| Artist Profile of Fran Allison |
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Fran Allison is a contemporary New Zealand jeweller. She is also a lecturer in jewellery at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland.
Her jewellery, which addresses ideas of re-formatting and past histories, takes on the form of flowers in this exhibition. On close examination they draw the viewer immediately to reminisce of long summer days in the garden, of making daisy chains, and of times gone by.
The inspiration for her work comes from many areas, including a fascination with the connotations associated with found and/or discarded objects. She cites Julian Schnabel: 'I work with things left over from other things' as a source for this exploration:
'My work at present consists of reformatted doilies, embroidered handkerchiefs, children's clothes and crockery. I like to use pre-existing objects in my work that come with an already established language. Then I like to mess with that reading in some way. The objects start off as decorative in one sense or in one environment and end up on the body as decorative jewellery pieces. A challenge for me is to reconfigure these 'found' fragments so that they still possess aspects of their original attractiveness.'
Please contact the gallery for further information on available work.
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Selected works of Fran Allison
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