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COLLABORATIVE WORK
Itchy Dogs
Fran Callen & Meghan O'Rourke
Fran Callen & Meghan O'Rourke
“...As a jeweller this collaborative work has been a departure from my usual methods of working, as I have begun exploring the use of industrial materials and processes in my practice. The medium of jewellery complimenting in every respect; the free and spontaneous style of Fran Callen's itchy dog series of drawings, transforming them into distinctive wearable creations.”
Meghan O’Rourke 2008
“In the streets of India I drew like an itchy dog. They are streets that seethe with life... And amongst the brightly buzzing hullabaloo the luscious beauty and decadence the struggle of poverty in dusty tangled streets and alleys is constant, sparkling, glittering, shiny evidence of an unquenchable appreciation for decorative beauty. And there is always, always, an itchy dog. I want to keep scratching.”
Fran Callen, Under the Banyan Tree catalogue, 2008
Fran Callen & Meghan O’Rourke
Second Generation Itchy Dog Series Brooches
steel, aluminium, enamel paint, gold and silver leaf, mixed media
65mm x 50mm x 4mm
2008
