FELIEKE VAN DER LEEST BUNNY BUM NECKLACE

Bunny Bum
2010
unique color combinations

This necklace is a knitted version of a very adorable bunny tail.

Since it is made of rubber, it can be worn completely over the head.

A necklace created for an exhibition held at "Gray Area", the first jewelry symposium in Latin America in 2010. The exhibit, held at Mexico City's oldest and most elegant candy shop, Dulceria de Celaya, was filled with sweetly colored pieces inspired by candy.
The glass pearls on the necklace that connect to the carefully woven bunny tail are reminiscent of the beaded necklace-shaped candies that Felieke loved as a child. A cute necklace that gives off a sweet scent.

Size
Motif: 7 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
Neck circumference: 41cm (rubber)

Material: textile (polyester/polyamide, viscose), glass beads, elastic

Country of origin: Norway

Felieke van der Leest Felieke van der Leest
Dutch artist living in Norway. She
In 1986 she began training as a traditional goldsmith and in 1991 enrolled in the jewelery class at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Here she finds a way of creating her work that combines her childhood loves of knitting and crochet with the techniques of jewelry making, combining her art and sense of humor. She began her career as an artist in 1996 after graduating.

She was born near a zoo and grew up hearing about elephants and giraffes being carried away by bulldozers run by her parents' company, and she incorporates figurines of her favorite animals into her work. Invent something. She orders figures from toy manufacturer catalogs, disassembles and welds them, dresses them in carefully woven knitwear, and combines them with jewels and parts skillfully made from silver and gold. We are making it into an art piece.

In her more than 20 years of activity, she has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums, and her unique animals, which have received worldwide acclaim, have the dignity of being wearable art. Masu.