I love creating large, mixed media art jewellery necklaces! Incorporating found objects, broken jewellery, fabric, feathers, beads is incredibly exciting (yep, if you know my work you know I love this stuff). In 2021 the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery hosted the Midwest Art Prize. This is a pretty big deal for our area and often…
These little Christmas Wreaths are just the cutest and they were so easy to make. I love that I was able to use found objects which kept the cost to a minimum and made them original and unique. Even though some of the found objects really weren’t Christmassy, I think they have a bit of…
The selection process for the Griffith National Contemporary Art Jewellery Awards 2018 has just taken place and unfortunately my piece wasn’t selected. I can now share my entry with everyone. The National Contemporary Art Jewellery Awards are part of the Objects Art Forum being held in August this year. I’m heading over to Griffith to…
I’ve been crazily creating all sorts of totems and crab claw oddities over the last few months and thought I would share a few of them with you. I entered a piece into an art prize in Brisbane, Queensland recently and was lucky enough to have my piece chosen to be included in the exhibition…
Crab claws certainly send my heart racing. Check out some of the recent ones my eldest son brought home for me. Incorporating them into unique, art jewellery pieces is quite a passion of mine and I’ve got quite a collection of them now. These two pieces came about as part of an online art exhibition…
As a bit of a personal challenge this year, I decided to enter a few Art Prizes and of course, the IPCA Art Awards were high on my list. I had already been working with some beautiful crab claws my son had given me (and other oceany bits) so continued working in this theme and…
The highly anticipated Midwest Art Prize returns to the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery in June 2017. The prize is open to Western Australian artists and boasts more than $30000 in prize money. Entries closed to artists on 1 May and I decided to enter a piece this year. With over 200 entries, the selection…
It was a bloody brilliant day in the studio today – nice and cool (thank goodness) so perfect for getting lots of work done. I finally finished off a few necklaces that will be coming with me to Hawaii. I’ve been playing around with the placement of components for quite a while now and just…
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