artist statement

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Whether my works are large-scale public sculptures or small-scale jewellery designs, they all derive their form from nature. The majority of those organic forms are taken from the Tasmanian wilderness and more recently the coastline of the Greek Islands.

From the Forest based works, I aim to translate saprophytes, leaves and twigs which are sourced from Tasmanian forest floor bed to become intricate artworks. The symbiotic relationship of the texture and the forest mirrors itself in my work via the relationship between jewellery and its wearer. My designs become a part of the wearer. Each piece of jewellery intimately follows the curves of the wearer's body, and at once, sprouts from the body and assumes its own form. By creating a symbiotic relationship between the wearer and the work I not only take my inspiration from the Tasmanian wilderness, but also embody the logic of the Tasmanian ecosystem.

Recently I have lived 2 summers in the Greek Islands where the ocean has started to take a new influence into my work. Whilst I retain the ethos of my forest works, this work begins to explore the textures of coral, shells and sea urchins. The original forms are manipulated in wax form before being cast into metal. They become abstract in shape whilst retaining the identifiable textures of the original object.