“My fascination with the working processes interested me in gold & silversmithing at high school and now my love of those same simple actions of hammering, filing and soldering; the actual “building-up” of forms, maintains my interest. Likewise, my desire to use found objects from my immediate environment, be it a broken plate from the kitchen floor or a smooth, black pebble continues to be a dominant factor in my work. With table silver, my love of working on a larger scale with a metal like silver comes to the fore. As with my jewellery, strong asymmetrical shapes combined with structured surfaces makes for a haptic experience, the pieces wanting to be picked up and handled.


Artist Bio
Marcus Foley has been hand-making his distinctive pieces of jewellery and table-silver for twenty years. His work has been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally since 1990, including HIM/HER with Dore Stockhausen, e.g.etal, Melbourne, 2002. He is held in Public Collections at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, South Australian Art Gallery and the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. During 1982-84 he studied Gold & Silversmithing, RMIT University and in 1983 received the L. Pulzar Award. He shares his life and work-shop with Dore Stockhausen and their two children Linus and Jasper.