Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions

. Manchester School of Art Degree Show: 18th-23rd June 2010, Manchester School of Art.

Award Won: 'Wentworth's Graduate Award'. This award means that one of my designs will be put in to mass production by Wentworth Pewter Factory. I am currently working on a design that will be produced and on sale by Christmas.

. New Designers: Craft 1st-4th July 2010. Business Centre, Islington, London

www.newdesigners.com/page.cfm/link=39

. Crossings Student Exhibition- 19th-21st July 2010, West Dean College, Chichester. ACJ Event

The Association for Contemporary Jewellery's 2010 conference, curated by Kathie Murphy.

Guest Speakers: Wendy Ramshaw, David Watlinks, Robert Endorf, Cynthia Eid

www.klimt02.net/showcase/index.php?item_id=18195

. LACi Touring Show:

Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 2nd October-13th November 2010

http://www.grundyartgallery.com

Rossendale Museum, Lancashire, 15th January, 21st Febuary 2010

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/acs/sites/museums

Chapel Gallery, Omskirk, Lancashire, 5th March, 23rd April, 2010

http://www.chapelgallery.org.uk

. Diana Porter's Christmas Exhibition, Diana Porter Gallery, Bristol, November-January 2010

www.dianaporter.co.uk

"Peep At Me" Vintage Erotica Keyhole Brooch

Vintage Erotica Keyhole Necklaces

Photo-Etched Silver Ring

Eadweard Muybridge's 19th Century photography studies of the 'Body in Motion' inspired this ring. It is made from oxidised sterling silver and has been photo-etched. The photographs are from my own photography studies where I have replicated Muybridge's sequences.

Silver Leg Ring -Hand Cut

Embroidery Hoops

In the ‘Three Essays on Sexuality’, Freud outlines an ‘object of desire’; where a sexual attribute is assigned to a particular object (such as the shoe or an undergarment) or a body part (such as the foot or leg) in order to fulfill a subconscious desire.

By using lace alongside the voyeuristic image of the leg I aim to draw upon connotations of underwear. The embroidery hoop is intended to be an ironic juxtaposition of imagery. In its conventional context, an embroidery hoop is seen as a traditional and innocent object where as now it has become an object of desire. 

Leg Brooch-Pins

Water-jet cut brass and stainless steel brooch-pins. Each leg has been riveted together and can be repositioned by the wearer