ABOUT
Creating Joy & Happiness
Jariet Oloyé is a contemporary jewellery and objects artist. Her work is rooted in culture, heritage, and history.
Jariet inspiration to weave came from her childhood lived experience in the midst of Yoruba community artisans in Nigeria, where many were engaged in different crafts, utilizing locally sourced natural materials and narrating spoken traditional stories being passed from one generation to the next. Jariet was thoroughly inspired to be a creative that brings joy and happiness through materials: Metals, Glass, and Storytelling.
Growing up, Jariet grandmother played an important role as one of the artisans and an avid collector of artwork. Jariet was encouraged to play with different natural materials and participated in the arts of hand woven Yoruba renowned colourful traditional high textiles Asò-Òké, and basketry. These handcraft skills led her to study Jewellery and Silversmithing at London Metropolitan School of Art, Architecture and Design. It was there she obtained HND Design and Make -Jewellery, Silversmithing and Allied Crafts, and followed with a BA Hons., Silversmithing and Jewellery. All the knowledge and special skills she gained equips Jariet artistic ability, to develop a registered abstract looped form wirework design pattern that become her trademark.
Jariet contemporary sculptural hand woven pieces are of abstract faces of people in a group telling stories of a community and places. Each piece of work is crafted individually by hand, using traditional craft skills of weaving and silversmithing. Special attention is given to the form, scale, and texture, examining the relationship between touch, memory, and craftsmanship.
Fusion of Glass & Metal Alloy - Glass is light, Glass is Colour, Glass is Magic.
One cannot talk of glass as material without honouring the ingenuity of the craftsmen working in glass in Mesopotamia; the land between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers over 4,000 years ago. They discovered the art of mixing sand, soda, and lime to make material glass, heating it in open moulds and cast into objects.
Curiosity of these materials and captivating power of glass led Jariet to take courses in Kiln-formed Glass at Westminster Adult Education Service, where she explored the intrinsic relationship of metal and glass. ‘The alchemy, parallel and hot fusion of both mediums’. Jariet researched, experiments and developed own metal alloys which she successfully mixes with glass, using lost-wax techniques, and kiln-cast into aesthetic pieces of artwork, depicting the beauty of nature and the natural world. These are unique to each piece.
Jariet uses earth-friendly recyclable materials, with both traditional and modern techniques to create contemporary pieces of artwork.
