Tribal Warrior Woman
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Tribal Warrior Woman
Created & Sculpted by Kim Booklass, Wearable Art, Australia
The Tribal Warrior Woman was invited to go to France to be a
part of the Metal Clay Exhibition at the Pole Bijou Gallery in
Baccarat, France. The Exhibition will run from the 16th January to
June 11th 2017. Tribal Woman Warrior, a female figure, sculpted
entirely by hand in bronze metal clay of three colours. The Warrior
is outfitted head-to-toe in armour made from 2 colours of Aussie
Copper Metal Clay. A transformative sculpture, she features
accessories in multiple colours of Aussie Metal Clay that can be
removed and reconfigured to be worn as jewellery.
I would like to give a personal thanks to the following people who
assisted financially in getting the Tribal Warrior Woman to France
in the short time allowed: In Alphabetical Order Ellen Atwood, Ros
Bailey, Armelle Baurbard, Lema Bashir, Constance Beck, Julie
Broughton, Barbara Carter, Finola Jennings Clark, Cindy Eckols,
Julia Turner Fisher, Celine Gaspard, Jude Goswell, Aldith Graves,
Fiona Ingram, Lara Le Reveur, Grainne Reynolds, & Ana Maria
Townsand. I will always be humbled and grateful for the
generosity you have all shown me. From the bottom of my heart, I
Thank You!
Kim Booklass - kimbooklass@gmail.com -
facebook.com/KimBooklassWearableArt
Tribal Warrior Woman symbolizes Everywoman, at once simple
and complex, guarded and protective, secure and vulnerable,
functional and decorative. She stands strong, fights fiercely for her
own, opens herself with love, enfolds all into her armour for both
defence and nurture. Her chains are not only the ties that bind but
also the connections between women around the world. Made
from the very earth of Australia, Warrior Woman is accompanied
by Wolf, a symbol of her visionary creator, loyal yet fierce
protector/companion giving both strength and worldly
knowledge.
Like every woman, Warrior Woman gives pieces of herself to
nurture and enhance others, remaining whole in and of herself.
Appearing to be nothing more than a statue, her armour is
symbolic and transformative, revealing interconnected pieces of
exquisite jewellery. Functional and decorative pieces include her
arm guards becoming earrings; her shield, a stick pin; the bow
and arrow across her back, a bracelet.
Warrior Woman was sculpted completely by hand from Aussie
Metal Clay. Unlike traditional metalwork in which precise
measurements remain true, metal clays shrink varying amounts
during both drying and firing stages. Using five colours in two
different firing temperature ranges, Kim combined beauty and
functionality, seamlessly fitting the jewellery pieces, while
accounting for the differences in shrinkage, malleability, and
strength of the two High Fire colours of the armour and three
Medium Fire colours of the body, the like types fired together.
During her creation, Kim also perfected a unique metal clay glue,
called Kim's ClayStay enabling finer, more delicate pieces to be
invisibly affixed.
Kim, a lifelong Australian, has been a renowned designer of dog
jewellery and accessories for many years. She pioneered
personalized pet sculptures using traditional metal casting
techniques. A new world unfolded when introduced to metal clay.
“Knowing No Boundaries” Kim’s motto, encourages her to be an
innovator in metal clay. Warrior Woman’s inspiration appeared as
both form and symbolism in a dream, with a personal message
about life’s battles. Kim relates, “Sculpting Warrior Woman
pushed me to areas I had not ventured before. She helped make
me into the sculptor I am today, and for that I am forever thankful
to her.”
Awards:
Kim entered her first competitions in 2016 with superlative results!
First Place Metal Clay Europe Challenge #12, April 2016
First Place Metal Clay Section Sydney Royal Show Arts & Crafts
Exhibition 2016
Equivalent First Place Competition of Winners of Metal Clay
Europe's Challenge #12
Exhibition: Invited as one of 16 International Metal Clay Artists, and
the only Australian, to Display Tribal Warrior Woman at the Pole
Bijou Gallery in Baccarat France Jan 16 to Jun 11, 2017
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Karen Paust / Honoring Nature Through Art
When Karen Paust tells people she is a bead artist, they think she strings large beads to make necklaces. Karen's presentation focused on how her beadwork has evolved, as she has pushed the possibilities of this medium. She gets her inspiration from nature, usually thinking, that would be impossible to bead, then trying it. She loves using tiny antique glass beads to create wearable art, sculptures, and mobiles. She hopes to inspire others to see the amazing beauty in the ordinary, a weed, an insect, a seedpod.
Karen Paust is an artist, recycler, and wild mushroom hunter. She received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2004. Her beadwork has been published in New Glass in Review four times, along with The Art of Beadwork. Pole Bijou, an avant garden gallery in Baccarat France, invited her to be in a show titled Jewels and Textiles in 2010-2011. She has been in many museum shows and sells her work at a fine craft gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named Mobilia. Paust teaches beading, knitting, crocheting, embroidering, sewing, painting, and drawing. She lives in Northern York County with her husband and cat, Tigerboy.
York has a rich heritage and legacy of craft, which takes both skill and intention. York: Crafted gives York's doers and makers a platform to share their experience of what it means to craft, and to be a craftsman.
These events include presentations that use the PechaKucha 20 images x 20 seconds format. Find out more at PechaKucha.org. Official PK Night city.
From York: Crafted's August 17, 2017 PK Night event. Video by Jason Plotkin.