JULIA DEVILLE: ART, JEWELRY, TAXIDERMY

Cineraria is the latest collection from artist and jewelr Julia Deville.  The Melbourne-based artist says this about the future of her work, “I’ll still create my jewelry, but I aim to have two assistants producing this for me, while I make larger works. My exhibition is entirely sculptural works using taxidermy and metalsmithing techniques.”

Relocating to Melbourne from her native New Zealand in 2001, DeVille initially tried her hand at shoe design, setting up the leather accessories label Abattoir before realizing it wasn’t her greatest interest. Upon meeting retired taxidermist Rudy Mineur, deVille began dabbling in the art form while obtaining a degree in advanced gold and silversmithing.

“I am producing work that I believe no one else is doing in the same scale and mediums; making fine jewelry pieces and artworks using taxidermy and jewelry techniques, and secondly, work that has a dialogue about both life and death,” says deVille. “By using symbols of mortality I hope that the viewer will contemplate their own mortal existence and, in turn, appreciate the significance of life.”

Using only animals that have died from natural causes, increasingly deVille finds that people who have encountered her work and recognize art in the afterlife donate the majority of her materials.

(via cool hunting)

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