Béatrice-Carlson - Precious Collective
Béatrice-Carlson
Designer biography:
Béatrice-Carlson is an interdisciplinary artist with a fashion design background. She uses jewellery to explore the function of the body and its proper language and position in society. Her narrative is about attitude towards adornment, non-gender and Covid impact. Since the pandemic her practice focuses on reducing compulsive consumption by recycling, repurposing and rethinking the notion of preciousness. Mostly working with porcelain shards via Mudlarking she researches their circa and provenance, feeling the responsibility to pursue their story or create a new one. She acknowledges her fashion background by adorning the work alongside mending the shards by hand stitching, alongside beer cans and even using some of her own etchings.
Collection concept:
'Discarded, amputated objects and porcelains. I mend and stitch, I talk for the forgotten'. Keeping their original appearance, I polish and drill if I need, but my intrusion in their bodies stay minimal. The Brewery company closed in 2022, those cans are history too.
The Old Willow, Necklace series - Vintage Old Willow-England porcelain plate cut and stained with tea, oven burned/cracked, polished to smooth the sharp ends and drilled.
'I can handle it' Ring. Teacup handle shard found on the beach, its original shape and stain showing the aging marks from the sea.
All adorned with beer can teardrops hand cut, polished and stitched with silk thread.
