Carina Shoshtary, The Secret Keepers (Blue II), 2017, graffiti, lotus seed pods, silver, glass, 13,3 cm x 8,5 cm x 2,8 cm. Photo: Attai Chen

Karma Chroma

Carina Shoshstary (DE)

7– 18 September 

Mon– Sat 11am-5pm 

(OPENING)

Sat 7 September, 5-7pm

at 

Bini Gallery 

62 Smith St 
Collingwood 3066 

Carina Shoshtary, Multiclavula 4, 2017, 14,4 cm x 16,5 cm x 3,3 cm, Graffiti, sea shells, glass, silver. Photo: Carina Shoshtary

I describe myself as a kind of contemporary hunter-gatherer as I make my jewellery pieces from materials I find in my immediate surroundings. My recent works are created from completely opposed materials. On the one hand, I use graffiti paint, scraped from a heavily sprayed wall in the city. On the other hand, I include materials I found while wandering about in the natural environment. What they have in common for me is that they contain a secret tale, which desires investigation. In this process the material is being thoroughly transformed, the source cannot be identified anymore even though some significant characteristics remain. My jewellery pieces may appear like artifacts of a past civilization, fossils from another planet or the ornaments of fabled beings.

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Carina Shoshtary, The Secret Keepers (Silver), 2016, graffiti, lotus sea pods, glass, silver, stainless steel, 6,6 cm x 7,3 cm x 2,6 cm. Photo: Mirei Takeuchi

(ABOUT THE ARTISTS)
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Carina Shoshtary was born in 1979 in Augsburg, Germany, and is of German and Iranian descent. She trained as a goldsmith in Neugablonz, Germany, from 2001 to 2004 and studied jewellery under Professor Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, from 2006 to 2012. Her work was exhibited internationally in galleries and museums including the Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt, Germany, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, the Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, England, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, USA, Ra Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Atta Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. Her work is in the public collections of the Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden, the International Design Museum, Munich, Germany, the V&A, London, England, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. In 2012 she was awarded the Bavarian State Prize for Emerging Designers and the Upper Bavarian Prize for Applied Arts. In 2017 she won a project grant for fine arts of Munich.