Nora Kovats (Germany) - Plus One Collective
NORA KOVATS
Biography:
Nora Kovats is a contemporary jewellery designer, illustrator, writer and botanical enthusiast based in Bamberg, Germany. Fire – heating metal and enamelling – is Nora’s language of creating. She finds herself drawn to enamelling as a technique because of its uniqueness and its seductive possibility for spontaneity, dictated by the firing process. Her method is becoming more experimental as she is evolving in her practice, savouring the burns and scars of this haphazard process.
Nora acts as an ambassador for the hand-crafted. She sincerely believes that a path towards a positive future for humankind leads through strengthening the act of imagining in herself and others.
Artist Statement:
Through her creative practice, Nora has begun to open a window into an imaginary garden where botanical and animal shapes merge to construct a unique visual language. Gardens can be metaphors for identities, always growing, evolving, spilling over their boundaries. The image of the garden unites the desire to organize and discipline nature - that need for borders - with the equally human urge to be unconstrained, free, to break through boundaries. While the garden underpins her work in every respect, lately her attention has been captured by the invisible gardens around us - microbes and fungi - as well.
Dancing Microbes. Neckpiece. Enamel, copper, sapphire, sterling silver, jasper, lapis lazuli, labradorite, carnelian, steel wire.
Imagining my Internal Microbes I. Brooch. Enamel, copper, steel pin, oxidized sterling silver, black pearl.
Imagining my Internal Microbes II. Brooch. Enamel, copper, steel pin, oxidized sterling silver, black pearl.
Imagining my Internal Microbes III. Brooch. Enamel, copper, steel pin, oxidized sterling silver, black pearl.