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Material: Hand dyed, laser sintered nylon

Dimensions: Approximate diameter 38 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Material: Hand dyed, laser sintered nylon

Dimensions: Approximate diameter 33 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Material: Hand dyed, laser sintered nylon

Dimensions: Approximate diameter 28cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Material: Hand dyed, laser sintered nylon

Dimensions: Approximate diameter 24 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Material: Hand dyed, laser sintered nylon

Dimensions: Approximate diameter 24 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Material: Hand dyed, laser sintered nylon

Dimensions: Approximate diameter 19 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

The Halo decanter is a centrepiece for any contemporary living area.

It’s wide and round form gives ample surface area for a rich red wine to open up. The wooden marble stopper prevents the decanter from filling with dust when not in use.

Paired with the Halo glasses, these decanters are a stunning addition to any living space.

Material: Hand Blown Glass

Dimensions:  Approximately  H 28 cm x D 18 mm x W 18 cm

About the Maker: Katie-Ann Houghton (KAH) aims to challenge the culture of mass consumption by creating work with innovative design and handmade quality. Katie’s design philosophy is based around the idea that the objects that we engage with every day should engage our senses and bring us joy through use.  

Designed to be both functional and practical, KAH aims to change the conventional expectations of tableware, and have us view each piece as both a piece of contemporary design and an object of use.

Katie-Ann Houghton is an Artist, Designer and Maker based in Sydney Australia. Her contemporary works are inspired by early 20th Century Design and embody a decade long passion for traditional Venetian glassmaking techniques.

Designed to pair with the Halo Decanter. 

Sold individually

The wooden marble sits between your fingers as you hold the glass, giving it stability in the hand. The wide bowl of the glass allows the wine to continue to open as you drink. 

Material: Hand Blown Glass

Dimensions:  Approximately  H 8.5 cm x D cm x 9 cm x W 9 cm

About the Maker: Katie-Ann Houghton (KAH) aims to challenge the culture of mass consumption by creating work with innovative design and handmade quality. Katie’s design philosophy is based around the idea that the objects that we engage with every day should engage our senses and bring us joy through use.  

Designed to be both functional and practical, KAH aims to change the conventional expectations of tableware, and have us view each piece as both a piece of contemporary design and an object of use.

Katie-Ann Houghton is an Artist, Designer and Maker based in Sydney Australia. Her contemporary works are inspired by early 20th Century Design and embody a decade long passion for traditional Venetian glassmaking techniques.

Q'on sushi settings from the kitchen of Nikki and Sophi Suttor. These handmade ceramics are perfect for appreciating sushi or other appetizers in the comfort of your own home. 

Materials: ceramics, slip cast 

Dimensions: 20cm diameter

Meet the Maker: Sophi Suttor's conceptual work examines the loss of habitat and its replacement by the generic she is looking at specimens through the filter of the work of Rohan Ellis. Producing fragments of the generic as a demonstration of how easily we lose the detail and cultural stamp of our personal landscape

Works are childlike and toy like to highlight how easily we are seduced by pretty things. Using lots of generic flowers and toy like items to highlight how readily we accept the generic. This acceptance erodes national identity and leads to devaluation of all things native to Australia this process is aided and abetted by globalisation.

Materials: buff silk, linen, wool, handwoven in Jennifer Robertson's home studio in Canberra

Dimensions: Approx 1700 x 330mm

Care: Warm hand wash in approved wool wash, spin dry, dry flat. Dry-Cleanable.

Meet the Maker: Acclaimed internationally for innovative and complex woven textiles, Jennifer Robertson uses a unique purpose built digital handloom and her works span a broad range of textile practice-led research outcomes including sculptural relief and miniature 3D artworks, interior and fashion. 

Thematic research focuses on exploring relationship between environment, human form, interior space and materiality through the use of weaving metaphors and analogies. Investigating the poetic and evocative nature of materials interplay using soft engineering, threads are constructed into often multiple layered structures imbued with sensorial, haptic properties.

Images Craft + Design Canberra  

Materials: Aluminum, sterling silver, stainless steel 

Dimensions: Green: Internal diameter 19.5 mm | Pink: Internal diameter 18 mm

Meet the Maker: Katie Stormonth is a contemporary jeweller based in Brisbane, Australia and was one of the founding members of Bench (a collective jewellery studio). She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours in 2011 and currently works as the technical officer at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. As an early career artist she participates regularly in exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. Her practice aims to expand the boundaries of wearable body adornment through experimentation of materials and forms. She constructs alluring arrangements of repetitious forms and painted surfaces, highlighting the patterns of bold and decorative chased line work, aiming to provoke the wearer to both see and feel the pieces.

Materials: Slip-cast carved and pierced porcelain

Dimensions: H 25.5 cm x W 23 cm 

Meet the Maker: Jo Victoria is a Canberra based ceramic artist with a love of the ocean. Her works are inspired by cultural and natural landscapes and ocean shores. She mixes organic materials with porcelain slips to create delicate, translucent, often haunting works that speak of deep time and the precariousness of life on earth.

Jo completed her Master of Visual Arts degree at the ANU School of Art in 2016 and has exhibited in group and solo shows in the ACT and region, the South Coast and in Denmark.

These studs are made from fine silver, with a sterling silver post and backing. They are thin and delicate, made to imitate fabric. As fabric is malleable, these earrings are also malleable if too much pressure is applied to them. 

Fine silver is even more precious than sterling silver with 99.9% purity. These earrings should be handled like the precious objects they are.

Materials: Fine silver, sterling silver

Dimensions: L 12 mm x W 4 mm x D 7 mm 

Meet the Maker: Nicola Knackstredt discovered silversmithing as an adult, and stepped away from a career as a human rights lawyer to pursue her interest. She studied Gold & Silversmithing at the Australian National University in Canberra, where she was recognised for excellence in gold and silversmithing in her first year of studies. Nicola has since turned her interest into a business.

Photo: Maddie Manning Photography 

These studs are made from fine silver, with a sterling silver post and backing. They are thin and delicate, made to imitate fabric. As fabric is malleable, these earrings are also malleable if too much pressure is applied to them. 

Fine silver is even more precious than sterling silver with 99.9% purity. These earrings should be handled like the precious objects they are.

Materials: Fine silver, sterling silver

Dimensions: L 17 mm x W 5 mm 

Meet the Maker: Nicola Knackstredt discovered silversmithing as an adult, and stepped away from a career as a human rights lawyer to pursue her interest. She studied Gold & Silversmithing at the Australian National University in Canberra, where she was recognised for excellence in gold and silversmithing in her first year of studies. Nicola has since turned her interest into a business.

Photo: Maddie Manning Photography 

The This Mess series explores our values and relationships with single-use plastic, transforming discarded waste into precious and one-off artefacts.

Each piece is individually sculpted from polystyrene, transformed into sterling silver and hand painted. 

Materials: sterling silver, enamel paint, stainless steel fastener.

Dimensions: Approx H 25 mm x W 20 mm

About the Maker: Polly Dymond creates contemporary jewellery objects from her studio at JamFactory Adelaide.

Dymond's current practice is driven by a deep love of the natural and elemental combined with despair over the loss of craftsmanship and disposability of contemporary objects and materials (plastic, plastic, plastic)! The resulting jewellery and objects possess a duality of process; forging and forming exploring ancient traditional techniques alongside the manipulation and metamorphosis of discarded single use packaging and plastics, transforming them into precious and permanent artefacts. 

Dimensions: 3cm diameter; length from hook, 6cm 

About the Artist: Sarra Tzijan is an Indian-Australian artist originally from Melbourne currently based at JamFactory in Adelaide, South Australia.

Tzijan’s practice spans sculpture, jewellery and design, focusing on the combination of traditional craft hand skills with contemporary art.

There is a strong reference to illustration that featured more prominently early in her career. Tzijan often treats the metal like paper, marking it in a way that is intuitive and spontaneous.

Tzijan often brings in other hands, voices and materials in her processes, acknowledging the importance of others in the making.

Dimensions: Internal diameter 14mm

Meet the Maker: Sarra Tzijan is an Indian-Australian artist originally from Melbourne currently based at JamFactory in Adelaide, South Australia.

Tzijan’s practice spans sculpture, jewellery and design, focusing on the combination of traditional craft hand skills with contemporary art.

There is a strong reference to illustration that featured more prominently early in her career. Tzijan often treats the metal like paper, marking it in a way that is intuitive and spontaneous.

Tzijan often brings in other hands, voices and materials in her processes, acknowledging the importance of others in the making.

Material: Cotton

Dimensions: L (excluding strap) 43 cm W 36 cm

Meet the Maker: Alison is a Canberra handweaver. She works primarily with natural fibres, especially wool, silk, cotton and cashmere. Alison is an active member of the Canberra Spinners and Weavers, and her work has been recognised with trophies and prizes at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, the Royal Melbourne Show and the Royal Canberra Show. 

These large candles are 350 ml of hand poured soy wax. Natural fragrance oils have been blended to create three custom crafted scents exclusively for POP by LUCIAN Candles. 

When your candle is finished refills are available from LUCIAN, or enjoy the beautiful vessel by Annette Blair as a large tumbler or small vase.

Made right here in Canberra!

Materials: Hand blown glass vessel with enamel details, hand poured soy wax.

Dimensions: Approx H 9 cm x W 8 cm

Meet the Makers: Designed and developed by POP Canberra with our local collaborators, LUCIAN and Annette Blair. 

Photos: Adam McGrath

"Roman Holiday" series is based on forms from ancient Roman archaeological digs. 

Materials: Recycled sterling silver, cast from a hand carved wax model. 

Dimensions: D 20 mm

Meet the Maker: Erin Daniell is a contemporary jeweller and visual artist in Adelaide, South Australia.  Her works explore the concept of beauty and imperfection, in the form of small-scale sculptures cast from hand carved wax or natural materials with traditional silversmithing techniques. As a female artist she believes that jewellery can be a powerful marker of identity and expression.

"Roman Holiday" series is based on forms from ancient Roman archaeological digs. 

Materials: Recycled sterling silver, and cast from a hand carved wax model. 

Dimensions: H 50 mm x W 25 mm 

Meet the Maker: Erin Daniell is a contemporary jeweller and visual artist in Adelaide, South Australia.  Her works explore the concept of beauty and imperfection, in the form of small-scale sculptures cast from hand carved wax or natural materials with traditional silversmithing techniques. As a female artist she believes that jewellery can be a powerful marker of identity and expression.

"Roman Holiday" series is based on forms from ancient Roman archaeological digs.

Materials: Recycled sterling silver, cast from a hand carved wax model. 

Dimensions: H 65 mm x W 25 mm

Meet the Maker: Erin Daniell is a contemporary jeweller and visual artist in Adelaide, South Australia.  Her works explore the concept of beauty and imperfection, in the form of small-scale sculptures cast from hand carved wax or natural materials with traditional silversmithing techniques. As a female artist she believes that jewellery can be a powerful marker of identity and expression.

"Roman Holiday" series is based on forms from ancient Roman archaeological digs. 

Materials: Recycled sterling silver, cast from a hand carved wax model. 

Dimensions: 250 mm curb chain | Pendant D 20 mm

Meet the Maker: Erin Daniell is a contemporary jeweller and visual artist in Adelaide, South Australia.  Her works explore the concept of beauty and imperfection, in the form of small-scale sculptures cast from hand carved wax or natural materials with traditional silversmithing techniques. As a female artist she believes that jewellery can be a powerful marker of identity and expression.

Materials: Glass

Dimensions: Length to pendant 34 cm Length to end of tassle 48 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Materials: Glass

Dimensions: Approx Length to pendant 34 cm | Length to end of tassel 48 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Materials: Glass

Dimensions: Approx Length to pendant 34 cm | Length to end of tassel 48 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Material: Glass

Dimensions: Approx Length to pendant 34 cm | Length to end of tassel 48 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Material: Glass

Dimensions: Approx Length to pendant 34 cm | Length to end of tassel 48 cm

Meet the Maker: Katherine Grocott is a contemporary jeweller and paper artist who focuses on jewellery as memory keeper, story teller and commentator on the world and an educator committed to helping students learn jewellery making skills.

Katherine’s work is quite visually strong and graphic featuring clean lines and contemporary, modern design. She appreciates minimalism and this features prominently in her work.

Over the years, her commitment to environmental sustainability has influenced Katherine’s design process. Recycled and found objects feature in her work, and she sources recycled metals as much as possible. The materials Katherine uses are varied, including silver and titanium, acrylic, plexiglass and plastic. Gemstones are a new addition to her repertoire. In terms of found objects, she has made jewellery utilising x-rays, vintage serving platters, plastic tubing, tea infusers, venetian blinds, and perfume sample bottles amongst other materials.

Materials: Hot blown glass with canes, sterling silver clad pin, 2019

Dimensions: Approx 28 mm x 22 mm

Meet the Maker: Jenni Kemarre Martiniello in an Award winning visual artist, poet, writer, and photographer of Arrernte, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. She is a highly respected Arrernte glass artist from Central Australia who combines the traditional Aboriginal practice of weaving with the European practice of glass making. 

Jenni’s glass works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra Glassworks and Sabbia Gallery in Sydney.

Photos: Craft + Design Canberra

Materials: Glass rods and silver caps

Dimensions: Length from top of hook, 55mm; glass rod is 30mm long

About the Maker: Tracy Hopkirk has worked as a jeweller for 30 years. She majored in Jewellery and silversmithing at The Sydney College of the Arts. She finds herself drawn to the intimate nature of jewellery and its relationship to the body.

The scope of her work has grown and changed over time, working not just within jewellery but also on larger scale sculptural pieces. Through her work she aims to push the wearer's expectation of what jewellery can be.

Materials: Hollow, pale blue titanium

Dimensions: 32mm

Meet the Maker: Sarah Murphy maintains her practice in Canberra at M16 Artspace where she creates her work to exhibit nationally.

She says of her work ‘Rhythm, repetition and movement are the fundamentals which are often the driving forces behind my work. I use repetition as a rhythm and a play between worlds of colour, movement and shape. In life we experience repetition every day. The simple act of walking, breathing or the sound of our own heartbeat. The gesture or movement of the human body, creating its own random yet syncopated pattern. The use of repetition in my work creates structure.  The presence of structure in our lives gives us the sense that we are somehow in control of our own existence. I enjoy creating jewellery with these characteristics and exploring how this might affect the relationship between the wearer the viewer and the piece itself.’

Materials: 999 silver, 925 silver

Dimensions: Size O 1/2

Meet the Maker: Danielle Lo is an emerging contemporary jeweller who has a deep fascination with her presence and sense of place amongst nature. Her works are gentle reflections of the organic environments around us, demonstrated through botanical forms, floral motifs and other imagery borrowed from nature. From her Sydney studio, she crafts intimate pieces that explore the physical world around her.

Lo has a meditative practice which draws ideas from the Buddhist theories of Zen. Reflective of this, her works search for strength and inner peace. This is reflected through their delicate designs and the intricate details that are a product meditative handcrafting.

Lo predominately works in gold, silver and enamel using lost wax casting and traditional silversmithing techniques. Each line, shape or form that Lo makes is a physical testament to the conceptual ideas that she invests herself in. Wearers of her jewellery are to feel the peace that Lo has found through the healing process of making.

Materials: 999 silver, 925 silver

Dimensions: Size N1/2

Meet the Maker: Danielle Lo is an emerging contemporary jeweller who has a deep fascination with her presence and sense of place amongst nature. Her works are gentle reflections of the organic environments around us, demonstrated through botanical forms, floral motifs and other imagery borrowed from nature. From her Sydney studio, she crafts intimate pieces that explore the physical world around her.

Lo has a meditative practice which draws ideas from the Buddhist theories of Zen. Reflective of this, her works search for strength and inner peace. This is reflected through their delicate designs and the intricate details that are a product meditative handcrafting.

Lo predominately works in gold, silver and enamel using lost wax casting and traditional silversmithing techniques. Each line, shape or form that Lo makes is a physical testament to the conceptual ideas that she invests herself in. Wearers of her jewellery are to feel the peace that Lo has found through the healing process of making.

Materials: 999 silver, 925 silver

Dimensions: L 24 cm 

Meet the Maker: Danielle Lo is an emerging contemporary jeweller who has a deep fascination with her presence and sense of place amongst nature. Her works are gentle reflections of the organic environments around us, demonstrated through botanical forms, floral motifs and other imagery borrowed from nature. From her Sydney studio, she crafts intimate pieces that explore the physical world around her.

Lo has a meditative practice which draws ideas from the Buddhist theories of Zen. Reflective of this, her works search for strength and inner peace. This is reflected through their delicate designs and the intricate details that are a product meditative handcrafting.

Lo predominately works in gold, silver and enamel using lost wax casting and traditional silversmithing techniques. Each line, shape or form that Lo makes is a physical testament to the conceptual ideas that she invests herself in. Wearers of her jewellery are to feel the peace that Lo has found through the healing process of making.

Materials: 999 silver, 925 silver

Dimensions: L 40 mm x W 35 mm 

Meet the Maker: Danielle Lo is an emerging contemporary jeweller who has a deep fascination with her presence and sense of place amongst nature. Her works are gentle reflections of the organic environments around us, demonstrated through botanical forms, floral motifs and other imagery borrowed from nature. From her Sydney studio, she crafts intimate pieces that explore the physical world around her.

Lo has a meditative practice which draws ideas from the Buddhist theories of Zen. Reflective of this, her works search for strength and inner peace. This is reflected through their delicate designs and the intricate details that are a product meditative handcrafting.

Lo predominately works in gold, silver and enamel using lost wax casting and traditional silversmithing techniques. Each line, shape or form that Lo makes is a physical testament to the conceptual ideas that she invests herself in. Wearers of her jewellery are to feel the peace that Lo has found through the healing process of making

Materials: Glass

About the Maker: Kirstie Rea. Having established her studio in 1987, following her graduation from the Glass program at the Canberra School of Art, Kirstie has over the past 29 years continued to develop her practice to become internationally recognised and respected for her works in glass.  

Material: Cotton 

Dimensions: W 35 cm | L 69 cm (the scarf is a loop)

About the Maker: Alice Sutton is a designer maker, and owner of the sustainable fashion label Edition. She works from her studio in Canberra creating beautiful, sustainable, wearable items.  

Each EDITION collection explores sustainable design and zero waste pattern making. My zero waste pattern making called 'Selvedge to Selvedge'  has informed the design aesthetic of EDITION. A key aspect of the design process is uncertainty as the final garments silhouettes are determined in the process not through drawings.

Through each collection the EDITION label evolves and the unique, multi functional garments create a new language for sustainable design. All EDITION garments are Australian made.

Image credits: Craft + Design Canberra

Unframed Photography Print by Sarah Annand, OAT Studio.

Materials: Photographs are printed in Canberra with archival inks on Artist quality Cotton Rag Paper.

Dimensions: A4

Meet the Maker: Sarah Annand is the artist behind the unique Canberran designs by OAT Studio.

‘My aesthetic is influenced by architecture, which has been a love of mine for as long as I can remember. This passion for our built environment runs throughout my creative journey; with my early photography studies around 15 years ago focusing on architecture of New Zealand; dissecting the shapes of building facades and creating new architectural compositions with the fractured images. When I relocated to Canberra 5 years ago, it was hard not to be inspired by the incredible brutalist and modernist structures we are so fortunate to be surrounded by.' Sarah, OAT Studio.

Unframed Photography Print by Sarah Annand, OAT Studio.

Materials: Photographs are printed in Canberra with archival inks on Artist quality Cotton Rag Paper.

Dimensions: A4

Meet the Maker: Sarah Annand is the artist behind the unique Canberran designs by OAT Studio.

‘My aesthetic is influenced by architecture, which has been a love of mine for as long as I can remember. This passion for our built environment runs throughout my creative journey; with my early photography studies around 15 years ago focusing on architecture of New Zealand; dissecting the shapes of building facades and creating new architectural compositions with the fractured images. When I relocated to Canberra 5 years ago, it was hard not to be inspired by the incredible brutalist and modernist structures we are so fortunate to be surrounded by.' Sarah, OAT Studio.

 Unframed Photography Print by Sarah Annand, OAT Studio.

Materials: Photographs are printed in Canberra with archival inks on Artist quality Cotton Rag Paper.

Dimensions: A4

Meet the Maker: Sarah Annand is the artist behind the unique Canberran designs by OAT Studio.

‘My aesthetic is influenced by architecture, which has been a love of mine for as long as I can remember. This passion for our built environment runs throughout my creative journey; with my early photography studies around 15 years ago focusing on architecture of New Zealand; dissecting the shapes of building facades and creating new architectural compositions with the fractured images. When I relocated to Canberra 5 years ago, it was hard not to be inspired by the incredible brutalist and modernist structures we are so fortunate to be surrounded by.' Sarah, OAT Studio.

A4 Unframed Photography Print by Sarah Annand, OAT Studio.

Materials: Photographs are printed in Canberra with archival inks on Artist quality Cotton Rag Paper.

Dimensions: A4

Meet the Maker: Sarah Annand is the artist behind the unique Canberran designs by OAT Studio.

‘My aesthetic is influenced by architecture, which has been a love of mine for as long as I can remember. This passion for our built environment runs throughout my creative journey; with my early photography studies around 15 years ago focusing on architecture of New Zealand; dissecting the shapes of building facades and creating new architectural compositions with the fractured images. When I relocated to Canberra 5 years ago, it was hard not to be inspired by the incredible brutalist and modernist structures we are so fortunate to be surrounded by.' Sarah, OAT Studio.

Kirstie Rea is an internationally celebrated Canberra-based glass maker.

Her signature glass blankets symbolise care, but also fragility.

Material: Kiln formed glass

Dimensions: 100 mm x 105 mm

About the Maker: Kirstie Rea. Having established her studio in 1987, following her graduation from the Glass program at the Canberra School of Art, Kirstie has over the past 29 years continued to develop her practice to become internationally recognised and respected for her works in glass.  

Artist statement: My work examines the loss of habitat and our concept of identity. Replacement by the generic that diminishes who we are.  I produce fragments of Australiana as a demonstration of how easily we lose the detail and cultural stamp of our personal landscape.

I am researching the ceramics of Wembley Ware that produces uniquely Australian images and prosaic generic images.

Works are lush to highlight how easily we are seduced by pretty things. This Wembley Ware series is identified by the use of white earthen ware, use of lustres and potent Australian images.

I use lots of generic items to highlight how readily we accept the generic. This acceptance erodes national identity and leads to the devaluation of all things native to Australia.  The devaluation of the personal process is aided and abetted by globalisation.

I am a classically trained artist from the National Art School East Sydney.   I have a long history of teaching in the secondary and tertiary contexts.  I am now concentrating on my personal practice.

Materials: Recycled Plates with gold over glaze detail.

Dimensions: Approx diameter 17cm

Meet the Maker: Sophi Suttor's work examines the loss of habitat and its replacement by the generic she is looking at specimens through the filter of the work of Rohan Ellis. Producing fragments of the generic as a demonstration of how easily we lose the detail and cultural stamp of our personal landscape

Works are childlike and toy like to highlight how easily we are seduced by pretty things. Using lots of generic flowers and toy like items to highlight how readily we accept the generic. This acceptance erodes national identity and leads to devaluation of all things native to Australia this process is aided and abetted by globalisation.

Materials: Screen printed panel on marine ply with powder coated steel edge and handles.

Dimensions: L 63 cm x W 24 cm 

About the Maker: Estelle Briedis is an emerging Canberra based surface designer and screen printer who specialises in creating original pattern designs, exploring ideas of architectural geometry, the mathematical process of tessellation and the aesthetics of symmetry. Estelle graduated from the Australian National University School of Art and Design in 2015, with First Class Honours in Bachelor of Design Arts, exhibits her works nationally and is stocked in several stores Australia wide.

Photos: Anisa Sabet

YOLO Man Limited Edition Jewellery by Pamela Irving

YOLO is a social media term meaning You Only Live Once.                     

Irving developed her YOLO Man character while constructing huge mosaic figures for Melbourne’s Luna Park. YOLO Man is a happy character embracing life. YOLO Man is essentially a head with legs and sometimes an arm or two.

He now appears as a range of limited edition, acrylic jewellery -  as necklaces, earrings and brooches. In this range of 5 designs, and a range of colours, he wears a homburg hat as a nod to famous Australian poet ‘Banjo’ Paterson and Pamela’s recent series “YOLO Man Waltzes Matilda”. One Figure has one bare leg and one wearing pants, a reference to Banjo Paterson, who always had one foot in the city and one in the outback. These pieces are quirky and collectable and a part of Pamela’s search for Australian Identity.

Materials: The earrings have sterling silver fixings.

Dimensions: Necklace length 35 cm | YOLO man is 6.5 cm x 6 cm 

Meet the Maker: Pamela Irving originally trained in ceramics and sculpture. She has been the recipient of several Arts Victoria and Australia Council Grants and Winner of the Shepparton Australia Day Award for Ceramics in 1994. Pamela works across media and her pieces adorn many public spaces in Melbourne and afar. They include the mosaic façade of the Luna Palace Building, Luna Park Melbourne and Larry La Trobe, the bronze dog standing in front of Melbourne’s Town Hall, large scale ceramic mural at the Shanghai American School, Shanghai and many other sculptures and murals around Melbourne. Pamela is based in Bentleigh, Melbourne where she has a large studio and gallery space. Pamela’s works are quirky and irreverent and she has created a niche market for her works both in the public and private domains.

Tide is a series of handmade tableware with imagery that portrays the essence of the beach.  Each wheel thrown porcelain form is inlayed with unique painterly monoprints and shell imprints, creating individual usable objects that imbue impressions of the layers, lines and threads left by the ebb and flow of the tide.

Materials: Wheel thrown porcelain, monoprint, carving, slips & shiny white glaze

Dimensions: 14 x 7cm 

Meet the Maker: Sue Hewat is a Canberra based ceramic artist. Conceptually, the transient nature of the ebb and flow of the tide guides her work. Sue has begun exploring visual links to other parts of the environment, examining parallels of pattern in both the land and the sea. She is drawn to the layers, lines and threads that define the essence of place.

Tide is a series of handmade tableware with imagery that portrays the essence of the beach.  Each wheel thrown porcelain form is inlayed with unique painterly monoprints and shell imprints, creating individual usable objects that imbue impressions of the layers, lines and threads left by the ebb and flow of the tide.

Materials: Wheel thrown porcelain, monoprint, carving, slips & shiny white glaze

Dimensions: 16 x 7.5cm 

Meet the Maker: Sue Hewat is a Canberra based ceramic artist. Conceptually, the transient nature of the ebb and flow of the tide guides her work. Sue has begun exploring visual links to other parts of the environment, examining parallels of pattern in both the land and the sea. She is drawn to the layers, lines and threads that define the essence of place.

Tide is a series of handmade tableware with imagery that portrays the essence of the beach.  Each wheel thrown porcelain form is inlayed with unique painterly monoprints and shell imprints, creating individual usable objects that imbue impressions of the layers, lines and threads left by the ebb and flow of the tide.

Materials: Wheel thrown porcelain, monoprint, carving, slips & shiny sand glaze

Dimensions: 14 x 7cm

Meet the Maker: Sue Hewat is a Canberra based ceramic artist. Conceptually, the transient nature of the ebb and flow of the tide guides her work. Sue has begun exploring visual links to other parts of the environment, examining parallels of pattern in both the land and the sea. She is drawn to the layers, lines and threads that define the essence of place.

Material: tiny porcelain white plate. 

Diameter: 110 mm x 20 mm deep

Meet the Maker: Jo Victoria is a Canberra based ceramic artist with a love of the ocean. Her works are inspired by cultural and natural landscapes and ocean shores. She mixes organic materials with porcelain slips to create delicate, translucent, often haunting works that speak of deep time and the precariousness of life on earth.

Jo completed her Master of Visual Arts degree at the ANU School of Art in 2016 and has exhibited in group and solo shows in the ACT and region, the South Coast and in Denmark.

Materials: Sterling silver

Dimensions: 18.5mm (Q)

About the Maker: Tracy Hopkirk has worked as a jeweller for 30 years. She majored in Jewellery and silversmithing at The Sydney College of the Arts. She finds herself drawn to the intimate nature of jewellery and its relationship to the body.

The scope of her work has grown and changed over time, working not just within jewellery but also on larger scale sculptural pieces. Through her work she aims to push the wearer's expectation of what jewellery can be.

Photo: Lean Timms

Materials: Kiln formed glass

Dimensions: Diameter 19 mm

About the Maker: Lisa Cahill's glass installations create a discourse about the Australian landscape and her affinity with it, often entwined with her Danish heritage. Inspired by both the natural world and the transitory nature of the urban experience, Cahill’s dreamlike images invite viewers to draw associations with their own remembered landscapes, resulting in a meditative and emotional response. Rather than a direct reproduction they are more her own interpretation of light and landscape and become a place for quiet contemplation