GIVEN that the Museum of Scotland's 12 Paolozzi figures - which look set to become one of its biggest attractions, particularly with kids - have been designed partly as a display device to ''wear'' pieces of ancient jewellery, it is doubly appropriate that modern jewellery made by Emma Paolozzi should be on sale in the new museum shop.
Paolozzi's body-part jewellery (miniature hands, heads, and feet), produced in collaboration with her father, mimics the robotic-style figures in the Early People gallery so successfully that most visitors assume they were the sole inspiration for it.
But, as Emma Paolozzi explains: ''Like many artists, there are images that my dad uses which recur throughout his work. That's why the new figures in the Museum of Scotland are instantly recognisable as his and why people immediately make the connection between them and the jewellery on sale in the shop. In fact, the Eduardo Paolozzi collection came out before the new figures were made.''
Although there are certainly instances of children following in the footsteps of artist parents, the Paolozzi collaboration may be the first of its type. But whose idea was it?
Emma says: ''I'd been designing jewellery for people like Paul Smith and Nicole Farhi for a number of years when my dad appeared with some little clay Paolozzi heads. I said: 'These would make really good jewellery,' but I believe he had already begun thinking along those lines himself.''
Other typical Paolozzi images - such as feet and the clenched fist - were selected, scaled down, carved in wax from which a rubber mould was made, cast in chunky solid silver, then finished off.
And so the Eduardo Paolozzi jewellery collection of decidedly dinky and affordable (#55 to #100) bangles, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, keyrings, cufflinks, and ear-rings was born, each piece bearing the unique ''E+EP'' father and daughter hallmark.
''Dad leaves the designing entirely up to me,'' Emma explained, ''but I always run any new ideas by him first because I'm very respectful of artists' work and I want him to know exactly what I'm doing.
''The jewellery will only ever be on sale in a very limited number of gallery and museum outlets - currently only the Tate in London, the Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, and New Museum stock it - and only those that have dad's work. That keeps it special to the people who buy it and means I'm free to get on with my other collection.''
Another future outlet for the jewellery will, of course, be the new Paolozzi Museum in Edinburgh, scheduled to open in March next year.
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