Concept

brief: Present the concept of your jewellery. 

No photos-of / speaking-about   your jewellery.

Maca Bernal

Title: Unpack

Maca Bernal ON-E(HS6) Concept Video A short video made for Estela Saez’s masterclass ON-E(HS6) under the Handshake 6 mentorship programme. The task was to make a 30 sec video about the concept of my jewellery without showing the jewellery, using whatever was at hand.

Mia Straka

title: 365

365 daily drawings across 2020 -2021 edited into a 30 second stop motion movie. Each drawing documents a 24 hour period in the life of contemporary jewellery artist Mia Straka.

Simon Swale

title: A Concept for Jewellery

How do we locate ourselves in the contemporary world? Can we distinguish been the virtual and the real? Is the virtual real, and is the real such a virtue? When I see myself online- am I here or am I there, and how do I know….?

Aphra Cheesman

title: ‘Let’s take a walk’ 

An exploration of creative process and concept accompanied by a quote from ‘A Walk’ by Cornelie Holzach in ‘Ute Uitzenhöfer Schmuck’.

Antonia Boyle

Title: Buried

My work explores the impermanence of life, the patterns of this echo both in our own lives and the nature around us.

Jack Hadley

Title: Jewelry Making For Absolute Beginners

Things that inform my jewellery practice:

Youtube tutorials, fidget spinners, custom cars, postmodern furniture, ‘Faberge’ eggs, Alexander Calder.

Nina van Duijnhoven

Title: Extract the eternal from the ephemeral. (Charles Baudelaire)

I often explore ephemerality in my work.

Amelia Rothwell 

Title: Untitled

Fran Leitch

Title: Strand  (2021)

To have a shadow is to have a soul. The scalp holds the living hair. The pull removes two hairs by the root. The fingers deftly tie the two strands together to form a new life for the discarded corporeal material.  

Nikki Perry

Title: A crunchy pickle

Have we bitten off more than we can chew? Contemporary jewellery artist Nikki Perry puts found material to good use.

Susan Videler

Title: Heartfelt

The tugging of heart strings.

Michelle Wilkinson

Title: Held

Moments of quiet connection and tenderness in a busy world.