Alba, brooch
1999
Medium
stone, silver
Measurements
6.0 × 6.0 × 0.8 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ruth Margaret Frances Houghton Bequest and NGV Supporters of Contemporary Design and Architecture, 2019
© Courtesy of the artist's estate
Gallery location
Intrafilament 10 - between G18 and G19
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
Jeweller, poet and lecturer Margaret West is recognised as one of Australia’s leading contemporary jewellery and object designers. She trained in gold and silversmithing in Melbourne in the 1970s, and her interest in the physical and metaphorical qualities of materials led to the production of jewellery with ethereal beauty, as seen in these brooches made from stone and silver. From 1979 to 1999, West taught in the jewellery and object studio at Sydney College of the Arts, where she had an immense effect on generations of designers and makers, including successful Australian designer Marc Newson.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
New South Wales
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on rear u.l.: “ALBA”
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on rear l.c.: MW (monogram) / . . / 99
Accession Number
2019.306
Department
Contemporary Design and Architecture