Jewellery & Objects

My Background is in contemporary art jewellery and object design, working primarily with mediums ranging from metals, timber and lacquer. My interest falls in the transition between materiality, technology and traditional craft skills for new translations in the appearance of surfaces and textural responses. I challenge and work with alchemic responses using alloys. In my work the notion between the static and moving object is a critical junction to determine points of reference and material diligence.

Research Dialogues

I create jewellery and objects to shift intercultural values and perspectives. These are formed by my personal migrational routes, multi-cultural identity and contemporary concerns of environment and place. I express this through the spaces and forces between material craft and design practices. As a maker, designer and educator I am interested in the ways objects are holders to stories, cultures, and knowledge.

Design Approaches

Dialogues are developed through the interdisciplinary approaches in design synthesising traditional art methods, graphic animation with gold and silversmithing techniques and digital technology combined with Japanese metal and lacquer application to create forms and surfaces that merge these ideas together.