I came across the photos of Anne-Miek Bibber's jewelry on Flickr, and thought it'd be a good start to some profiles of people making interesting jewelry out there, particularly with plastics.
Anne-Miek Bibber's Flickr has some nice photos of experimental jewelry made with a wide variety of materials.
How long have you been making jewelry and do you have any particular kind of training?
I have been making jewelry since childhood, always collection broken pieces from old aunts and my mothers friends. I was always creating, drawing and painting. I finished art school, the "Rietveld Akademie for fine Art" in Amsterdam and later I took courses silversmithing and pottery. ( I made lots of ceramic beads too.)Do you ever sell jewelry or do you just make them as art-objects?
I do sell some of my jewelry, sometimes as "art-objects" but some women are brave enough to wear big bald pieces, like my two meter button necklaces! And the "Rose-garden collection is even quite popular, beacause light and colourfull and easy to wear.
Have you or anyone else ever worn some of your more experimental, large pieces out into public at an event, etc?
I wear a big piece myself on an opening night, often with a hat and a long skirt. So lots of my friends do not recognize me, because I love to be comfortable in jeans and a teeshirt.How do you feel about jewelry in relation to fashion, for example are the pieces you create more like "sculpture" or could you envision creating jewelry for fashion shows and shoots?
I love "sculptural" but I always make sure, a necklace really fitts a human body!
I feel my process of creating is too slow to keep up with fashion, and worse I do not have the "feel", the "touch", needed to be in the fashion-rat-race.
But than many Dutch fashion desingers make long-lasting-fashion. So I really do not know, it depends on your definition of "fashion"!!
Do you have a particular favorite material?
I love glass & ceramic beads and gems, alas for big bold pieces not very practical, a necklace made from these materials will be very heavy, and cause a bad back and pain in the neck....That is the beauty of cups, deodorant-roll-on-balls and other plastic stuff it is very light and so comfortable to wear.
If your favorite material is not something traditional, are there any traditional materials (eg metal, wire, gemstones, beads, polymer clay, resin) that particularly appeal to you?
I love amber, bone and coral very much too, great colours and structures and above all a very nice warm feeling while wearing, alas those materials are quite expensive when I want to make a real big piece. I know investments pay back, but I am a better artist than a business-woman :-(
more of Anne-Miek Bibber on FlickrLabels: jewelry
