Warwick Freeman: Jeweller
During the 1980s, Warwick Freeman (born 1953) explored with other New Zealand jewellers the way identity could be expressed through local materials and ideas – a move away from the Western understanding of preciousness and value. Since then, his jewellery forms have expressed the familiar, the unexpected, and the curious as he explores meaning through found objects and materials that together spark and play with memories and reminders of place.
In March this year, the contemporary jewellery world celebrates Warwick Freeman in Munich, Germany. Freeman’s work from Te Papa will be shown in the survey exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung – Design Museum (in collaboration with Objectspace). ‘Hook Hand Heart Star’ takes its title from emblems that resonate within his fifty years of practice.
