Creativity dangles at the Craft Council of BC Gallery's The Earring Show, May 4 to 18
Artists use materials from silver to crochet to recycled plastics to fashion artfully innovative bling
Swethambari Sridharan earrings.
Dawna Gillespie creations.
Anna Kolosova designs.
The Craft Council of BC Gallery presents The Earring Show from May 4 to 18 (and online to July 31)
CRAFTED FROM everything from fine silver to polymer clay, post-consumer plastics, and found materials, more than 200 handmade earrings from around are gathered for display and sale at the Craft Council of BC Gallery this month.
Each tells its own story, in a show that’s grown over the past 10 years from a one-day local event into a full-on international ode to ear bling.
Standouts this year range from bonified wearable sculptures and colourful textile pieces to high-design geometrics and everything in between. Fine metalwork spans leafy natural motifs to bulbous molten forms and sleek modular pieces. Among the more unusual finds are former lighthouse keeper Lise Saurette’s ethereal, organic forms fashioned from dried sea kelp, and Jessica Chicoine’s vibrant crocheted jellyfish.
Refreshingly, many conceptual sets of earrings in the show don’t match.
Artists submitted work under three categories: One-Of-A-Kind, Limited Edition, and Emerging Artists. A jury will select a winner from each category, with winners announced at the opening night on May 4.
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