This March we celebrate the eminent jeweller Jacqueline Mina; an important senior figure amongst The Gallery’s representation of contemporary jewellers. Mina had her first solo exhibition with The Gallery in 1993, Jacqueline Mina – New Work in Platinum and Gold, and we have continued to show her innovative work ever since.
Jacqueline Mina’s technical brilliance, allied with her strong artistic curiosity has resulted in a range of sensuous, understated work, which has a rare aesthetic presence in the field of contemporary gold jewellery. Her superb technical accomplishment in manipulating precious metals is combined with a fine, painterly eye. Sources of inspiration include the Venetian Palazzo Fortuny with its textile drapes; featuring devoré velvet with their etched patterns.
We recently visited Jacqueline in her London studio and arranged a photoshoot the featured a number of her beautiful pieces in platinum and gold. Read more in our blog here.
I aim to achieve an aesthetic result that obscures the technical rigours of its production. I am preoccupied mainly with the surfaces of precious metals (which I always affect in some way before construction begins) and with form – juxtaposing the play of light, reflection, lustre with characteristic angle, curve and line – inspired by an abstraction of nature and art, and particularly of the human form. I am intrigued, too, by the potential for dialogue between inner and outer planes, with random patterns imprisoned within strictly delineated edges, the inclusion of chance, and the visual tension created by the contrast and harmony of all these factors. – Jacqueline Mina
