When you meet somebody new you know what to do. Culture has taught you that. It taught you what to do and what to feel. It’s like a small certainty in an unsure situation.
Every culture has its own typical figures in jewellery. These figures are full of stories, feelings and behaviour. Elwy Schutten used this figures stamped with the drop hammer into a flat plate, to form a pattern. She asks herself: What do they say in combination? How does the soapstone, the outer layer of your identity relate to this pattern?
How does culture influence your identity?

Elwy Schutten was born in 1990 in Winterswijk in the Netherlands and lives in Maastricht. In 2011, she completed her goldsmith training at the Schoonhoven vocational school and then studied jewelry design at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts. During this time she worked as a trainee for the well-known jewelry designer Jasmin Matzakow. In 2016 she received the “Encouragemet prize Thesis” from “Art Thesis Zuyd”, in total she was nominated for 2 more prizes.

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