'Unnatural Tendencies'

Showing October 3rd - 21st   2011
'Unnatural Tendencies'
A jewellery cross-pollination by Lauren Simeoni & Melinda Young

You are warmly invited to meet Lauren and Melinda
at the opening, 5.30 - 7.30pm this Monday 3rd October
Australian jewellers Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young have been working together on their 'unnatural' jewellery project since 2008. United by a love of frippery and fakery and a shared aesthetic sensibility, they share a sketchbook and materials whilst enjoying the creative stimulation and fruits of a long-distance collaboration between their hometowns of Adelaide and Sydney.

For Unnatural Tendencies, Simeoni and Young have drawn inspiration from a new collection of shared materials and also from the subtle, unnatural shifts between the inner suburbs of Auckland, Adelaide and Sydney – the botany, architecture and sensibilities at once so similar, yet slightly strange. Many of the pieces are a response to a long walk through Auckland's urban nature, where they sensed a 'wildness' not present in Australia, this has imbued this collection of adventurous new work with a sense of lushness, density and risk – developed and made through an unnatural filter of time and distance, it now makes a return to the site of its germination.
Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young, 2011

*Check out on-line catalogue  fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/unnatural_tendencies.