The jewelry the iconic feminist artist made are strangely charming.
“It’s giving it a new dimension and a new voice to cameos,” said the company’s founder, Liz Swig, at the event. “To bring both of their works into 3D sculpture through 16th century art history, what could be better?”The history of cameos dates back to the 15th century, when women wore decorative charms to depict beloved family members or to send subtle messages to potential suitors . Napoleon, who wore a cameo on his wedding day, also founded a carving school for cameo-makers in Paris.
“My nursing self-portrait is like the Madonna and Child, but at the same time, you see a 40-year-old lesbian with tattoos who had a baby,” said Opie. “In a certain way, you can take the motif and push it to another place, so it has another iconography to it.” “That’s what I tried to bring to the cameos,” she went on. “Here’s this history, but how can we have a different conversation with that piece of history?”The idea was hatched when Swig saw Opie’s portraits at the Thomas Dane Gallery in London, where she photographed
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