Author: Jack Hadley

  The title ‘Object Runway’ alludes to the reality television series ‘Project Runway’, where fashion designers compete against each other in challenges. Circulating the space on a motorised pulley system are aluminium mobiles. Loosely anthropomorphic, these mobiles combine the language of jewellery and logic-tree diagrams. The way these mobiles move through spaces is based upon… Continue reading Object Runway

Left: Hannah Ireland, Closed Curtains, 2020  Right: Jack Hadley, Baroque Flower Indigo Storm Blue, 2020 Image: Weasel gallery Two weeks ago, I exhibited my jewellery for the first time. This was part of the exhibition HANDSHAKE IN HAMILTON at Weasel Gallery. 11 of the HS6 jewellers displayed work alongside the paintings of Hannah Ireland Below… Continue reading HANDSHAKE IN HAMILTON

My jewellery practice has typically incorporated traditional jewellery materials: silver, gold and cheap gemstones. Recently, this has started to feel expensive and a bit limiting. I have started playing around with some new materials like aluminium, lead and rubber. These materials  are industrial, heavy duty and toxic. I have been enjoying playing with expectations of… Continue reading My Glamorous Life / Studio Experiments

During lockdown, I set up a a studio in the basement of my flat. It’s messy and damp, but it has been a wonderful space to have. It is very makeshift. I use paint buckets as stools and often work on floor. There is a fire extinguisher prominently installed to ease my flatmates concerns about… Continue reading Makeshift Studio and Image Dump

Turning up on the first day of JEWELcamp I felt like a total impostor. I’m not a ‘real jeweller’ but a gleeful hobbyist. I haven’t gone to jewellery school. I’m impatient and I don’t know how to do things properly. Instead I go to jewellery night classes and watch bezel setting tutorials on YouTube. JEWELcamp and… Continue reading IMPOSTER