Colouring my day : All Neon Like

about me, photography, surface design, the crafted object

  As you might know, I’m taking a kind of mini-break from the blog – but not disappearing completely. For the next little while, instead of full interviews with artists, I will be sharing a bunch of beautiful craft, surface design and photography,...

The crafted object : Melinda Young ~ contemporary jewellery

the crafted object

  Melinda Young loves plastic flowers. Not for decorating her dining room table with, but for pulling apart, for discovering what wonderful elements they are composed of – here, a pile of yellow stamens, another of green spiky seedheads, and over there, a...

The crafted object : Anna Davern

the crafted object

  Cultural identity – what makes us who we are, and how we respond – is a constant source of fascination for Anna Davern, contemporary jeweller and artist. Driven by notions of heritage and of Australian-ness (whatever that might include), her work is...

How-to : Choosing your materials for jewellery – Part (ii) – non-precious metals

the crafted object, tutorials

  This is the second part in my How-to on jewellery metals, and this one’s about the common non-precious metals used in jewellery. I’ve written it with the beginner-jeweller in mind, because I am absolutely passionate about excellence in...

The crafted object : Helen Britton

the crafted object

  Helen Britton is a collector of trinkets and a maker of note. All those plastic and glitzy reinventions of the precious and rare, fresh from fleamarkets and places more humble fill her studio – a treasure trove of the banal awaiting reinvention...