Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Lincoln
Transplantation: a sense of place and culture
Context
Cherry is both curator and a featured artist in this exhibition of contemporary narrative jewellery which explores the issue of cultural transplantation between foreign cultures.
Research resides within the historical, personal, and family investigations undertaken by each artist, six British and six Australian, into their own experiences of cultural transplantation, and in Cherry’s analysis of the phenomenon.
Insights
Each artist articulated the notion of cultural transplantation via the creation of a small collection of jewellery and artifacts created as a result of personal, cultural and historical research. The curator believes that it is possible to explain such ideas via the medium of small portable works of art more effectively than in any other medium, these portable works of art serving as metaphors for the act of transplantation itself.
The research was shared through the exhibition tour of sixteen public arts venues in England and Australia.
The exhibition has been reviewed in Klimt02, AJF (Art Jewelry Forum, Craft Arts International and several local media outlets related to each exhibition venue. There is an accompanying catalogue co-edited and art directed by the curator.
A professional consultancy has undertaken an evaluation of the project, an interim report being provided at the end of the English tour. By May 2013 when the English tour had been completed just under 27,000 visitors had seen Transplantation. A final report will be made when the Australian tour has been completed.
Great Britain:
? The National Centre for Craft and Design; The Collection, Lincoln; Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool; Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton; Crafts Study Centre, Farnham; Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey.
Australia:
? Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Charles Sturt University; Webb Gallery at Queensland College of Art - Griffith University; Macquarie University Art Gallery; Craft ACT; Craft Victoria; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Cowra Regional Gallery; Bunbury Regional Art Gallery; Gallery Central.
