current President of the Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia.
Statement
I am a Gold and Silversmith with more than 30 years experience handcrafting both fine jewellery and art jewellery from my home studio and studio gallery in the Yarra Valley, Australia.Although my father tells of my making jewellery at the age of 4 years in his sculpture studio my formal studies began with jewellery making at both Secondary School and TAFE College, then a B.A. Craft (Gold & Silversmithing) at Monash University. This was later followed by Diamond Setting with Master Setter, Rex Steele-Merten and enamelling with multi award winner enamelist, Debbie Sheezel.
My work often combines the skills and techniques of the traditional fine jeweller with the palette a of contemporary art jewellery resulting in highly wearable art that reflects many of the dichotomies of a modern world. Wood, steel, rock and found object combined with silver, gold and gemstones opens up a whole new way of looking at jewellery were value is as much emphasised by meaningfulness and concept as it is by the skilled craftsmanship and precious materials.
Far from ignoring traditional materials and skills, I have developed a practice that comfortably embraces these techniques whilst striving for the greater cerebral depths of Contemporary and Art Jewellery as a means of engaging new audiences to think more critically about jewellery, how they wear it, and the world around them.
Since 2017 I have focused on the “Preciousness” of memories and the quintessentially human trait of collecting worthless objects that hold great value because of the memories we install in them. These works have recently resulted in a significant grant to explore works that commemorate the 10th anniversary of Black Saturday bush fires in Victoria, a major natural disaster that claimed the lives of 180 people on the 7th of February, 2009. These works will strive to further define what is truely valuable through the experiences of four women and their stories of that day. I will be looking at how communities of people changed their actions for the benefit of others rather than themselves by using the stories held within worthless object to reignite memories and conversations. Through the creation of precious metal reliquaries for these objects an easily understood emphasis will be placed on their history thus demonstrating how jewellery can be a conduit to positive meaningfulness.
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5 new brooches from Tim's new series Landscape in Colour, an original poem presents with each piece as a further explanation.
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