I would kindly like to thank Jewellery and Blacksmithing department for the opportunity to conduct “Oil Shale course”. Also I would like to thank my students who experienced tough emotional three-month period: I saw them obstinate and passionate, modest and expressive, sad and happy. And this is great, because we all have changed.
The story of this course is that Oil Shale Competence Center that is a successful organization concentrating upon the best domain know-how in oil shale mining, expressed an interest to create, with the help of Jewellery Department of Estonian Academy of Arts, jewellery or objects that is possible to use as a gift for their guests.
Down below You can see the pictures from assessment day (17.12.2015) that took place at Estonian Academy of Arts.
Erle Nemvalts / brooches / the oilshale colored with organic pigments
Erle Nemvalts, Nils Hilt
Lotta Koov / rigs / reconstructed oil shale ash
Merlin Meremaa / objects / oilshale, glass, vacuum package
Tanel Veenre, Ulvi Haagensen, Hannes Tõnuri, Nils Hint, Merlin Meremaa, Piret Hirv
Helina Risti / objects / hand cutted oil shale
Hanna Maria Vanaküla / pendants / shapes are cutted with lathe machine
Eve Margus-Villems, Hanna Maria Vanaküla, Lotta Koov, Sille Luiga, Helina Risti, Andreas Kivisild, Tanel Veenre
Kaur Virkebau / objects / electroformed oilshale
Kana Nakano / object / hand cutted oil shale
Kana Nakano / object/ CNC cutted oilshale
Selected works from courses Serial Jewellery (cond. by Piret Hirv & Eve Margus-Villems) and Breath (cond. by Tanel Veenre):
Erle Nemvalts
Hanna Maria Vanaküla / charcoal, resin casted in condoms