Monday 25 October 2010

Cabinet of Wearable Wonders



New York based jeweller, Erica Weiner creates unusual jewellery which often conjures up images of antique entomology cabinets stuffed with wonders - just perfect for our annual online exhibition The Menagerie; works inspired by the natural world.




Erica creates delicate and wearable sculptures using the ‘remnants of life’, such as a 65-million-year-old fossil of a Nautilus shell which is cast inside and out in silver, the minuscule pelvis of a mouse, the vertebrae of a small snake to, my favourite, the unbelievably tiny bronze skull of a hummingbird.


Erica's cabinet can be found The Menagerie exhibition.

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