STORY
Emily is a contemporary maker exploring shape and form through precious materials. Her jewellery has a strong graphic aesthetic, combining minimal, empty space with areas of intricate detail. Inspiration comes from observing her environment; from industrial buildings through to fields and cliff tops. Pared back line, texture, pattern and colour are central to her practice, and through making she strives to create and share work that resonates.
Emily has a degree in Three Dimensional Crafts (wood, metal, ceramics and plastics) from the University of Brighton. This was followed by a postgraduate course at the prestigious Bishopsland Educational Trust. She has completed a number of master classes since to hone and expanded her skills. Emily has exhibited widely, from Goldsmiths’ Fair to MAD About Jewelry in New York. Her jewellery has been stocked by TOAST, San Francisco MOMA, Contemporary Applied Arts and the Scottish Gallery.
MATERIALS
Working with 100% recycled silver and gold, Emily is known for combining these with colourful laminate. She also uses wood, paint, resin, precious stones and Keum Boo to add extra details. Laminate is paper and resin formed under extremely high pressure. Emily uses the brand Formica which you may be used to seeing on table tops and kitchens. It can have quite a mid-century modern feel, has a wonderful matt finish and the colour doesn’t fade. Her use of laminate started when she discovered samples of it in the Materials Collection at Central Saint Martins library in 2013.
PROCESS
Emily uses traditional jewellery and silversmithing techniques when working with precious metals. It starts as sheet or wire and is rolled, pierced, textured, pressed and polished. Emily cuts the wood and laminate to manageable sizes, glues them together with an epoxy glue, leaves them to dry overnight and then hand cuts it into her signature shapes with a jewellers piercing saw. Every piece is made and finished by hand.
Exhibitions and Stockists
STORY
Emily is a contemporary maker exploring shape and form through precious materials. Her jewellery has a strong graphic aesthetic, combining minimal, empty space with areas of intricate detail. Inspiration comes from observing her environment; from industrial buildings through to fields and cliff tops. Pared back line, texture, pattern and colour are central to her practice, and through making she strives to create and share work that resonates.
Emily has a degree in Three Dimensional Crafts (wood, metal, ceramics and plastics) from the University of Brighton. This was followed by a postgraduate course at the prestigious Bishopsland Educational Trust. She has completed a number of master classes since to hone and expanded her skills. Emily has exhibited widely, from Goldsmiths’ Fair to MAD About Jewelry in New York. Her jewellery has been stocked by TOAST, San Francisco MOMA, Contemporary Applied Arts and the Scottish Gallery.
MATERIALS
Working with 100% recycled silver and gold, Emily is known for combining these with colourful laminate. She also uses wood, paint, resin, precious stones and Keum Boo to add extra details. Laminate is paper and resin formed under extremely high pressure. Emily uses the brand Formica which you may be used to seeing on table tops and kitchens. It can have quite a mid-century modern feel, has a wonderful matt finish and the colour doesn’t fade. Her use of laminate started when she discovered samples of it in the Materials Collection at Central Saint Martins library in 2013.
PROCESS
Emily uses traditional jewellery and silversmithing techniques when working with precious metals. It starts as sheet or wire and is rolled, pierced, textured, pressed and polished. Emily cuts the wood and laminate to manageable sizes, glues them together with an epoxy glue, leaves them to dry overnight and then hand cuts it into her signature shapes with a jewellers piercing saw. Every piece is made and finished by hand.
Exhibitions and Stockists
