Tamia Dellinger lives and works as a contemporary jewellery artist in Lisbon. After completing her training at Ar.co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, where she now teaches herself, she went on to complete a Master’s degree in Jewellery and Gemstones at the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus of Trier University of Applied Sciences in Idar-Oberstein. She was awarded the Marzee Graduate Prize as early as 2022.
For her current exhibition, Dellinger focuses on a motif that has been a constant feature of her artistic practice for years: the face. She carves faces into stone as negative moulds, thereby creating permanent forms from which positive casts are made. The exhibition brings to light the dialogue between emptiness and form, absence and presence, by juxtaposing both the stone forms and the jewellery objects created from them. Materiality and symbolism combine to form poetic narratives about memory, identity and transformation.
At the same time, Professor Ute Eitzenhöfer is exhibiting recent works that continue her characteristic exploration of material, value and social attributions. Her jewellery art challenges traditional notions of preciousness and beauty, combining gemstones, plastics and everyday materials to create works that view jewellery as both an artistic and a social medium.
Ute Eitzenhöfer has been teaching at the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus of Trier University of Applied Sciences since 2005. Her works are exhibited internationally and feature in major public and private collections. She was awarded the Marzee Prize as early as 2000.
The joint exhibition by graduate Tamia Dellinger and Professor Ute Eitzenhöfer at the Marzee Gallery highlights the close links between the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus and the international jewellery scene. It also illustrates how artistic perspectives from Idar-Oberstein continue to develop and gain visibility within a prestigious international exhibition context.
Further information about the Marzee Gallery can be found on the Website and the Instagram-Channel of the Gallery. Here you will find further information on Tamia Dellinger and Ute Eitzenhöfer.
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