Arts Festival Exhibition at Gallery 203

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For immediate release 1 October 1, 2007

Arts Festival Exhibition at Gallery 203

Photography and jewellery are linked in a joint exhibition by two Nelson artists opening at Gallery 203 on October 8.

Photographer Sarah Holman and jewellery maker Stella Chrysostomou both use close observation in their interpretive works.

Holman’s photographic studies Sap:seen vitality look at visual intensity. She says rather than taking what we see for granted, the images convey a seen richness of pattern and memory.

“What we see and how we see it can heighten the experience we have, be it of human interactions or our relationships with natural and built environments,” Holman says. “Photography for me is a way of conveying those feelings to other people and a way of recording my own memories.”

Chrysostomou’s work, under the title A Month in May, is based on a jewellery collection that investigates form and identity - each of the 31 brooches is an imitation of a photographic image taken on the 31 days of May this year.

“Escaping the systems of recognition and identity, I have isolated the images to create objects based on pure observation,” Chrysostomou says. “The unexpected process, materials and techniques challenge notions of jewellery making and reject ideas of value and preciousness.”

The exhibitions run simultaneously for three weeks at Gallery 203 in Trafalgar St, Nelson from Monday 8 October 2007 during the Nelson Arts Festival.

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