Fragments With a Future
Product Design and Craft BA final project
This jewellery collection is inspired by an abandoned, derelict industrial building and its decayed materials, which I believe have a unique beauty and character that reflect local history and experiences of life. To understand my attraction to the transformative process of time and the representation of memory in buildings and objects, my practise includes burning, patinating, oxidising, and carving. Through these techniques, I aim to create pieces that catch a snapshot of disappearing industrial sites and the beauty in the textures and patterns of their decaying materiality.
I have been influenced by Hermann Junger’s use of found materials, Taylor Fentz’s industrial jewellery, Suzanne Elstner’s charcoal pieces and Trinidad Contreras’ sculptural works based on everyday objects and textures.
By using materials that go unnoticed, or go to waste, I seek to create pieces that are both beautiful and responsible, which capture a sense of history and emotion in pieces that reflect the passage of time and the stories that are embedded within the materials themselves. My work carries a sense of narrative and emotional resonance, connecting wearers with their own personal histories and the wider stories of their environment, through the materials that surround them.
These pieces won the Ethical Metalsmith's Emerging Talent Award 2023
Where to Find it:
Online: So Fresh and So Clean Exhibition Winner
June 2024 Blue Coat Display Centre, Liverpool
April-May 2024 Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre
June- July 2023 New Designers, Business Design Centre
June 2023 Manchester School of Art
The amulet- captures the memory of the site- in the materials, the lichen covered branch, the shape. Not only does it hold my memory, when wearing it at the site it felt like a compass, guiding me to more abandoned treasures within.
These shapes, patterns and textures stayed with me in my memories of the mill. They are witnesses of the passage of time, sculptures of aging.
First trials
While exploring I like to pick up pieces of flakey paint, tufts of lichen and other little material souvenirs.
The capsule allowed me to contain and carry these mementos.
This collar piece explores climbing into the ruin- which involves ducking through rusty bars, getting dirty, opening rusty hinges...
It also captures and accentuates the shadows and the disarray of materials
