Exhibitions in particular at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet in Skärhamn, DesignTorget in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg and Form / Design Center in Malmö.
Lottie Turner has trained, among others, with Sandy Swirnoff and is the only one in Sweden who has mastered these unique techniques of producing jewelry that can only be described as works of art.
“Once upon a time…
Sandy (Swirnoff) brought delicious beads, thread and needles with her from “over there”. In the hotel room, tired after having walked up and down Amsterdam's narrow canal streets, she asked if I wanted to learn American Indian Beading.
Taking this knowledge with me to Sweden in 1995, I first made jewelry for friends and acquaintances. But Mary Heid, the woman behind the now closed down shop Röda Tråden in Malmö, persuaded me to take the jewelry to the Form / Design Center.
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| Jordie Turner, Malmö / Los Angeles |
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2007 - 2009
Brooks Institute of Photography - Commercial/Advertising, Santa Barbara, Kalifornien.
From 2009 Studio manager, David LaChapelle Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Over the past six months, Jordie Turner has worked with such clients as Maybach, Ed Hardy, Lady Gaga, Pamela Anderson, Pharell Williams, Amanda Lepore, Rolling Stone Magazine, Shotz Magazine, Pepsi and many more. This is part of his daily routine as studio manager and photo assistant to one of the world’s most successful photographers and directors, David LaChapelle.
http://jt.imagery.com
About Jordie Turner’s work:
”Jordie Turner paints his dreams with the camera’s help. His world is surreal, full of color and follows no rules. In the eye of the beholder his pictures can be perceived both as offensive and amazing all at the same time.
His sources of inspiration are not surprisingly creations by people such as David LaChapelle, Joel Peter Witkin, James Jean, Misha Gordin and David Lynch. To take his place among the ranks of traditional advertising and art photography is nothing we should expect from Jordie Turner. His vision is another.
He treads his own path, in the opposite direction…”
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In London, where I had moved in 1998 to work as a nurse, I sold my jewelry at Greenwich Market and in the gift shop at St. Martin’s Hotel.
For centuries, people have adorned themselves in ornaments made of beads and I know that everyone at some time has reason to wear them. Each individual design has an innovative and highly imaginative design, which includes the past, encompasses the present and alludes to the future. Different combinations of contrasting colours in a piece of jewellery reflect the balance between tension and simplicity that I am trying to create.
A flat beading technique is used, where the glass beads are strung on beeswax polyester thread, one at a time, and attached in a front and back direction, thus forming a band of pearls. I apply peyote and square stitch with imported Japanese Miyuki Glass Delica and Antique beads.”
Lottie Turner
April 2010
”I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads…”
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| Sandy Swirnoff, Minneapolis/San Diego |
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American artist Sandy Swirnoff began her fiber work with classes at the Shepherdess in San Diego, California. She was determined to learn more, so she combed through used bookstores for old 1960s-70's macrame books. Today Sandy's work has evolved to include a variety of styles and materials. A piece of jewelry may be organic and free flowing in design, and feature antique glass, blown glass discs or original silver beads, or the designs may be contemporary with geometric patterns or oriental designs.
Sandy has one of her pieces in the permanent collection at The Museum of Art and Design in New York City.
http://www.swirnoff.com
”I have been creating fiber jewelry for 25 years. I have always been attracted to organic materials, textures, and the beauty of nature. What I find the most satisfying is combining fiber with stones, old glass, silver, petrified wood, and weaving it all together in jewelry designs. My work is free-form, and I find an exciting challenge in knotting the fiber to stretch in interesting new shapes, trying to get from one place to other in an attractive and graceful way.”
Sandy Swirnoff
April 2010 |
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