{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1775583"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1775583/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2024NX6828/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2024NX6828/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2024NX6828","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2024NX6829","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1775583/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1775583","accessionNumber":"M.13-2024","objectType":"Brooch","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"Peter Chang (1944-2017) trained as a sculptor at Liverpool School of Art and the Slade School, London. 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\nAmusing and quirky, this brooch from 1995 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. The webbed foot or wing is a recurring motif in his work. A similar circular form flanked by webbed feet features on a larger scale in his frame for a wall mirror from 1993.","physicalDescription":"Circular brooch with webbed wing-like protrusions on either side. The outer ring is of mottled blue, green and turquoise resin dotted with gold granules of different sizes, each of which sits in a darker blue lacquer surround. The central red boss has seven pinnacles of striped resin (shades of yellow, pink, brown, green and red, with turquoise points) encircling a larger striped pinnacle (shades of pink, blue, red, orange and yellow) topped with a gold sphere. The 'wings' are black with translucent pink webs, each with a single gold sphere on the lower point. A black acrylic disc forms the back, with a single vertical steel pin.","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":"gold","id":"AAT11021"},{"text":"wood","id":"AAT11914"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"},{"text":"turning","id":"AAT53158"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved and turned acrylic, with polyester resin and gold on a wooden core.","categories":[{"text":"Jewellery","id":"THES48930"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Plastic","id":"THES49026"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2024NX6828","2024NX6829"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"009","id":"THES407567"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Brooch","id":"THES287566"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Glasgow","id":"x28891"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1995","earliest":"1995-01-01","latest":"1995-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Barbara Santos Shaw Chang and sons","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"123","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"65","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"27","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This brooch was made for the World Gold Council touring exhibition 'Or et Medailles' which opened at the Parc des Expositions de Paris in 1995. \nIt was also included in the solo exhibitions 'Peter Chang: A Visionary', Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki (2000) and American Craft Museum, New York (2000); 'Peter Chang: It's Only Plastic', touring exhibition Pforzheim, Berlin, Munich, Hanau and Idar Oberstein (2002-3); and 'Unnatural Selection: Jewellery, Objects and Sculpture by Peter Chang' Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2007). ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Brooch, multi-coloured acrylic, polyester resin and gold on a wooden core, designed and made by Peter Chang, Scotland, 1995.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":""}],"production":"The construction of the brooch has been described as follows: The brooches wings are carved, with webs of applied semi-transparent coloured resin. Each is attached as a constructed whole to the body of the piece with droplets of gold attached to the tips of the wings. \r\n\r\nThe outer ring of the brooch is built up of multiple layers of resin in the manner of lacquer, introducing colour in a controlled manner but subject to chance, which was part of Peter’s thinking. Each layer was polished many times before arriving at a final conclusion. \r\n\r\nThe central element of the brooch has eight conical inserts of resin. These elements (of multi-layered bands of colour) were constructed from blocks saved by Peter from previous works originally in liquid form (like ‘runny honey') to solidify and cut from when solid. These have been turned, worked and polished and set regularly within a circle of red acrylic, with a gold tip at the very centre, and turned blue acrylic tips on the outer seven. Polished gold droplets of varying dimensions are placed at seemingly random points around the outer body. These, and the wings, are surrounded by haloes of dark blue resin for accentuation. \r\n","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.13-2024"],"accessionNumberNum":"13","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":2024,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-21","recordCreationDate":"2024-03-22","availableToBook":true}}