Sally Marsland (b.1969) is a BA and BA Honours graduate (1993, 1996) of the Gold and Silversmithing department at RMIT, Melbourne. She has also set up a studio in Melbourne, taught at RMIT and in 1999 is currently studying with Otto Kunzli at the well-respected Academy of Fine Art, Munich. Kunzli has visited Australia and has had a continuing influence on jewellers and metalsmiths here. Marsland was awarded an Australia Council development grant in 1996, a Queen's Trust Grant for young Australians in 1998, and a (German) DAAD Stipendium in 1999. She has exhibited consistently since 1992 and won the City of Hobart Art Prize (jewellery) in 1997.

This group of brooches, designed as a single work, is a very fine example of the characteristic groupings Marsland has developed over recent years. Especially notable are the inter-relationships she makes between the different materials, colours and forms, and the way they are arranged in relation to one another.
She has always been interested in small collections of objects and this set of brooches marks the culmination of an important stage of her career.
New work in Germany is taking a different, but related direction. Some has included cast paint over wax forms. Other work combines found objects, like bottles, with her own objects (hollow forms sometimes cups) in to 'still lives' that are displayed on shelves.

Made by Sally Marsland (b.1969) in Melbourne, Australia, 1997.

The brooches were exhibited in Japan in late 1999, through Gallery Funaki, Melbourne.

Set of brooches (11), 'Some brooches that are round', 925 silver / silver beads / aluminium / monel, designed and made by Sally Marsland, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1997.

Set of 11 brooches consisting of brooch, hollow form in flower shape with 6 rounded petals, 925 silver, cast, single bar pin fastening;
brooch, bead with hole, elongated form, silver, oxidised (black colour), stick pin; brooch, shallow domed circular form with narrow raised ring decoration on top, lathe-turned oxidised aluminium (black colour), single bar pin fastening; brooch, bead, spherical with single hole decoration on top, silver, stick pin; brooch, hollow oval shape with ragged opening, textured exterior, 925 silver, cast, oxidised (black colour), set off-centre on stick pin; brooch, hollow dome form with small knob on top, aluminium, cast, anodised black, single bar pin fastening; brooch, small ring shape, flat band of metal, monel, lathe-turned, black colour oxidised, stick pin; brooch, shallow circular form, flat bottom with small shallow rim, small foot on reverse, aluminium, lathe-turned, anodised grey colour, single bar bin fastening; brooch, [hollow] domed flower shape, with flat, circular centre and six petals folding back, 925 silver, cast, oxidised (black colour), single bar pin fastening; brooch, hollow half-spherical form with wide ragged opening, textured exterior, 925 silver, cast, single bar pin fastening; brooch, thick-walled, shallow domed form, wide hole with raised rim, 925 silver, cast, single bar pin fastening.

All to be displayed in a format according to photo provided on the object file.

Designed: Marsland, Sally; Melbourne, Victoria

Made: Marsland, Sally; Melbourne, Victoria; 1997


Used: Funaki, Mari; Japan; 1999

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