Inca Starzinsky
Inca Starzinsky attends the Friday Worshops at K2 Jewellery Academy to complement her existing arts and design education. She chose this project-based course to expand her artistic career and to be able to make high quality professional jewellery that requires goldsmithing skills. Having started at K2 as a beginner, she has gained fine jewellery skills and applied them to projects. The element of play influences her final pieces; Inca allows her design process to evolve naturally from experimenting with various new materials, while keeping an open mind about the outcome.
Artist’s statement about her work:
All my projects have a concept or central idea as their starting point. My work is personal, stemming from a state of mind or an experience. I tend to have a good idea of what the outcome will be but often during the process, through success or failure of realising this visualisation, the result can change. I enjoy this path because it frequently involves exploring or discovering techniques and materials that are new to me. Colour is of great importance to me. So too is form, but colour can give an object an extra dimension, an emotion. My background is in graphic design, printmaking and printed textiles. My textiles studies involved tactility and playing with materials and thus added an extra dimension to the shapes and the colours in my work. I like offsetting them all against each other. Why jewellery? I like the direct relationship between an object and the body. However, on the most recent pieces I have designed, I concentrated on forms which can stand by themselves and could work as an object on their own as well as being worn. By removing the relationship of object and person in the photos, these pieces could be any size.
Follow Inca on Instagram @incastarzinsky / www.incastarzinsky.com.
About the experience at K2 Academy:
I discovered K2 Academy almost by accident, when I went looking for something else at the Cockpit Arts studio last June (2019). I liked the diversity of student work shown at the open day. For some time I had been keen to discover a course which allows me to combine and work with any kind of material, not just stones and metals. My background is in Graphic Design and Printed Textiles, and I was planning on using my existing skills with newly learned skills of fine jewellery making. I have completed several trimesters of the workshop now. Kelvin and Katrin have different approaches to jewellery design. Each has their own areas of expertise, I think, and the combination makes this course very “complete”. I especially like the openness to any ideas, they listen and understand.