Artist/Maker:

Erik Kuiper
The Netherlands, 1974

Title:

Ranah

  • Year: 2008
  • Type: Brooch
  • Material: aluminium, silver, wood, tape, woolen blanket, paper, paint, filler
  • Size: 11 x 9,5 x 3,3cm
  • Aquisition: 2009, Young Talent

Erik Kuiper is a builder: “I love building, making something”, he says.
“A plan gives you something to hold on to, it all happens on these lines. Also building is one of our primitive drives, first you provide for food and personal covering, and then you look for shelter.”

Erik Kuiper is renovating houses to support himself and his family. The materials and techniques he encounters while building inspire him to make jewellery. This brooch is related to architecture in its rectangular shape, and because of the materials that Kuiper used to build this brooch, layer-by-layer.