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Jewellery TV
Hey there reader, it’s a very occasional YouTube roundup. I have Adam Savage first, with a bunch of jeweller-related material in his 2025 end-of-year roundup. Starting at 11m40sec but especially at the end of this vid (23m42s) he was talking in praise of what he calls a piercing (but we all know as a jewellers’)…
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Happy 2026 🙂
Hello! We’ve made it though the back end of ’25 and into a new year, with global shenanigans barrelling on (oohhh, barrelling, like oil?) at a pace that 2020 and our then content-starved senses couldn’t have ever fathomed. For those regular onlookers, you’ll note that usually I’ll post a Solsticefest greeting in time for the…
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open studio 2025
Y’all, we did it, we’re in! Please come help us celebrate the launch of the new house and studio, and the good friends who made it all happen. Katherine and Marco of vittinoAshe – our architects – will be around to talk house, I’ll be upstairs with studio deputy Susannah chatting art and jewellery, while…
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…moving
Y’all. It’s happening. Some of you have pieces of recycled jarrah that I’ve been passing around the country; these are jewellery-scale offcuts from our build. THE build, which has been going since March 2022. The build that is just about done. The build of the house and studio that has a lot of built-in furniture…
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Midland Workshop Series
Do your job well enough and they might give you more time to have more fun! Head over to Insta to see the full promo vid of what we’re getting up to. Are you the magpie always collecting shiny things on the street? Do you have a collection of beautiful finds in your house that…
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I ♥ ADC
ADC has just staged THE Helen Britton retrospective, endowing her with the Master Maker – Living Treasure of Australian Craft title, the latest in the series. That show, I’m reliably informed, will travel around the country, so I’m not as sad as I could be that I’m heading over just DAYS after it has been…
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Cheongju 2025 – the blossoming
The Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025: Recrafting Tomorrow is live, presenting uplifting, thoughtful, soulful, and just plain jaw-dropping craft until the 2nd of November. The Competition Exhibition is incredible, and peppered with an eye-bulging array of craft-forms. The Main Exhibition (of which myself, Jacky Cheng, the Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Susie Vickery are all a part)…
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Workshop – Thursday 11/9
Hello friends! Just a quickie – I’m back and full of stories from my South Korean Cheongju Craft Biennale adventure – keep an eye here and on socials for a bountiful week in review all this week… AND I’m leading a short class on reclaiming electrical copper wire to make jewellery this Thursday at MJAC. Please come…
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SICK AF is Art on the Move
SICK AF is touring with ART ON THE MOVE 2025-2027 On show at the Rose de Freycinet GalleryJuly 25 — Aug 31 2025Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery & Visitor CentreMalgana, Nanda and Yinggarda Country SICK AF delves into the personal narratives of artists who have navigated life altering illnesses or injuries, using art as a medium…
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Cheongju Craft Biennale
We’re going to South Korea! An IOTA delegation, if you will, is heading over to Re_Crafting Tomorrow, the Cheongju Craft Biennale, starting on the 3rd of September at the exhibiting artists opening. Our team includes Indian Ocean Craft Triennal alum Susie Vickery, Jacky Cheng and myself as exhibitors and speakers (they’re speaking at the Pecha…
