Blanche Tilden—ripple effect: a 25 year survey
- When 1 Apr - 4 Jun 2023
- Where
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Address
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd Paddington NSW 2021
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WED TO FRI 10AM–5PM; SAT TO SUN 12PM-5PM
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+61 2 8936 0888
This survey of Melbourne-based jeweller and maker Blanche Tilden reveals her remarkable and critically acclaimed practice, celebrated for its transformation of everyday and industrial materials into aesthetically refined, conceptually rich wearable objects. Tilden has a unique approach to her materials, in particular glass, which she explores both as a material for jewellery making and deploys as a metaphor for the connections between making, industry, the wearable object and the body. Her fascination with mechanical devices, fuelled by a desire to understand how things work, continually inspires her work.
This first comprehensive survey of Tilden’s career includes historical and contemporary works loaned from numerous public and private collections. Tilden has reinterpreted previous work to create new forms that expand on her preoccupations with value, mechanical movement, and industrial and architectural uses of glass, translating something of the macro immensity of the built and material world to the intimacy of the jewellery object.
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Curated by Jason Smith
A Geelong Gallery touring exhibition



Public Program
In Conversation: Blanche Tilden & Jason Smith
3pm Saturday 1 April 2023
Learn more about the work of Mlebourne based jeweller and maker Blanche Tilden in a conversation with exhibtion curator and Geelong Gallery Director & CEO Jason Smith.

Banner: Blanche Tilden, Lourve 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne. Photography: Andrew Curtis. © Blanche Tilden
Tile: Blanche Tilden, Yom Hashoah ritual sash (bandolier) 2007. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne. Photographer: Rhiannon Slatter. © Blanche Tilden
Installation Images: Installation view, ‘Blanche Tilden–ripple effect: a 25 year survey’, UNSW Galleries, 2023. Photography: Jacquie Manning.