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RIchmond-BASED Craft Artist Sarah “Spee” Parker
Sarah “Spee” Parker is a Richmond-based sculptor and jeweler. Sarah’s sculptures, installations and jewelry focus heavily on americana, punk, DIY, anti-containment, and questioning authorship through the lens of craft.
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Process-driven cast aluminum and cast sterling silver jewelry with set findings such as foil backed antique plastic and glass gems. Reclaimed materials highlighted in this series celebrate aspirational environmental sustainability in the jewelry industry.
There is a network of unspoken rules regarding the authorship and creative capital that makers hold. This question does not feel consensually understood in this field: where does my genius as an artist begin and end and where does this collective knowledge bleed into that?
This on-going investigation questions authorship in the contemporary art jewelry field and seeks to generate accessibility to esoteric art jewelry for folks outside of the field. Spee celebrates the open door policy on discussions of creative license in the creative disciplines.
