Adornment + Control

This body of work considers adornment as both object and signal. Through jewellery and photographic works, the pieces reveal how systems of value, labour and social expectation shape what we wear and how we present ourselves.

Galvanised Crisis

Responding to the Cost of Living Crisis and the fall in ‘real’ disposable incomes, Galvanised Crisis reuses the steel and caged wire forms of discarded shopping baskets, drawing on principles of the circular economy.

Once accessories of consumption, these baskets become jewellery that questions the value and affordance of what they once carried. In their transformed state, the work invites reflection on shifting perceptions of worth, necessity and appreciation.

Domestic Chains

With ambiguity between movement and freedom, a necklace can be removed from the neck, but in life detachment is rarely so simple. For many, the act of struggle continues.

Domestic Chains engages with the balance of strength, fragility and power within the home. Usually hidden from public view, domestic pressures are presented as a series of oversized statement necklace nooses. In bringing these forms into the public sphere, the work exposes struggles that often remain unseen.