Origins & Legacy of Art Jewellery in South Africa

Timed Online Auction, 6 - 22 October 2025

Legacy
About the Session

Legacy, 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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Lot 58
  • Marlene De Beer 'Stand van Sake' brooches


Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 6 000
Location
Cape Town
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About this Item

South Africa 1957-
Marlene De Beer 'Stand van Sake' brooches
vitreous enamel on copper, with sterling silver and stainless-steel findings, longest approximately 7cm, total weight 29 grams
2012

Notes

Marlene de Beer harnesses the expressive potential of non-precious materials such as porcelain, glass (including vitreous enamel), and sisal, creating a phenomenological response to her lived experiences. The series of enamelled brooches depicting obsolete street names serve as commentary on “currently conceived postcolonial social transformation” based on the renaming of streets in Durban.

- Marlene de Beer

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