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On display at V&A Dundee
Scottish Design Galleries, V&A Dundee

All my own words and thoughts

Brooch
2015 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jonathan Boyd uses lost wax casting incorporating digital technology, ‘increasingly complex casting systems using hundreds of sprues which allow for very fine and detailed casts’. His jewellery takes language – either single letters akin to printers’ type or spiralling words and phrases - as its main focus. His recent work has started to incorporate photographic images of Glasgow’s urban environment, exploring ‘how language and environment overlap and the effect modern advertising and information overload has on our daily reality’.

This brooch ‘ALL MY OWN WORDS AND THOUGHTS’ unites the two strands of language and environment, the photographic image reinforced by the creation of letters adapted from familiar symbols of branding and advertisements.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleAll my own words and thoughts (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Silver with applied photographic image and cast detailing
Brief description
Brooch 'All my own words and thoughts', silver, designed and made by Jonathan Boyd, Scotland 2015
Physical description
Flat, circular brooch on which a photographic image of a streetscene has been printed in black and white, and from which (in the lower right quarter) protrude three cast rings of what resemble extruded printers' type. The letters, adaptations of ones familiar from branding, spell out in rings 'all my own words and thoughts'. The silver is oxidised except for the printed image and the surfaces of the letters. A double pin attaches horizontally at the back.
Dimensions
  • Height: 66mm
  • Width: 67mm
  • Height: 32mm
Marks and inscriptions
all my own words and thoughts KFC / BOX MEAL / BACK FOR CHRISTMAS (hallmarked: JMB, lion passant, 925, leopard's head, q)
Credit line
Given by Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner
Summary
Jonathan Boyd uses lost wax casting incorporating digital technology, ‘increasingly complex casting systems using hundreds of sprues which allow for very fine and detailed casts’. His jewellery takes language – either single letters akin to printers’ type or spiralling words and phrases - as its main focus. His recent work has started to incorporate photographic images of Glasgow’s urban environment, exploring ‘how language and environment overlap and the effect modern advertising and information overload has on our daily reality’.

This brooch ‘ALL MY OWN WORDS AND THOUGHTS’ unites the two strands of language and environment, the photographic image reinforced by the creation of letters adapted from familiar symbols of branding and advertisements.
Collection
Accession number
M.3-2016

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Record createdNovember 24, 2015
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