CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND JEWELLERY

Ann Culy

From 2011

1  Every cloud has a gold lining, brooch   $580
sterling silver, pure gold
2  Bird with golden egg, brooch   $540
sterling silver, pure gold
3  Parcel with golden wrap, ring   $550
sterling silver, pure gold
4  Ruby eye on square, ring   $1,110
sterling silver, pure silver, pure gold, ruby

Moonstone pool ring    2011    $3,330
'cool pool of moonstone fills the cup. Light shines through bringing gold to the surface and a flash of Blue to the sky'
22ct gold, pure gold, moonstone

Sapphire eye ring    2011    $750
'always open, never sleeping the sapphire keeps watch'
Pure gold, silver, sapphire

Ruby, Pigeons blood ring    2011    $1,280
'so much fat gold to hold a drop of Blood'
Pure gold, silver, ruby

Coral tablet seal, ring    2011    $1,920
'dense pigment, red image reversed'
Pure gold, silver, coral

From 2010

Full Regalia, chain   $1,330
Pure silver

Full Regalia, pendant   $1,380
Pure gold inlay, pure silver, silk taniko plait

From 2009

Ruby Cup Ring   wrap band fused 22ct gold, pure gold, ruby   $2,200

From 2008

1   Pendant   Boulder opal, pure silver, pure gold, 22ct gold, taaniko silk   $1,920
2   Pendant   Manahiki island black pearl, pure gold, pure silver, 22ct gold   $1,640

From 2003

Ann Culy was born in Lower Hutt in 1952, and now lives in Dunedin. She has a diploma in Fine Arts from Ilam, graduated Teachers College, Auckland, 1975 and completed a certificate in Craft Design (Jewellery) 1990. Since then she has worked full time as a jeweller exhibiting nationally, and estblished Lure jewellery Workshop, Dunedin, in 1995.

"In this private world the challenge is not to give all the solutions equal weight - the parts - front & back, skin, structure, shape, idea; all have their own say. I like to keep some options open, room for another persons interpretation - jewellery that looks as if it belongs to the owner and has a life all of its own. I find it incredibly satisfying to bring a small object into the world that looks as if it already belonged and I got to be the one to recognise it first."

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