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October 21 - 27, 2008

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PRESS RELEASE

JANICE DERRICK EXHIBITION
In2Art is pleased to host an exhibition by Janice Derrick, open to the public from Wednesday October 22 to Monday October 27, 2008.
In 1996 Janice graduated with a BA (hons) in Silversmithing, Jewellery and Allied Crafts from the prestigious Sir John Cass faculty at London Guildhall University. The following year she received a Clerkenwell Award from the Clerkenwell Green Association to set up her business with studio and workshop space, which she did in London. This created opportunities to develop a sound local market and as well sell her work through galleries and museum shops across the USA, Europe and Japan. Janice has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the US, Trinidad and Japan. Janice’s jewellery has been featured in Vogue (UK), Harpers and Queen, World of Interiors, The Sunday Times (UK) and The Guardian (UK) as well as The Rings Book (UK, 2002) and 1000 Rings (US, 2004).

With respect to the works of art in the Exhibition, Janice states that simplicity, clean line, graphic imagery, the structure of manmade or natural forms, movement, geometry and the delicacies of nature that I can observe in the world around me, are what fire her at the core.

Since moving back to her roots in Trinidad in 2005, Janice has found that what surrounds her is less the stark large structures of the big city and much more the lush colour and overwhelming flora of a tropical island. This transition is slowly having a positive effect on the growth of her work.

Every piece of Janice Derrick jewelry is designed and handmade from different colours and carats of gold, sterling and oxidised silver as well as combinations of these metals within the same piece. Most of the work falls across three collections of varying themes; ‘Coiled’, ‘Moving’ and the Artist’s newest range which is still in development, ‘Petal’.

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