My Kitchen Jewels with Pennie Jagiello

My Kitchen Jewels is a sustainable creative Workshop with Pennie Jagiello Contemporary Jewellery Objects.

Experience our joy packed craft extravaganza from your home or at The Bench! Keeping in line with Covid protocols, My Kitchen Jewels will now be offered via Zoom online.

As much as we wanted Pennie here in person, sadly we couldn’t smuggle her across the border!

Both sessions are LIVE (not pre recorded) & can be attended from your home using a ZOOM account.

However, if you wish to create together and in a workshop atmosphere, The Bench will be projecting My Kitchen Jewels live on Sunday October 11.

A kitchen load of recycled materials are all the ingredients you will need. Discover how to utilise everyday materials with a focus on plastics that surround us, while employing a variety of creative multidisciplinary techniques to create a unique and wearable piece of art.

Get ready to cut, carve and create from your very own home…

Overview

Participants are required to source materials to use for this workshop utilising a variety of recycled, discarded, or broken objects and materials, in particular plastics.

You will be guided in developing considerations for design, components, and scale while exploring finer details to construct a unique wearable.

The aim is to be resourceful utilising materials in ways that endeavour to create no further waste, and to explore the disposable things we have around us that are often unseen, disregarded or discarded, that can be repurposed as materials and tools. This leads to establishing a creative practice working as sustainably as possible.

Outcomes

At the end of this 3 hour intensive workshop, you will have created a collection of components for a unique piece of wearable art with a new found knowledge for creative explorations with recycled and found materials, while incorporating a variety of hands on multidisciplinary techniques which can be further developed and expand upon outside of the workshop.

Workshop participants will explore mark making techniques often more traditionally employed upon metal or wood along with a variety of cold joining techniques, and applying these to a selection of household plastics. Throughout history metals have been associated with value and wealth while plastics were designed to replace expensive natural materials and made way for a throw-away society. As a master of mimicry plastics eventually became a disposable commodity with unforeseeable environmental impacts.

Suitable for anyone interested in salvaging their marks in time as wearable heirlooms!