Thursday 8 December 2011

December.



end of first module, work to be assessed...

Workshop Blues.









pieces created after endless amounts of cuts, scraps and hours filing, technical exercises that aren't perfect but definitely handmade...

Model Image Project.








objective was to produce a personalised photographic image from a 3D model.. cardboard discs slotted together, working spontaneously, object did not have to be recognisable, final outcome is a beautiful image from an unexpected material..

Knit Knit Knit.








bracelets french knitted from old tights and string, reconstructing materials used in everyday life in pieces that beautifully adorn the body, mould around wrist and retain shape...


knit rubbish, knit life...




connecting rubbish to everyday, joins need to be more seamless..

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Knit Rubbish.




Transformation of a material through french knitting, altering plastic tape into something delicate...[Junk To Jewellery]

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Junk to Jewellery.


First Project, 

















 Exploring personal collection of found and discarded objects, creating something precious out of rubbish, transforming unused materials into pieces which can carry sentiment, simple as attaching rubbish to the body, working with methods of attaching, geometric shapes, multiples...





Natural History Musuem, Tring, October 2011.

BA (Hons) Jewellery & Accessories...





 











Drawing from preserved lives, pearl extensions of birds of paradise, claws of polar bear, teeth of wild dog, endless metres of snakes skin, un-natural colours, beauty of growing chick in egg, patterns, scales, bones, exaggerated versions of reality, knitted-like coral, eyes forever staring.