Geoanthropology
A research based collection investigating the way humans have and are manipulating, enhancing, exploiting, inventing and problem solving with rocks.
Each rock has been part of a process invented to improve our daily lives spanning 3 million years. The work is an open conversation around the use of natural materials. Some I have recreated and some which I have enlisted experts to make.
The jewels act as conversation pieces, interchangeable specimen frames to hold the different rock inserts.
Stefanie Ying Lin Cheong
Glasgow, Scotland
Collection of all jewels - 9ct Interchangeable Specimen ring with North Sea Core insert, Silver Interchangeable Specimen brooch small with Studio Frostwood glaze waste insert, Silver Interchangeable Specimen brooch large with Faience insert. Silver Interchangeable Specimen ring with Faience insert, 9ct Interchangeable Specimen brooch large with Spent shale insert and 9ct Gold Interchangeable Specimen brooch small with Plasticglomerate insert.
9ct Gold Interchangeable Specimen ring with spent shale insert.
Silver Specimen brooch small and large with K Briq inserts and ring with wild Glasgow clay insert. Placed on a pile of spent shale from West Lothian bings and native copper.
Silver Interchangeable Specimen brooch large with concrete insert, Silver Interchangeable Specimen ring with lava insert. With sand, Plasticglomerate and Faience props.
9ct gold Interchangeable Specimen Brooches - small with K Briq insert, large with North Sea Core insert and ring with limestone insert. With oyster shells and sea plastic debri.
Silver Interchangeable Specimen brooch with K Briq insert. Also pictured studio Frostwood waste glaze (dark blue) and Faience (light blue). A mixture of rock aggregates, different sands and wire.