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Songül Aral

«29»

imitate natures hands
Sustainable Contemporary Jewelry Brooch Designs 3
In this exhibition, 29 brooch designs were made to commemorate the anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, October 29.
In these designs, glued dough, waste starched fabrics, waste leather pieces were used and brooches imitating nature were designed.
There is a hand figure in each design and it is especially white in color.
The phrase «Ak hands of my mother» is widely used in Turkish. Behind the main purpose of the exhibition, a sub-purpose supporting sustainable natural life was determined to try to imitate the hands of mother nature and to express admiration for nature.
The names of the works consist of numbers between 1 and 29.le

As this exhibition has expired, a video of the virtual exhibition was recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel.

About Songul Aral

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Associate Professor Songül Aral is currently working as an Associate Professor of Design at the Faculty of Art and Design in Malatya Inonu University in Turkey. She has many studies focusing on traditional Turkish handicrafts, especially textiles and metal ethnographic jewelry techniques. She is a member of the Turkish Art Educators Association. In her latest studies, she has focused on sustainable jewelry designs using sustainable metals and textiles. She was invited as an academic visitor to conduct research in the 3D Jewelry Design PhD research group at the Faculty of Design at Loughborough University in England. During her academic studies between 2002-2024, she took part in projects examining traditional textiles and prepared two theses on traditional women’s metal jewelry and techniques in two local museums. She is honored to write Garland Magazine Stories supported by the World Arts Council. Her three books containing technical production information about Sustainable Turkish Jewelry are digital sustainable publications on Amazon Publishing House. She is pleased to be the only candidate to receive three grants from Turkey in the field of textiles in the COST 19131 European Textile Heritage. She is a supporter of interdisciplinary approaches to sustainable living.

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