Charles Lewton-Brain: Holding Rocks (Cage Series)

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Charles Lewton-Brain, "Holding Rocks (Cage Series)," 2019

Artist Talk with Charles Lewton-Brain Thursday, September 10 from 7 - 8:30pm

Join Charles Lewton-Brain, master goldsmith, artist, author and educator, for a virtual artist talk and discussion about Holding Rocks (Cage Series), currently on display at the Alberta Craft Gallery-Calgary.

Charles Lewton-Brain's work is concerned with nature, structure and drawing. His jewellery and research into compositional systems for metal working has been published internationally. He invented and disseminated foldforming, a system of working sheet metal new to the field.

In this body of work, Holding Rocks (Cage Series), Charles Lewton-Brain uses Albertan and Bow Valley river pebbles and rocks and then surrounds them with welded steel electroformed copper and gold. This work speaks to human attempts to control and possess nature, while making the pebble, the natural precious, elevating it, magnifying its importance. 

These are not wearable, they are objects to fondle, to contemplate, to wonder at.

Their scale is intimate; handheld.

Charles Lewton-Brain learned and worked in Germany, Canada and the United States. His work is concerned with nature, structure and drawing. His jewellery and research into compositional systems for metal working has been published internationally. He invented and disseminated foldforming, a system of working sheet metal new to the field. He received Canada’s highest honour for Craft, The Saidye Bronfman Governor General's Award. Charles also co-founded the Ganoksin Project with Dr. Hanuman Aspler in 1996, now the world’s largest educational website for jewellers. He has over 1000 pages of his writing there.