MAKE JEWELLERY NOT WAR

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Taking something with negative connotations, but making sure that the positive undertones are the main focus. Read more below.

Featured on Klimt02 as a part of the virtual exhibition. Featured in Aballone Magazine and Eko Magazine.

Previously exhibited at Pyramid Gallery, Creates Gallery, Cluster Craft, London Craft Week, Chalk’s Gallery, Munich Jewellery Week, Handmade Oxford at Waterperry Gardens, SDC’s ‘Wonder’ Exhibition, Making Matters and 6Artist Collective.

To see the storyboards that accompany this project, click here. To see the videos that accompany this exhibition, click here.

‘Make Jewellery Not War’ is a collection of brass, sterling silver and ebony pieces. It consists of a series of little wearable sculptures that serve as a reminder to not only see the good in as much as possible, but also to be it. All pieces have their own themes but each one intends to encapsulate just a small fraction of the phenomenal capacity for hope that a human has.

Each piece has its own little themes and inspirations; whether it be a celebration of people power, possibility, or a kind gesture shared. All pieces intend to encapsulate just a small fraction of the phenomenal capacity for hope that a human has. Whether that be for something small in an individual life, societal change, or for a better life after unimaginable dangers. The use of such a warm coloured, shiny metal aims to give them an appearance of a little beacon of light.

A multitude of sources have continued to fuel these ideas: from the activities of the MSF themselves to individual actions, from conceptual ideas to the 'Asylum Speakers’ Podcast created by The Worldwide Tribe.

Each display prop that these pieces stand upon take their shape from a selection of the 70 countries and territories that the MSF supports across the world. They are an incredible charity of fearless and determined volunteers who will put themselves in all kinds of situations if it means that they can look after others.