Yesterday I went to a beautiful jewellery exhibition/display by Anna Tham in Oxford, she makes jewellery and objets d'art from things she finds and vintage jewellery.
The pieces themselves are stunning, really medieval and chunky and it was a joy to wonder around and examine the pieces.
The only thing I found dissatisfying was the complete lack of information. I found out about the exhibit when I was looking on a local What's On page; it was in The Vaults Cafe in town and when we got there there was no poster, no notices, no nothing to tell that there was something on. We spent 10 minutes wandering around the complex trying to find it until we went into the cafe to ask and saw the display cases on the wall.
I wanted to know more about the artist, where she came from, her ideas, what she had done before but apart from a couple of postcards firmly stuck to the wall there was nothing, no cards, leaflets, bio or even names to the pieces. I know bios and things are a pain to write out, I've done enough to know that but some information is important, you can't just pop things in a cabinet and leave them to do all the work.
The pieces themselves are stunning, really medieval and chunky and it was a joy to wonder around and examine the pieces.
The only thing I found dissatisfying was the complete lack of information. I found out about the exhibit when I was looking on a local What's On page; it was in The Vaults Cafe in town and when we got there there was no poster, no notices, no nothing to tell that there was something on. We spent 10 minutes wandering around the complex trying to find it until we went into the cafe to ask and saw the display cases on the wall.
I wanted to know more about the artist, where she came from, her ideas, what she had done before but apart from a couple of postcards firmly stuck to the wall there was nothing, no cards, leaflets, bio or even names to the pieces. I know bios and things are a pain to write out, I've done enough to know that but some information is important, you can't just pop things in a cabinet and leave them to do all the work.