Blanche Tilden—ripple effect: a 25 year survey

This 25 year survey of the work of Melbourne-based jeweller and maker Blanche Tilden will reveal her remarkable and critically acclaimed practice. Tilden has a unique approach to her materials, in particular, glass, which she explores both as a material for jewellery making and deploys as a metaphor for the connections between making, industry, the wearable object and the body. Her fascination with mechanical devices, fuelled by a desire to understand how things work, continually inspires her work.

This first comprehensive survey of Tilden’s career will include historical and contemporary works loaned from numerous public and private collections. Tilden will reinterpret previous work to create new forms that expand on her preoccupations with value, mechanical movement, and industrial and architectural uses of glass, translating something of the macro immensity of the built and material world to the intimacy of the jewellery object.

^{This exhibition celebrates the City of Greater Geelong’s designation as a UNESCO City of Design and Blanche Tilden’s remarkable 25 year career at the nexus of art and design.}

A Geelong Gallery touring exhibition 

Geelong Gallery, VIC, from Saturday 8 May to Sunday 1 August 2021

UNSW Galleries, Sydney, NSW, from Friday 20 August to Saturday 20 November 2021

National Art Glass Collection/Wagga Wagga Art Galler, NSW, from Saturday 4 December 2021 to Sunday 13 February 2022

Jam Factory Seppeltsfield, SA, from Saturday 26 February to Sunday 1 May 2022

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD, from Saturday 2 July to Sunday 4 September 2022

Canberra Museum & Gallery, ACT, from Saturday 12 November 2022 to Sunday 19 February 2023