Warwick Freeman: fifty years of jewelry and a show that finally maps it all

Warwick Freeman came to jewelry through a school friend who claimed he knew how to make it, an overland trip from Europe to Australia, and a 40 percent import tax that meant there was very little competition when he joined Fingers gallery in Auckland in 1978. His solo exhibition Hook Hand Heart Star has toured from Die Neue Sammlung in Munich to Objectspace in Auckland, and opens at The Dowse in Lower Hutt on 25 July. He joins Culture 101 to discuss a career that has resisted chronology, and why his earliest work holds up beside the newest.