PROJECTS

EARLY WORK

Throughout my working practice travel and its influences can be seen in the making of furniture and more recently jewellery. The combination of architecture, coloured textiles and geometric patterns from various cultures can be seen in the work.

In my furniture the use of beaten metals and components seen within the collages are apparent; the jewellery similarly serves to show aspects of adornment and protection. In this more recent work I have used traditional skills of riveting, etching and the producing of textural surfaces which have resulted in a new phase of work.

NEW WORK – Power of the Object

This involves developing ideas around adornment and the beliefs of the power and protection of Amulets and Lucky Charms seen in many cultures up to the present day.

Such objects as the mobile phone posess an element of protection and importance that parallels the earlier cultures.