Origins & Legacy of Art Jewellery in South Africa
Timed Online Auction, 6 - 22 October 2025
Legacy
About the SessionLegacy, showcases 16 contemporary practitioners whose work reflects the movement’s enduring spirit of experimentation. Like their predecessors, these art jewellers often work with non-precious materials, producing pieces that are expressive, sculptural and conceptually adventurous. Through these wearable artworks, the artists employ art jewellery as a critical medium to reflect upon, comment on, and challenge the world around them, exploring questions of identity, place, social standing, cultural practices, and political viewpoints.
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My work is mainly about exploring some of the fundamentals of our everyday existence in a playful way: the creative and technical process of making, our relationship to objects that surround us and preoccupations of the zeitgeist. I make use of a lot of themes from popular culture. Absurdities of speech and amusing ironies of the contemporary social climate often underpin my pieces, and I enjoy it when people smile in response to them. Ultimately, I like to connect to people, and jewellery is the medium I use to do that - it is the perfect platform for social commentary because it is made on a very human, intimate scale and is designed to move around in the world. The technical aspects of jewellery making are also important to me, and I like to be constantly challenged by new materials that require new problem-solving skills.
- Eric Loubser
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