My Rings and Things

new stockist

Contemporary Craft Lab, 2010 at Manchester Metropolitan University Degree show.

I was very lucky at my degree show to be selected by snug gallery to have a selection of my work stocked there.

This wednesday we did a photo shoot of my jewellery at Islington Mill in Salford. The setting was perfect, a decaying attic with a collection of accumulated junk, unused furniture, artwork, pigeon carcasses......

A black shawl, looks like a nomadic pin, a storyteller or traveller. A different side to my work, opening possibilities from it just being an pretty piece of jewellery.

emerald diggers

esmeraldero or esmeralda?

This illegal mining activity is policed by the National Police, but arrests are infrequent and jail sentences usually short. More quaqueros are shot and killed than sent to trial. Generally, a quaquero or esmeralda he is more in danger from other quaqueros and the land, yet the lure for instant riches overcomes any danger.

It's not so bad

to be stuck in Milan

Danish Crafts with thought provoking ideas, making me rethink the importance sourcing more ethical materials

Bit of cut and paste

I went to the Scala theatre museum to see a costume exhibition, it was beautiful, the costumes weren't period more Eastern European gypsy and folkish. Unfortunately I couldn't take photographs, the memorabilia there documented the theatres star performers on and off stage and also the influence of the composers, Verdi and Motzart with their locks of hair in lockets and paintings of Verdi dead. It was a preference for the older generations it seemed but i really liked it, its grand and over the top but the objects displayed in the white and gold glass cabinets told were really similar in appearance and content to what I want to create, portraits and objects preserved through hanging objects. The costumes were amazing if not a little unsettling.