item details
NameBox containing pendant, bracelet, earrings
ProductionElena Gee; maker/artist; 1987; New Zealand
Classificationjewellery, artifacts, pendants, bracelets, earrings
Materialspāua (abalone shell), steel, rubber, titanium, cotton
Materials SummaryPaua shell and cotton thread pendant, paua shell earrings with titanium hoops, bracelet of paua shell. Enclosed in a steel and rubber container with lexan cover.
Techniquescutting
DimensionsOther: 40mm (width), 500mm (height), 95mm (length)
Registration Number1993-0038-20
Credit lineGift of the Friends of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 1993
Overview
Bone Stone Shell: Eléna Gee
Among the metal debris and industrial flotsam and jetsam I keep, there should be accidental box forms. I will arrange the memories in these boxes … Then I will make the memories wearable, altering them as little as is necessary, a hole here, a cord there, just enough for convenience; as with memories.
Eléna Gee, Bone Stone Shell catalogue, 1988
Eléna Gee was the only Bone Stone Shell exhibitor to use man-made as well as natural, found materials in her work – a strong influence on later jewellers such as Lisa Walker.