Twin sisters Catherine and Jennifer Strutt are visual artists working collaboratively and exhibiting professionally since 1995.
They are well known in the art community for their intriguing and often humorous constructions in aluminium, collage and painted wood and have built up a large following for their work in Sydney and Newcastle.In 2003 their work was hung as a finalist at the ArtGallery of NSW in the prestigious Sulman Prize and is in many private collections including the director of the Museum of Contemporary art, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor.The Strutt Sisters have been described by critic John McDonald as “Newcastle’s next big thing waiting to happen” (Daily Telegraph, May 2003), and by Ruth Skilbeck as “Newcastle’s hottest contribution to contemporary art” (Australian Art Review, Feb. 2004).
Strutt art is now wearable!
Taking the knowledge of construction,colour and design from their extensive experience in artmaking, the Strutt Sisters have designed accessories for everyday wear born from a frustrating lack of lightweight funky jewelry in the common maketplace. Inspired by the colours and traditional costumes of Scandinavia, a land they have travelled extensively, every piece has been made by hand in distinctive Strutt Sisters style and is alive with the colour and pattern of bygone years and the clean and simple shapes evocative of classic scandinavian design. …as if created by the hand of a girl in her summer house in the Finnish archipelago.
