ROSE LI CAI GAMBLE

BA (FINE ART) 20232024 EXHIBITION

3 Sept

ARTIST STATEMENT

ROSE LI CAI GAMBLE

Quietude is a floating wall installation, the work documents a play on light through an array of minute holes and enamel Plique à Jour windows, across a grid of mild steel plates. The work aims to spark curiosity and intrigue, as elements of the pattern within the work will appear missing or will solely be viewable by close inspection only. Quietude explores the intangible concept of the “Other” and the divine energy that surrounds and is channelled within us. The intrigue within Quietude is that a questioning is provoked because there is no one true representation of this divine energy or “Other” therefore any interpretation can be singly denoted to be of personal beliefs and lived experiences. Quietude portrays techniques for accessing intangible sites, acting as a physical vehicle for subconscious energy. Quietude offers a material translation of a transcendental world inside my subconscious, incorporating themes of Spirituality and Religion with abstract art, incorporated within a jewellery context. Quietude is comprised of 16 mild steel plates, each plate embedded with a series of fine drill holes, olive green Plique a Jour windows or enamel chenier settings.

Rose Gamble is a Gold and Silversmithing artist that investigates the conceptual boundaries of what is jewellery through object making and the creation of site- specific and public artworks. Following an in-depth research archive which delved into the examination and refinement of the enamelling technique Plique à Jour, Rose produced a series of object works titled Public Plique à Jour. The series questions traditional contexts of jewellery, pushing notions of preciousness and blurring jewellery’s conventional purpose of wearability. The ‘jewellery objects’ within the series provoke a strong material dialogue between site and work, creating an inherent connection between architectural form and jewellery. Rose’s practise has spanned to the explorative nature of site-specificity, particularly through the creation of the research archive and final series.

@rose3studio