Invisible Forces - Linda van Niekerk

Next month Metalab will feature the work of Tasmanian based artists Linda van Niekerk and Peter Whyte in a collaborative exhibition titled Invisible Forces.
Before the show opens, we thought you may want to learn a little more about each artist and about the exhibition.
Invisible Forces will be the fourth time Linda will exhibit at Metalab and the first as part of  a collaborative duo.
Linda describes herself as a conceiver of wearable sculpture rather than a jeweller and continues  to redefine her pieces in a deceptively simple and minimalist manner. Linda explains:

Three aspects have inspired the jewellery developed for this exhibition. Firstly, the concept of the power of the hidden forces at work either almost without warning or over eons of time to create, for example, the perfect pebbles found on the Tasmanian coastline.
The second inspiration came from the sheer delight of the sublime forms in the images created by Peter Whyte. And the third and most important inspiration came by allowing myself to be seduced by the feeling, the movement, the incredible power of Peter’s beautiful photographs and attempting to interpret these emotions into wearable form.

Linda has been a finalist in several prestigous local awards including the National Contemporary Jewellery Award, the Contemporary Wearables Award and the Hobart Prize. In 2010 Linda won the overall prize for the Tasmanian Design Awards. This award winning neckpiece is a simple and elegant statement utilising round section chenier, strung on silk cord.