Annika Ingelaere (Belgium) - Plus One Collective
ANNIKA INGELAERE
Biography:
Annika Ingelaere (1971) has been fascinated since childhood by Applied Arts and in particular jewellery. First she studies graphic and advertising design at Sint-Lucas Ghent (1994), later Jewellery Design at the Academy of Sint-Niklass (2000). By continuing to train herself, her work is constantly evolving. She loves creating but also passing on her knowledge. That is why she regularly exhibits her work and organizes workshops. For several years she searched for a link between jewellery and graphic design, and thanks to enamel she found this link. She can paint with the powders, the colours and transparencies... She learned the technique in Idar-Oberstein (Germany). In the beginning, she searched for the boundary between art and kitsch. By combining several materials ( raw stones, wood, silver) she retrieved the balance.
Collection Concept: Zooming in, zooming out
When you compare landscape with zoomed in pictures of seeds, certain similarities are visible, For example, the polygon and the organic surface occur in both cases. This project focuses on the beauty of pollution. When you look at certain zoomed-out, man-polluted landscapes, these contain a certain esthetic beauty, as ironic it many be. However, when you zoom out, it shows its true form as the roughness comes up.
The silver pieces in this project are an investigation into form, colour and structure found in nature and pollution. As jewels, they seem large but because of their lightness they are very wearable.
