Atta Gallery is holding “Pearl”, a group exhibition by 10 international material-based artists, until Sept 17.
On showcase are accessories and artistic items by five female British jewellers — Caroline Broadhead, Lin Cheung, Melanie Georgacopoulos, Maria Militsi and Frances Wadsworth Jones.
Initially brought together through their teaching at the Central Saint Martins BA Jewellery Design course, the five artists’ works span across different fields and tackle different subject matters, yet they all share a mutual fascination with the pearl.
The strength of this group, however, is the diversity of each individual’s ideas and approaches to a single subject matter. Their work explores new and innovative ways of working with the pearl, how it can be represented, whether that is through the manipulation of the material itself, the form it might take through referencing its…
