Portfolio
Throughout my first and second year of my Jewellery Design degree, I have acquired the traditional jewellery making techniques and challenged myself to explore the properties of unconventional materials to make pieces. These projects depict my journey through design, experimentation, exploration and fun.
Calm and Serenity
A neckpiece encompassing the ritual of making a warm cup of coffee in the morning and watching the milk disperse itself. Through lockdown, this brought me peace of mind in the midst of chaos.
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12 3D printed wax squares covered in cold enamel, linked with brass wire jump rings.
Clarity meets Nature
Inspired by the naturally occurring phenomenon of sedimentary rock layer, Zaha Hadid's architecture and Tony Cragg's organic sculptures, this project explores the dialogue between clear and opaque. I delve into this with two materials that have opposite properties: acrylic and wood.
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Layered, laser cut acrylic and lime wood.
Halsband
This project was driven by the material: lime wood; and drew inspiration from Scandinavian design aesthetics, mainly the close connection between form and function. The tapered square part of the necklace enables it to bend around the wearers neck with the help of the chains weight.
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Lime wood necklace
Soft Illusion
In this project, I challenged material properties by trying to make a metal appeal soft and silky. I did so by rolling out very thin sheets of copper and playing with bends and folds.
Hence, the name "Soft Illusion" explains how a hard material like copper can be transformed to look like a soft, smooth ribbon.
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Necklace and bracelet both copper sheet and wire
Net
This project aim was to use found materials and transform them into new ones. Using lemon nets, I challenged myself to create a new material by taking the netting apart and using acrylic paint to hold the swirl in place. I then thought of this piece in a jewellery context and imagined a playful ear piece.
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Lemon net and acrylic paint
In-between
Challenging the norms of conventional jewellery, this piece uses the negative space between the fingers to hold in place. While jewellery is known as something to be worn, I made this piece with the idea that jewellery is also something to be held and there to offer reassurance.
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Two 25x25 cm brass sheets domed and soldered