Featuring our newest project space: The Curio

The Curio is a collector's cabinet dedicated to featuring one designer/maker for a period of two weeks. Housed in two of Sterling by Gaffa's retail cabinets, The Curio aims to showcase not only an artists production range, but to give the audience an extensive inside look into the makers practice. On display will be a sample of exhibition work, the maker's production range as well as images/text about their practice. The dates and launch party for The Curio coincide with the Exhibitions on the above Gallery Level.

Curated by Amy Robson & Nina Baker

Featured Artist: Natalia Milosz-Piekarska

Natalia Milosz-Piekarska's work engages with the animist notion that inanimate objects can be imbued with a spirit, as she explores ideas of totemism, fetishism and the 'spirit' within objects. Her contemporary jewellery practice revolves around creating whimsical artefacts from stories and mythologies untold. Steeped in fictitious folklore and superstition, these objects do not reference any particular form of belief, but rather the structure of belief itself.
Natalia’s retail collection is an offshoot from her research based work into talismanic jewellery and objects. In her small, curious little charms, Natalia imbues a little mystery and whimsy, to be coveted and treasured.