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King Britt is Djing the closing party of the Society of North American Goldsmiths woohooo! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Me-EVGH08[/youtube]

Jewelry making experiments with recycled materials continues to bring exciting new discoveries to my studio. I really enjoy making jewelry that challenges me as well as the wearer to reconsider traditional perceptions of what we think jewelry is or should be. Since my exploration of exclusively using recycled materials in jewelry began earlier in the […]

Would mine for gold in the National Cathedral? Stop the destruction of the sacred shrines of Shoshone Nevada! Sacred sites are threatened by gold mining Canadian Barrick Gold wants to expand the Cortez gold mine in Nevada onto Mt. Tenabo, a site sacred to the Western Shoshone nation. The mine expansion would disturb sacred Shoshone […]

I just love visual tension and contrasts, within them there are so many surprising textures, emotions + experiences. I often incorporate contrasts and tensions in my jewellery too through use of textures, materials + even through the way I design and fabricate my work. My Fluff collection for instance creates interesting tension between the soft […]