The I-Heart collection at Metalab in Surry Hills, February 2008, was a new collection of work with a very personal approach, a study of the heart and our various emotional states of being. Metaphors of happiness, loss, excitement, pain and love are evident. Each piece represents a portrait of life’s experiences.
The I-Heart exhibition was a celebration and collection of forty pieces of work, mainly brooches, focusing on the heart. Sondi has confessed a love/hate relationship with hearts, as she was born on St Valentine's Day. Tongue in cheek, she describes herself as being born with a silver heart in her mouth.
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The work is fabricated using traditional silversmithing techniques and fashioned into wearable hollow constructed objects. Their sensuously coloured surfaces have been filed, beaten and oxidized into a layer likened to that of a painting, only using metal as a material. Using a bi-metal of sterling silver and 24K gold, the top layers are worked into rich surfaces of texture and colour. “This work is 50% controllable and 50% abstract in nature”.
Photography by VANESSA SAMUELS 0411 986 402.
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