“I have been wondering for a while now what my spirit animal might be. Breaking news: I’ve found it, delivered to me by way of mystic vision. I dreamt of a ruru talking to me from a tree only to find an image in my inbox of eight beatific owls, each one for Objectspace.
Who better to conjure an apparition than master jeweller Octavia Cook. For twenty years she has been in the business of adornment autobiography. You don’t need words when you have the crisp punching lines of Cook’s cameo acrylics.
To don this brooch is a demonstration of your proximity to elegance of the highest order. It is also a badge of honour – for the creative dreamer, the true craft believer. It is a ticket into an eight limbed fellowship, welcome to the O&O hall of fame.” – Kim Paton
Octavia Cook
O & O Brooch (gold on white), 2024
Acrylic, silver
Edition E/8
$1,600
Courtesy of Anna Miles Gallery
We’ve commissioned five unparalleled makers to create their own unique series of Objectspace limited editions for Weekly Objects 2024. All proceeds go to the artist and Objectspace. Win. Win.
Artist Bio
Octavia Cook, born in Auckland in 1978, is a jeweller based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Cook’s work is represented in public and private collections in Aotearoa and overseas including those of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, the Dowse Art Museum, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Otago Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (UK) and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (USA). She is represented by Anna Miles Gallery.
