Jewellery designer Jasmin Scott of Jasmin Sparrow and artist Jade Townsend joined forces at Gallery Ne Geurra, staging a collaborative installation that layered pearls, veils and mirrors to explore adornment as both art and object.
A friendship first, a collaboration second: that was the spirit Jasmin Sparrow designer Jasmin Scott and artist/writer/curator Jade Townsend brought to NZ Fashion Week. Their installation at Gallery Ne Geurra in Parnell was shaped as much by trust and shared references as by the materials themselves.
With gallerist Jason Ng’s collection of furniture providing ready opportunities for display, the jewels read less like a showcase and more like a dressing room at home. A string of pearls draped over a screen, earrings hanging from a sculpture, the reflection of a duchess stacked with accessories for fingers, ears and neck. The familiar act of getting ready was reimagined here as an art installation, where jewellery and sculpture held equal presence.
Jade’s installation — Siren — reworked her signature Veil series with the addition of freshwater baroque pearls, a detail that echoed Jasmin’s own designs. The gauze took on a new weight, threaded with embellishment that blurred where one practice ended and the other began.
The things we choose to finish an outfit with day-to-day can be a statement, or a softly spoken marker of who you are and where you’re at in life. At Fashion Week, it was clear that those who went all in on accessorising — layering, mixing, adding a little something extra — were the looks that lingered.
Both Jasmin and Jade are interested in looking back as a way of moving forward, drawing on memory and materiality to guide their craft. For Jasmin, this moment of reflection also marks a shift. Alongside her jewellery, she’ll soon release a collection of vintage finds, objects sourced to sit in dialogue with her own pieces and extend the idea of adornment into the everyday.
What began as a personal collaboration between friends became a wider exploration of how we adorn ourselves and our spaces. If this is the beginning of an era where jewellery and art overlap more fluidly, it’s one we’ll be watching closely.
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