Jacqui Chan: Exotic Blend

Object Space:

Jacqui Chan: Exotic Blend

• “A reflection upon cross cultural heritage, Jacqui Chan's Exotic Blend signifies her desire, as a contemporary jeweller, to embody the particular form of chinoiserie endemic to her New Zealand upbringing.”

• “The artist notes that "growing up initially in bicultural Whakatane and later the homogenous Pakeha-dominant South Island, there was little reflection of our Chinese half in life outside our home. It was therefore somewhat natural that our sense of Chineseness became entwined with domestic objects.”

• It is very interesting because when I brought in all my objects that was exactly what I was thinking!

• The only representation of my mixed cultures was at home so people didn’t understand, it was hard to find somewhere that would feel familiar: like I was welcome there.

• http://www.objectspace.org.nz/Exhibitions/Detail/Exotic+Blend