Sprue Rings

Heart of Darkness is a visually rich showcase of artworks that appeal to Gothic aesthetic sensibilities and our dark desires through associated colour palettes, symbols and motifs. It features fourteen contemporary Australian artists working in ceramics, jewellery, glass, fibres and multimedia who have embraced dark themes to produce beautiful, mysterious and macabre Gothic-tinged artworks. 

Darkness isn’t absence – it’s where the soul thrives.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Welfe Bowyer is contemporary jeweller and artist born in Cymru/Wales and who is currently based in Aotearoa/New Zealand. While working in the architectural field, Welfe began experimenting with jewellery design, which allowed him the perfect medium with which to conceptualise, experiment and create three dimensional forms on a scale different to that of architecture. Predominantly self-taught, in combination with skills courses at Melbourne Polytechnic, Welfe’s jewellery has its emphasis on form and structure, material combinations, and textures that are used to bind elements.