CONTAINED ADORNMENT

This body of work came from an exploration into the vessel as a host for a piece of jewellery, much like the idea of symbiotic relationships found in Nature such as lichen growing on a tree or barnacles attaching themselves to a whale.

I had experimented with a number of ways to illustrate this intention and landed on making the vessels out of porcelain using the method of slip casting. Porcelain exhibits a number of jewel like qualities that attract me to it, it is a material that needs to be handled with care and respect. When forming the material it has the delicacy of a pearl and when fired, the clarity and translucency of a well cut gemstone.

Porcelain, 925 silver, 22ct gold.

Exhibited at The JamFactory Centre for Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide South Australia, 2014

Image credit: Tom Roschi