Andrea Daly (born 1965) is a

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jeweller and arts teacher. She studied at

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, completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1987. The following year, she gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts majoring in contemporary jewellery. In 1998, she completed a master's degree in Philosophy majoring in Art History at

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Early life

Daly was born in

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in 1965. She grew up partly in the

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, one of the first areas of European settlement in New Zealand and the birthplace of Roman Catholicism in the country. While no longer a practising Catholic, curator Philip Clarke noted in 2010 that 'Catholic knowledge and sensibilities remain deeply ingrained and these sensibilities continue to inform and be celebrated within her jewellery practice'.

Education

Art historians Damian Skinner and Kevin Murray give Daly as an example of one of the early jewellers to emerge from new tertiary courses in their 2014 history of contemporary jewellery in New Zealand and Australia. She studied at

Career

She became a partner in Fingers Contemporary Jewellery in 1991, and taught at the

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until 2004. According to

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, Daly "aims for integrity in her jewellery by seeking to make social commentary based on her own experience of a Catholic upbringing, and wants the ideas to ring true because they are more than superficial observations...Daly is interested in the function of jewellery as a signifier of the ways in which the body is understood and positioned in society." Her early work included icons of the Madonna, presented in brooches and pendants, in materials from gold-leaf to paper collages. She creates beaded and embroidered surfaces recalling religious garments and church adornments, and has used angel, heart, skull and wing motifs. She has also used Catholic ex votos in brooches. Daly has participated widely in group exhibitions, and held various solo shows. Her work was included in ''Open Heart'' (1993–94), ''Same but Different'' (1996) and ''Grammar: Subjects and Objects'' (2001), respectively the first, second and fourth biennial exhibitions of contemporary New Zealand jewellery organised by

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and ''Talking to me: Collecting and making'' at

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in 2010. Her work was also featured in ''Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery'', a touring exhibition of contemporary New Zealand jewellery curated by

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and

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and shown in 2014 at Galerie Handwerk in Munich and

References

Further sources

* The Dowse Art Museum; Eléna Gee
'Open Heart: Contemporary New Zealand Jewellery'
November 1993. * The Dowse Art Museum; Kobi Bosshard
The Second New Zealand Jewellery Biennial: Same But Different
1996. * Deborah Crowe; The Dowse Art Museum
4th New Zealand Jewellery Biennale: Grammar: Subjects and Objects
2001. {{DEFAULTSORT:Daly, Andrea 1965 births Living people New Zealand jewellers Date of birth missing (living people) People from Wellington City Academic staff of Manukau Institute of Technology Women jewellers