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| The Justified Sinner |
| Jeweller of thirty years' experience, working in found objects and materials - especially corroded iron and steel - as well as traditional jewellery materials. |
Exhibitions
| Online galleries:
2008 – Carrotbox 2008 – Etsy, featured artist 2009 – V&A “Find, Make, Wear”, curated by Dorothy Hogg 2009 – HCJ Project, featured artist 2009 – ACJ Website, featured artist Solo and Group Exhibitions: 1992 -1999 – Various PLE exhibitions around Europe 1999 – “Self-Defence In The Year 2000”, Connect Gallery, Glasgow 2005 – North Glasgow College Show, Tron Theatre, Glasgow 2009 – ACJ Scotland, Winter Show, WASPS Gallery, Dundee 2010 - ACJ Show, "Treasure", London Jewellery Week 2010 - Re:Collect, group show at Llantarnam Grange, Wales. |
Biography
| Having no formal training in metalwork or jewellery, Dauvit Alexander - who is also known as The Justified Sinner - is largely self-taught, chance leading him from the chosen path of landscape gardening and into the world of contemporary jewellery. Over the last thirty years, he has been developing his skills and it is only in the last few of those years that he has felt that his works are worthy of presentation to the public.
Dauvit grew up in the dying industrial heartland of the Central Belt of Scotland and watched the steelworks and shipyards breathe their last, the monuments to industry torn down, the cities, towns and cultures laid waste. It is from this destruction that his work grows: objects found in dereliction, bolts from rusted tractors, crushed lobster-pots, 300 sewing-machine needles from an abandoned sweatshop, a corroded spanner, the petrol cap from a 1950s truck... all of these have found their way into his recent work. Rescued, reworked, he uses these humble relics of the industrial past in conjunction with precious metals and stones and the techniques of fine jewellery to create objects which playfully evoke the idea of "nostalgia" whilst being fully up-to-date. |
More Images
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| Post-Apocalyptic Cocktail Ring with Citrine |
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| Blue Sinset on the Grey Lagoon - Collar |
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| Post-Apocalyptic Cocktail Ring with Amethyst |
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