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His exuberant wearable objects are unique, and stunning from both a visual and a technical perspective. In 1995 he was joint winner of the inaugural Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for Jewellery, praised for the ‘lasting significance and daring brilliance’ of his jewellery. \n\r\nHis early jewellery incorporated recycled materials and found objects. Later he used disposable plastics from everyday life. His work charts a fantastical world inspired by nature and the surreal, its vivid and gleaming colours a combination of individually carved or turned acrylic elements and polyester resin, applied in layers like a precious lacquer and polished to a seamless whole.\n\r\nThis magnificent bracelet from 2001 shows Chang’s love of colour and form, and his absolute mastery of both the aesthetic potential and the technical constraints of his chosen materials acrylic and resin. He also has incorporated silver elements (something he explored through the second half of the 1990s) with the petal-like forms on the surface and the spheres on each of the acrylic points. The bracelet relates to several earlier ‘Wheel’ pieces by Chang now in American collections: the 1997 ‘Wheel’ in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the 1992 ‘Wheel’ in the Helen Drutt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Texas. It also has links with his bracelet of 1995 now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.\r\n","physicalDescription":"A vibrant bangle of generously rounded profile with ten spikes protruding above and below, each topped with a silver sphere. The curved band is decorated with reflecting geometric panels of silver (those adjacent to the inner edge forming stylized flowers) amidst a vivid coating of resin in maroon, orange, purple and two shades of blue. The green bases of the spikes connect to the body in a seamless curve, with bands of purple and deep orange above. Dotted over the whole outer surface are small jewel-like cabochons of orange, pink, yellow and green translucent acrylic. The inner surface of the bracelet is lined with vertical ribs of a darker orange, with a slender horizontal rim of the same colour, made in five sections, at top and bottom.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Chang, Peter","id":"C6284"},"association":{"text":"designed and made by","id":"x28674"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"acrylic","id":"AAT14426"},{"text":"polyester resin","id":"AAT14546"},{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"},{"text":"wood","id":"AAT11914"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"},{"text":"turning","id":"AAT53158"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved and turned acrylic, with polyester resin and silver on a wooden core.","categories":[{"text":"Jewellery","id":"THES48930"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Plastic","id":"THES49026"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2024NX2539","2024NX2543","2024NX2542","2024NX2541","2024NX2540","2024NX2538","2024NX2534","2024NX2533","2024NX2530","2024NX2529"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"91","id":"THES49703"},"free":"","case":"53","shelf":"A","box":"1"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bracelet","id":"THES250813"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Glasgow","id":"x28891"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2001","earliest":"2001-01-01","latest":"2001-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Barbara Santos Shaw Chang and sons","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"112","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"184","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Barbara Santos Shaw Chang has noted that the bracelet was first worn at the opening of Peter Chang’s touring exhibition 'Its Only Plastic' at the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, then subsequently for the openings at the exhibition's other venues. She wrote ‘We needed a Bobby Dazzler for me to wear for the 2002 opening of the retrospective It’s Only Plastic. The show was already hung so the Bobby Dazzler did its work on my wrist and caused a sensation as hoped!’ ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bracelet, multi-coloured acrylic, polyester resin and silver on a wooden core, designed and made by Peter Chang, Scotland, 2001.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"The construction of the bracelet has been described as follows: The inner band is acrylic, cut and carved with a fine acrylic rim and inner surface cut in segments, the whole turned and placed to fit the overall circumference of the main body. The silver was applied first, formed to fit the surface shape of the piece. Layers of coloured resin were then applied over the silver to create the overall surface and the whole was buff polished after the drying process of each application.  The surface is finished with turned droplets of acrylic. The ’Spikes’ are turned wood covered with resin, attached to the body and polished, the tips are silver balls.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.12-2024"],"accessionNumberNum":"12","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":2024,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-21","recordCreationDate":"2024-03-22","availableToBook":false}}