JEWELLERY: Tatty Devine ‎2 HAPPY Necklace

Tatty Devine x Rachel Maclean

Layer up with the 2 HAPPY Necklace. Tatty Devine have reimagined Scottish artist, Rachel Maclean’s multimedia work as a playful multi layered necklace, balancing alternating emoticons and hyperreal symbols. Swinging from adjustable gold-tone chains, digitally printed topsy-turvy cartoon faces sit alongside glossy heart and glittering teardrop charms. Designed and handmade in Britain, this piece is complete with an official Tatty Devine X Rachel Maclean tag.

Blur the line between fairy-tale and reality with this new ground-breaking jewellery collaboration with Scottish artist, Rachel Maclean. Inspired by the cute colour pop aesthetic of her ‘upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop’ installation at Jupiter Artland in Edinburgh, combined with the sinister edge portrayed in the tale of Maclean's first fully animated heroine, Tatty Devine X Rachel Maclean transforms instantly recognisable iconography into wearable works of art.

Designed in London and handmade in Kent, see shimmering gold mirrors, colour-blocking recycled yellows that contrast with pinks and glossy blues turn Maclean’s hyper-real nature and glossy veneer into the perfect companion to Tatty Devine's signature laser cut acrylic jewellery. Take your pick from larger-than-life emoji earrings with sparkling hearts and expressive emoticons, kawaii doll eye rings, subversive statement necklaces and witty upside-down jewellery.

Dimensions

Total chain length including design measures 42cm - 47cm. Linked design measures approx 12cm x 11cm. Face piece measures 2.9cm x 2.9cm

Care

Keep water, perfume and other sprays and lotions away from your jewellery, as moisture can discolour metal parts. Always store and transport your jewellery in its box.

Rachel Maclean was born in Edinburgh and received her BA (Hons) from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. As a multimedia artist, her work is often set in the digital realm, in the form of print and film.

Rachel Maclean’s work is, at first glance, bright and whimsical, but deeper inspection reveals dark meanings and a menacing reality. Maclean’s inspiration comes from a variety of places including pop culture, horror movies, television, music, video games, and reality television.

Dovecot first connected with Maclean at the National Gallery, London in 2018, where she was exhibiting The Lion and The Unicorn, alongside Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen. Conversations continued with the artist through 2019 and 2020 as a design for a set of rugs evolved. The two rugs were completed by Dovecot’s tufters, Louise Trotter and Ben Hymers, in November 2021.

This set of seemingly identical rugs is a dark representation of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (Body Dysmorphia), a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance, flaws that are often unnoticeable to others. The main character in the set of rugs is Maclean’s animated character, Mimi. The images represented alongside her include ‘duck-rabbits’ and ‘horse-frogs’. These creatures symbolise those flaws that, once noticed, cannot be unseen. They are hung side by side and each one is an upside-down, and reversed, version of the other. Stylised writing in each piece reads ‘I’m Fine’ which is seen as ‘Save Mi’ when read upside down, illustrating the harsh realities of mental health disorders such as Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

The design is connected to Maclean’s character Mimi, who featured in her permanent outdoor installation for Jupiter Artland 2021. The rugs were displayed in an exhibition of Maclean’s work at Josh Lilley Gallery in London at the end of November 2021 and in Dovecot's exhibition Scottish Women Artists: 250 Years of Challenging Perception, 28 July 2023– 6 Jan 2024.