Oyster Concrete with Jute
Regular price $880.00 Save $-880.00Year: 2022
Material: Oyster shell and Hawkesbury river sand concrete, jute, urban foraged eucalyptus dye
Dimensions: 90 x 50 x 50 mm
About the Maker: Kyoko Hashimoto is a Japanese-born contemporary jeweller based in Adelaide, South Australia. Working across critical design and body adornment, her project explores ethical and aesthetic challenges to paradigms of material practice in art, craft, design and industry. She creates objects that address existential threats posed by globalised resource extraction – particularly for those materials that dominate 21st-century existence: plastic, concrete and fossil fuels. Advocating for new kinds of sensory engagement with materials, Kyoko positions her work as tools to open up discussion around objects that transition between exhibition, commercial and domestic spaces in relation to ecology and the body. Her work is part of the permanent collection at National Gallery of Victoria, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and Art Gallery of South Australia. Kyoko is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert in Sydney.
Photos: Courtesy the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney