Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift

Blanche Tilden,

26 April - 28 May, 2023

This exhibition of new jewellery by Blanche Tilden captures a colour shift - an exciting departure from monochrome to colour that collaboratively explores links between jewellery, photography, architecture, and the body.

A series of accidental and deliberate multiple exposure film photographs, taken by Marcus Scholz while walking around the streets of Melbourne are saturated with colour and distorted architectural detail. Setting Blanche on a path of abstraction and translation, these unique photographs are used as starting points for a suite of necklaces made with combinations of coloured and clear borosilicate glass, anodised titanium, and silver.

While Tilden’s signature themes of transparency, connection, and movement are still apparent, new forms and colour combinations take her established visual language into unexplored territory, creating moments of stillness and calm that emerge from the layered chaos of everyday urban life.


Colour Shift catalogue

Spandrel + Spandrel necklace, 2023, photographic print on aluminium, flameworked borosilicate glass, silver

Work from Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift

Spandrel by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Spandrel, 2022, photographic print on aluminium, 84 x 60cm
Spandrel necklace by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Spandrel necklace, 2023, Flameworked borosilicate glass, 925 silver 34cm diameter x 1.2cm high
Hosier by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Hosier, 2022, photographic print on aluminium, 84 x 60cm
Hosier necklace by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Hosier necklace, 2023, Flameworked borosilicate glass, 925 silver, anodised titanium 34cm diameter x 1.2cm high
Façade by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Façade, 2022, photographic print on aluminium, 84 x 60cm
Façade necklace by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Façade necklace, 2023, Flameworked borosilicate glass, 925 silver, anodised titanium 66cm diameter x 0.8cm high
Saturday by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Saturday, 2022, photographic print on aluminium, 84 x 60cm
Saturday necklace by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Saturday necklace, 2023, 2023
Flameworked borosilicate glass, blackened 925 silver, anodised titanium 28cm diameter x 0.8cm high
Marquee by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Marquee, 2022, photographic print on aluminium, 84 x 60cm
Marquee necklace by Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz: Colour Shift Marquee necklace, 2023, Flameworked borosilicate glass, 925 silver 24cm diameter x 0.9cm high

Artists involved