Face
Earring
1968 (made)
1968 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Jackie Binns (1945-2015) was a talented maker across a range of materials. Her training as a jeweller was at Central School of Art and Design and at the Royal College of Art where her M.A. was followed with a post-graduate fellowship. Later in her career she moved to basket making, an aspect of her work which is represented in the South East Arts Craft Collection at Hove Museum and Art Gallery.
This ‘Face’ pendant and earrings, of 18 carat gold and cloisonné enamel, was made around the time she was awarded her M.A. from the R.C.A. in 1968. The set is quirky, witty and very evocative of its time. It was exhibited at the V&A in 1973 in the exhibition The Craftsman’s Art (cat. no. 267), a mixed media exhibition which was, according to the V&A press release, ‘the first crafts exhibition for twenty years to be organised on a national scale. More than 500 objects are on show, the work of 225 craftsmen, from all over the United Kingdom’.
This ‘Face’ pendant and earrings, of 18 carat gold and cloisonné enamel, was made around the time she was awarded her M.A. from the R.C.A. in 1968. The set is quirky, witty and very evocative of its time. It was exhibited at the V&A in 1973 in the exhibition The Craftsman’s Art (cat. no. 267), a mixed media exhibition which was, according to the V&A press release, ‘the first crafts exhibition for twenty years to be organised on a national scale. More than 500 objects are on show, the work of 225 craftsmen, from all over the United Kingdom’.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Face (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Cloisonné enamel and gold |
| Brief description | One of a pair of earrings, enamelled gold, designed and made by Jackie Binns, England 1968 |
| Physical description | Each earring has a cloisonné enamel plaque decorated with an eye and eyebrow against an orange and brown ground within a circular gold frame. The frames hang from a small gold sphere with attached post which screws into a larger sphere to secure it when worn. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | unmarked |
| Credit line | Given by Polly Binns |
| Summary | Jackie Binns (1945-2015) was a talented maker across a range of materials. Her training as a jeweller was at Central School of Art and Design and at the Royal College of Art where her M.A. was followed with a post-graduate fellowship. Later in her career she moved to basket making, an aspect of her work which is represented in the South East Arts Craft Collection at Hove Museum and Art Gallery. This ‘Face’ pendant and earrings, of 18 carat gold and cloisonné enamel, was made around the time she was awarded her M.A. from the R.C.A. in 1968. The set is quirky, witty and very evocative of its time. It was exhibited at the V&A in 1973 in the exhibition The Craftsman’s Art (cat. no. 267), a mixed media exhibition which was, according to the V&A press release, ‘the first crafts exhibition for twenty years to be organised on a national scale. More than 500 objects are on show, the work of 225 craftsmen, from all over the United Kingdom’. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.29:1,2-2018 |
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| Record created | November 5, 2018 |
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