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I draw inspiration from the relationship between clothing and
jewellery. I am concerned with the qualities of the construction of
garments, the intimate feeling of the inside of a cardigan or the
diffused back of a piece of embroidery. Fragmented suggestions of
garments are combined with elements that are more closely
identifiable as pieces of jewellery, such as silhouettes of
traditional shapes, like beads. In the pieces of jewellery this
relationship between garment and jewellery becomes fused, with
muddled boundaries.
The main focus of my most recent body of work lies within the
exploration of material qualities and combinations, as in the group
of ‘crocheted’ jewellery where I mimic the language of crocheting in
metal and then extend the metal forms with actual crocheting using
colourful yarns.
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