Naama Haneman
Metalsmith
London, United Kingdom
Between chaos and order
- Naama devotes herself to vessels
- Her first specialisation is jewellery
- She was awestruck by silversmithing
Naama Haneman is a visionary, young metal artist. After specialising in jewellery at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, she worked as a jewellery designer for commercial brands, while exhibiting her own pieces in contemporary art and jewellery shows all over the world. Then she moved to London for a Master’s degree at the John Cass University: here she was suddenly spellbound by silversmithing and soon left jewellery. “For the first time it felt like I was in the right place for me. Working with metal on a big scale felt different from anything else” she says. Naama sculpts in metal through a movement renewed every moment by emotion, without any previous plan or intention to build a useful object, devoting herself completely to the vessels.
INTERVIEW
I’m grateful to two masters who gave me the basic knowledge and the love of the field: Vered Kaminski and Simone Ten Hompel. But wherever I work, I learn new techniques and ways to engage with the metal. I believe in sharing knowledge, I learn from students and colleagues as well.
I’m a silversmith and metal artist, combining fine art and applied art. I see artwork as something we connect to by touching, not just looking. It can be useful or decorative. But I do want it to be alive, in a relentless movement even after I’ve decided to finish it.
Chaos and order that co-exist in nature and objects inspires me to explore the meeting points and the contradictions between different shapes and compositions. I choose colours, materials and textures according to the contrast they made, searching how and where they become one.
I use traditional craft techniques to form contemporary shapes. A two-dimensional, flat sheet of metal is transformed into three-dimensional objects by heating, hammering, raising, chasing and repoussé (professional methods), with full control of the metal.
Naama Haneman
Metalsmith
London, United Kingdom
ADDRESS
Address upon request, London, United Kingdom
AVAILABILITY
By appointment only
PHONE
+44 7897798180
LANGUAGES
English, Hebrew
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