COLLECT INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2024
CONVERSATIONS IN SILVER AND METAL
FIVE is a unique collaborative platform for silversmiths and fine metalworkers. Founded in 2021, it presents ambitious, contemporary work, which inspires new conversations about material, idea and process.
This year, FIVE will continue to represent an exciting group of leading makers in metal: Ane Christensen, Angela Cork, Hamish Dobbie, Jessica Jue and Patrick Davison.
All the work on show reflects the artists’ shared passion for precision, fine craftsmanship and drive to challenge perceptions and expectations of tradition.
For 2024, all five artists will be showing new work in response to the theme ‘Colour’.
Collect 1-3 March (Previews 28-29 February) at Somerset House
FIVE ETHOS
As well as representing this group of makers, the number 'Five' is an important part of a wider strategic plan by the group to give an international platform over time to an ever evolving group of makers and provoke dynamic visual conversations about contemporary metal. To create new opportunities for makers, encourage ambitious new work and develop a wider interest in our craft and inspire the next generation.
FIVE ARTISTS
FIVE consists of UK based silversmiths Angela Cork, Jessica Jue, Ane Christensen, Patrick Davison and Sheng Zhang. We are a diverse mix of exciting emerging and mid-career makers representing a cross section of generations and backgrounds and yet many things unite us.
We are silversmiths with a shared ethos evolving around precision and fine craftsmanship, who apply contemporary ideas to traditional materials and techniques and challenge the preconceptions and expectations of tradition, value, and the use of silver.
Craftsmanship
ATTENTION TO DETAIL
CHALLENGING SCALE AND FUNCTION
Themes run through our work around our interaction with environment and we will work with light and surface to create a strong and dramatic setting, using reflection, shadow, and illusion throughout the display. Our aim is to showcase the work as it is intended to be viewed and allow visitors to imagine new possibilities for use and presentation.
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