Finalist, National Contemporary Jewellery Award 2022

Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia

28 October - 18 December 2022

The Stream of Time 2022, three pendants

Copper, brass, sterling silver, 9ct gold, silver solders, cord, 110 x 80 x 1 mm

Photo of three pendants by Document Photography

The Stream of Time explores illusions of depth and movement in the surfaces of thin sheets of metal. Reminiscent of topographical views of the landscape, each pendant is constructed from excess metal accrued over many years of jewellery making including numerous test pieces and experiments in wire, cut into smaller lengths and twisted together or hammered flat. In this process of repurposing, that equally valorises humble and noble metals, the memory of time is fused in a flood of solder.

Moving back and forth between soldering and rolling methods, sheets of conglomerate metals are gradually formed. A final patination process miraculously transforms the pinkish copper into dark purples, white silver into dark grey, yellow brass into gold. During this culminating, transformative moment the solder reveals its painterly effects, seeping in-between and blurring the linear patterns like the ebb and flow of the sea washing over sand.