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Delighting in paradox and detail, my work playfully challenges our concepts of the undesirable and the unremarkable within the context of bodily adornment.

From apparently conventional jewellery that on closer examination is constructed entirely from tiny insects to seemingly accidental splashes and stains that subtly glitter with gems, I create visual contradictions that test the rules of fine jewellery and of attraction to mischievously explore the tension and delight that are found when the familiar becomes deliciously strange.

Look closer. Little is what it seems…




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