By the first and second year students of jewellery department of Gerrit Rietveld Academie (the Netherlands)
17.03-29.03 EAA Gallery
The Jewelry department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, was greatly inspired by “Two Close Ones”; the 4th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial that was organised by the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial Society, Tallinn. The event became the stimulus for a program of technical workshops that ran in the first semester of the school year. The project was called “Metamorfose”.
Students were asked to choose a special object and to analyze that in hundred drawings and collages. Then, through the introduction of a range of different technical skills they learned how to transform that object.
The project is not only focused on the development of technical craft skills but also on developing each individual's personal ideas and concepts. Emphasis was placed on the imaginative ideas that the final object would communicate. This is one of the fundamental characteristic of education at the Rietveld Academie.
Fourteen students took part in the project – this is in fact all of the first and second year students. The students were encouraged to apply for the competition itself and we are proud that four of them have been selected.
To give a real sense of their projects at this intermediary stage is extremely difficult. The students have therefore prepared a special “work in progress” presentation that includes images, text, drawings, and films.
Authors and tutors of the project:
Hilde De Decker
Evert Nijland
Ellert Haitjema
Erik Mattijssen
Pieter Elbers
