Klimt02: Draper , Gemma jewelry design unique...

Barcelona, Spain

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Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 1 2009
Copper, enamel, acrilyc

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 2 2009
Acrilyc

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 3 2009
Copper, enamel, acrilyc, polymer clay, paint

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 4 2009
Copper, enamel, acrilyc, polymer clay, paint

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 5 2009
Copper, enamel, polymer clay, paint

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 6 2009
Polymer clay, paint, quartz

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 7 2009
Copper, enamel, acrilyc, polymer clay, paint

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 8 2009
Acrilyc, polymer clay, paint

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 9 2009
Acrilyc, polymer clay, paint

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 10 2009
Copper, enamel, acrilyc, wengue, stone

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 11 2009
Copper, enamel, polymer clay, paint, ebony

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 12 2009
Polymer clay, paint, acrilyc, glass

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 13 2009
Copper, enamel, polymer clay, paint

Gemma Draper
Object: Apertura 14 2009
Acrilyc, found box

Installation of Apertura exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum

Installation of Apertura exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum

Installation of Apertura exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum

Gemma Draper
Brooch: E is for Blossom 2008
Painted wood, nickel silver, sterling silver, copper, enamel, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: S is for Union 2008
Copper, enamel, wood, sterling silver, silk, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: U is for Bridal Bed 2008
Wood, brass, sterling silver

Gemma Draper
Brooch: B is for Increase 2008
Copper, enamel, brass, acrilyc, sterling silver

Gemma Draper
Brooch: R is for exhuberance 2008
Copper, enamel, acrilyc, brass, nickel silver, silk, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: T is for Thalamus 2008
Copper, enamel, amethyst quartz, sterling silver, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: R is for Excess 2008
Acrilyc, brass, nickel silver, sterling silver, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: I is for Abundance 2008
Copper, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, brass, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: D is for Growth 2008
Wood, brass, sterling silver, optical lent,steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: G is for lustful 2008
Copper, enamel, nickel silver, red aventurine quartz, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: P is for Hotbed 2008
Copper, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, mirror, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: R is for Lair 2008
Copper, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, mirror, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: A is for Den 2008
Copper, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, mirror, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: E is for Fullness 2008
Wood, enamel, nickel silver, sterling silver, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: E is for plural 2008
Copper, enamel, acrilyc, glass beads, nickel silver, sterling silver, steel wire

Gemma Draper
Brooch: 44 2008
Copper, enamel, magnets

Gemma Draper
Brooch: cut and birth 2006
Horn, opal beads, pink quartz beads, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: that’s a soft signal 2006
Horn, quartz, glass beads, mother-of-pearls beads, silver, steel
Brooch-necklace

Gemma Draper
Brooch: the silence I 2006
Horn, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: several ways to say it 2006
Horn, marble, glass beads, silver, steel
Brooch-necklace

Gemma Draper
Brooch: the silence II 2006
Horn, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: slow joints 2006
Horn, quartzite, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: sweet joints 2006
Horn, marble, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: soft joints 2006
Quartzite, horn, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: quite long väli II 2007
Painted wood, quartz, oxidise silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: white väli 2006
Painted wood, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: tactile väli 2006
Painted wood, silver, gold, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: past väli 2006
Painted wood, plastic coated wood, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: white (and this little black) visible väli 2006
Painted wood, marble, pearls, calcite beads, onyx beads, oxidise silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: ongoing spring 2007
Painted wood, calcite, glass beads, oxidise nickel silver, silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: mourning of that beauty 2007
Painted wood, onyx, onyx beads, thread, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: several joints signals or one plain and dark trophy 2007
Horn, quartz, gold, oxidised silver, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: hidden joints or one private and curve trophy 2007
Painted wood, smoked quartz, steel

Gemma Draper
Brooch: initial distance (almost apparent) 2007
Painted wood, quartz, glass beads, silver, steel

Statement

Apertura

How to name the objects that are completed by the experience they generate,
if that experience includes its own oddness (and its own celebration)? ? 
object-vehicle
object-bridge
object-tool
object-clown ?  ?How to draft a theory with a bundle of wishful exceptions?
And that will remain open, now and here.



Parties under bridges

On the excessive plural
The work I now present comes from my last series “cordial changes”, devoted mostly to develop what happened with joining two different and cut bodies or shapes.

Therefore, the starting point of this new work has been a kind of enchantment before two arising elements which kept me fascinated. Now, what I now try to do is going a bit further beyond this so powerful presence.

To this purpose, the first tool I used was repeating again and again this dual figure. This repetition became the first element of my new work: 44, a wall piece made out of some forty four twin enamelled drawn brooches. I t is to me a sample repertoire, examples without theory.

As a sort of a projection of this pieces, an excessive reflex, new corporeal pieces appear. They grow as a kind of three-dimensional unfolding of this formula: 1 + 1 = 3. This excess applies either to their shape, volume or colour. Also, the material and the finishing out of the pieces tell about real or fake shine and gold.

As a soft reverberation of the 44 elements, there are also a number of drawings which intend to portray a languid and lateral light. This corpus can be seen as an evanescent dreaming of the same issue.

Gemma Draper
(March, 2008)


Gemma Draper / ”Cordial Changes”, 2006

Undressing the guests
The outer parts of the objects often give a wrong idea. True essence often flows by working in depth.
Three-dimensional spaces offer this possibility, and to feel the layers of a natural material introduce the idea of change as an inevitable mate.

To heal and to fix are an under-line in Gemma Draper’s new pieces. A cut element cannot be read in the same way as it was before. Stone, horn and wood assume in these works their new condition, where a deficiency quality is now seen as a precious reason to be.
To assume nudity allows the possibility of hosting new ways of dialogue. In this case guests don’t replace or fill the missing elements, but fulfill them in new and unexpected ways.

Javier Moreno Frías 

CV

Gemma Draper, Barcelona, 1971

During this academic year my address will be:
Cranbrook Academy of Art
39221 Woodward Avenue
P.O. Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-0801

Education
2007-09 Master in Fine Arts. Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bloomfield Hills, MI. US.
1999-03 Graduate in Plastic Arts and Design | Major: Jewellery. Massana School. Barcelona.
1997-99 Artistic Jewellery. Llotja School. Barcelona.
1992-97 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

Public collections
Rotasa Foundation, Mill Valley, CA (USA) | CODA Museum. Apeldoorn, NL | Young Talent Collection. Françoise van den Bosch Foundation. NL | Muzeum Ceského ráje v. Turnov. (Czequia)

Prizes and Awards
2008 Study abroad award. Generalitat de Catalunya. Award for artistic creation for the project Excessive Plural. Generalitat de Catalunya. | Award for artists traveling abroad. Institut Ramon Llull. Generalitat de Catalunya. | Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, New York | Robert H. Daisley Memorial. Cranbrook Merit Scholarship | Annual Scholarship Awards & Exhibition. Detroit Artists Market. | SNAG Endowment Honorable Mention.
2007 Award for artistic research for the project Healing Cuts. Generalitat de Catalunya.
2005 Award for artists traveling abroad. Institut Ramon Llull. Generalitat de Catalunya.
2003 Scholarship Carta Blanca-Any del disseny for the project “The body of this jewel”. Diputación de Barcelona and FAD | Prizes ARTFAD. Jury’s special mention.
2001 Prizes Enjoia’t. First prize-Installation on the body.

Solo exhibitions
2008: Parties under bridges (part 2). Wittenbrink Zeigt Schmuck project. Munich. | Parties under bridges. Galerie Rob Koudijs. Amsterdam.
2006: cordial changes. Galleria Norsu. Helsinki.
2005: bliss-a?-bliss. Galeria Al65. Vilanova i la Geltru?. Barcelona.
2004: aflordepiel. Galeria Alea. Barcelona. 

Group exhibitions
2009: Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu. Hawaii.
2008: winter, Platina Gallery, Stockholm | JUST MUST, Great Guildhouse, Tallinn | Hand to Hand, MUDAC, Lausanne | COLLECT, Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Detroit Artists Market Scholarship and Exhibition Program: Cranbrook.
2007: SOFA Fair Chicago. (US) | Dual Exhibition. Ornamentum Gallery. Hudson, NY. (US) | Think Tank 04 Symposium: "Gift“ | Spanish contemporary jewellery. Galeria Rantapaja. Lappeenranta. | New concepts, new languages, new gallery.Klimt02 Gallery. Barcelona | New Horizons. Art Gallery Rob Koudijs. Amsterdam (Holland) | Giolleria Contemporanea. Oratorio di San Rocco. Padova (Italy) | Schmuck’07. 59th International Trade Fair. Munich (Germany)
2006: Francoise van den Bosch Foundation.Contemporaries and young talents.CODA Museum. Apeldoorn | Johalria contemporanea. Pedras e Pêssegos. Porto | BUE-BOG-BCN gestos sobre el cuerpo. CCEBA. Buenos Aires | Group show of work from Barcelona. Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h. Montréal.
2005:  BCN.Jewellery Factory.Craft & Design Centre. Manchester.Bluecoat DisplayCentre. Liverpool | 2e.Triennal du Bijoux Contemporain. Muse?e de l’orfe?vrerie. Seneffe | The Nomad Room. Contemporary Jewellery, Intimate Space and Public Domain. Centro Cultural de Belem. Lisboa | XVII international jewellery symposium. Turnov.
2004: T-shirt. Forvm Ferlandina. Barcelona | « la schmuckeria » | Galerie 32. Karlsruhe | Sideraden uit Spanje | Galerie Beeld&Aambeeld. Enschelde 
2003: No?mades de la Memo?ria. Escola Massana al FAD. Barcelona | Peu de reina itinerant. Barcelona, Madrid, León, Buenos Aires | Nachstucke. Gallery Friends of Carlotta. Zurich | Srebrne szkoly. Gallery Sztuki. Legnica
2002: L’ornement est-il toujours un crime? HE?AA. Ginebra | Natur und Zeit. Deutches Goldschmiedehaus. Hanau.

Lectures
2008: The Present is an Unexpected Material. Presentation at MAD, New York.
2007: Undressing the guests. Lecture at Escola Massana. Barcelona
2006: The space between two things. Lecture at South Carelia Polytechnic.
Lappeenranta | We are on air. Workshop for jewellers and designers in the FAD, Barcelona | The jewel like a place. Lecture at Escola Industrial, Barcelona.
2005: Your setting or mine. Lecture at Gold and Silversmithing department of RMIT. Melbourne 
2004 Paper in the series woman-culture-industry. Higher School of Design and Caixa Sabadell Foundation | Paper in Jewellery?, Craftwork?. Where are we? JORGC. Barcelona.
2003 Jewellery States. Recoleta cultural center. Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Professional experience
Since 2002 I work as an independent artist in my Barcelona workshop.
 
Teaching
2009  Workshop. Lamar Dodd School of Art. University of Georgia. Athens. US
2007 Otras herramientas de trabajo. Workshop for jeweler and designers. CCEBA in Buenos Aires. (Argentina)
2006 We are on air. Workshop for jewellers and designers. FAD Laboratory in Barcelona.
2004 Teacher at the graduate course Psychology of Creativity. Autonomous University of Barcelona

Artist in residence
2006-07 Rantapaja Studio. South Carelia Polytechnic. Lappeenranta (Finland). 

On sale at

Klimt02 | Gallery
Carrer Còrsega, 317. Pral 2a.
Barcelona 08008.
Tel.00 34 933687235.
klimt@klimt02.net

Additional information

During this academic year mi address will be:
Cranbrook Academy of Art
39221 Woodward Avenue
P.O. Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI
48303-0801
US

Draper , Gemma
Salvador, 22, 2º 5ª
08001 - Barcelona
Spain
Telephone: +34 676 93 60 22