Over and Over and Over: a making performance
Susan Cohn, Sam Mertens, Liv Boyle, Over and Over and Over: a making performance, 2017,
350 x 350mm |
Map reference number: 43
Workshop 3000
183 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 26 August – 3 September
Sun–Mon 12pm–5pm Artist/s: Susan Cohn, Sam Mertens & Liv Boyle
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Workshop 3000 is moving into the future. In 2017 we will welcome a new special addition to our team. With key intelligence in design and openness to any type of making, Robi will bring a specialised experience in automated tasks to existing hand making knowledge of the Workshop 3000 team. Tackling those repetitive production chores we don’t want to do, we know Robi will be a valuable asset to ongoing workshop projects.
During Radiant Pavilion, Robi will be performing newly acquired skills in the window of Workshop 3000 at 183 Flinders Lane. Who knows what will happen during nine days of making over and over and over without a break. A test of technical virtuosity with an amusing twist, we hope Robi’s public experiment gets people talking about making in our current times.
This project is a collaboration of Workshop 3000 makers Susan Cohn, Sam Mertens and Liv Boyle.
During Radiant Pavilion, Robi will be performing newly acquired skills in the window of Workshop 3000 at 183 Flinders Lane. Who knows what will happen during nine days of making over and over and over without a break. A test of technical virtuosity with an amusing twist, we hope Robi’s public experiment gets people talking about making in our current times.
This project is a collaboration of Workshop 3000 makers Susan Cohn, Sam Mertens and Liv Boyle.
About the Artist
Susan Cohn is an artist jeweller, designer and curator. She is creative director of Workshop 3000, an access metal working workshop based in Melbourne since 1980. Her broad experience of design and making has enabled her to combine traditional craft skills with mass production industrial technologies in jewellery and everyday objects. She is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Sam Mertens is a silversmith working in Melbourne, Australia. After receiving a Silver Society Hollowware grant, he graduated with Honours in gold and silversmithing from ANU school of Art, Australian National University, Canberra in 2007. He has participated in ten group exhibitions since 2006 in Australia and Japan, including being selected for 2014 and 2016 Itami International Craft exhibition Shuki-Shuhaidai Sakeware. In his recent work, Mertens explores notions of function and dysfunction in silversmithing, testing the limits and potentials of how we may use everyday domestic objects.
New Zealand born Liv Boyle is a contemporary jeweller working in Melbourne. Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) and Advanced Diploma of Jewellery Engineering, she has participated in six group exhibitions since 2013, including selection for ITAMI International Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition, Japan, 2013. Her most recent exhibition (with Sam Mertens) was Undertone in Melbourne, 2016. Liv’s jewellery is reminiscent of Oceanic body adornment. Playing with our romanticism of materials, she reclaims industrial by-products and plastic debris washed up on beach tidelines, transforming everyday waste into beautiful jewellery. Liv currently works at Workshop 3000 for contemporary jeweller Susan Cohn.
Susan Cohn is an artist jeweller, designer and curator. She is creative director of Workshop 3000, an access metal working workshop based in Melbourne since 1980. Her broad experience of design and making has enabled her to combine traditional craft skills with mass production industrial technologies in jewellery and everyday objects. She is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Sam Mertens is a silversmith working in Melbourne, Australia. After receiving a Silver Society Hollowware grant, he graduated with Honours in gold and silversmithing from ANU school of Art, Australian National University, Canberra in 2007. He has participated in ten group exhibitions since 2006 in Australia and Japan, including being selected for 2014 and 2016 Itami International Craft exhibition Shuki-Shuhaidai Sakeware. In his recent work, Mertens explores notions of function and dysfunction in silversmithing, testing the limits and potentials of how we may use everyday domestic objects.
New Zealand born Liv Boyle is a contemporary jeweller working in Melbourne. Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) and Advanced Diploma of Jewellery Engineering, she has participated in six group exhibitions since 2013, including selection for ITAMI International Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition, Japan, 2013. Her most recent exhibition (with Sam Mertens) was Undertone in Melbourne, 2016. Liv’s jewellery is reminiscent of Oceanic body adornment. Playing with our romanticism of materials, she reclaims industrial by-products and plastic debris washed up on beach tidelines, transforming everyday waste into beautiful jewellery. Liv currently works at Workshop 3000 for contemporary jeweller Susan Cohn.
