Hinterlands II
Necklace
2009 (made)
2009 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Beth Legg’s jewellery captures a bleak beauty and evokes a landscape that is wild and windswept. The outlines are stark, but the details softened by her keen observation of abstract patterns within nature. She explains ‘The remote environment I come from in the far north coast of Scotland has strongly influenced the work I produce. I have always been fascinated by the hinterlands and quiet edges of places – a bleak remoteness which can be both beautiful and melancholic’. This necklace was made also in response to the landscape of Nova Scotia, Canada which Beth Legg had visited on a residency the previous year.
This necklace is one of forty-five pieces of jewellery given to the V&A from the collection of the late Louise Klapisch.
This necklace is one of forty-five pieces of jewellery given to the V&A from the collection of the late Louise Klapisch.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Hinterlands II (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Oxidised silver, rutilated quartz and gold |
| Brief description | Necklace of oxidised silver, quartz and gold, designed and made by Beth Legg, Scotland, 2009 |
| Physical description | A long necklace consisting of slender tubular sections of oxidised silver with faceted drops of rutilated quartz (black rutiles) projecting at intervals. There are two strands of the silver sections at the front with six paired quartz drops placed above a small gold bead, and a single strand at the back with seventeen drops more closely spaced and graduated in colour with the clearer, less rutilated stones towards the back. Two oval discs join front and back, decorated with a matting of narrow strips at the front and raised swirling outlines on the back. From each disc a twig form with buds ascends. |
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| Credit line | The Louise Klapisch Collection, given by Suzanne Selvi |
| Summary | Beth Legg’s jewellery captures a bleak beauty and evokes a landscape that is wild and windswept. The outlines are stark, but the details softened by her keen observation of abstract patterns within nature. She explains ‘The remote environment I come from in the far north coast of Scotland has strongly influenced the work I produce. I have always been fascinated by the hinterlands and quiet edges of places – a bleak remoteness which can be both beautiful and melancholic’. This necklace was made also in response to the landscape of Nova Scotia, Canada which Beth Legg had visited on a residency the previous year. This necklace is one of forty-five pieces of jewellery given to the V&A from the collection of the late Louise Klapisch. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.37-2014 |
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| Record created | June 11, 2014 |
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