Carlson practice focuses on a non-toxic, recycling/upcycling and repurposing, objects and jewellery.
She explore new ways of redefining the notion of Value in Jewellery but mostly in life.
In April 2023, Craig Potton Gallery presented during Nelson Jewellery Week her solo exhibition, the Magpie Nest Project, resulted of decluttering 30 years of impulsive consumption,
Now, she forages, harvests, finds, recycles discarded pieces the sea gives back.
Wabi Sabi, circular sustainability, slow-made.
“Discarded, rejected, amputated objects and porcelain.
I repair, adorn, stitch. I make and I talk for the forgotten."
Béatrice Carlson
I have been mudlarking porcelain shards on the beach for the last 3 years or so.
I photograph and research their/our provenance and circa, what they were made of. I feel the need to pursue their story or create a new one, I feel the responsibility to be their voice.
Keeping their original shape and colour, I polish and drill them if I have to but, my intrusion in their bodies stays minimal. I want to keep the identity of each piece, stone, pearl. Then, I adorn with discarded beer cans bits, raw sapphire, imperfect Freshwater Pearls, recycled Sterling and other found metal bits, silk, cord.
Wabi Sabi
The "most common" found porcelain shards are mostly blue and white when the only pigment that could resist very high temperatures in the kiln was cobalt, Lapis Lazuli.
It helps to relativised the notion of value.
My work is about reducing compulsive consumption by focusing on upcycling/repurposing and rethinking the notion of preciousness…
Circular sustainability, Slow Made, Wabi Sabi