Now that the final mad weeks of NZIFF, Tipua Exhibition prep and moving out of NZ are done, time to start posting the massive backlog of photos of jewellery I’ve made over the past month or two! I was posting this cast vertebrae bar necklace all over my story when I was making it as I was determined to fit this amethyst into those bone ridges - took three redesigns of the bezel but we got there! Photos aren’t the best but this is in the Tipua display cabinet at @workspacestudios for another two weekends if you’d like to have a look at it in person among many other things I’ve recently made 💜 Amethyst, sterling silver castings from a rat and an anonymous small mammal, on a sterling chain that runs through the spinal cord space.

Next Friday 🔥 Come visit me before I disappear for a while, and all of my (very) new jewellery from my residency period at @workspacestudios learning new ways of making/casting in silver and bronze 🖤 This has been an amazing opportunity to learn and expand my creative repertoire, and be awed by all the amazing ways people have developed to work with metal throughout history, and has given me so much curiosity and enthusiasm to keep working and learning new things. I’m very behind on photographing/instagramming things but looking forward to sharing my work with everyone in person :) Hope to see you there! (Thanks @heavymetalsjewellery for the poster 🖤)

About a month ago I tried cuttlefish casting for the first time and became obsessed with it, which is unfortunate as it’s an extremely dusty and stinky process I haven’t had the time/opportunity to go back to it since 😂 This was also my first time using an oxygen torch and I botched the first pour, so I’m making a prosthetic for my first casting out of wax to finish it. I kind of speed-carved this next attempt as I didn’t expect it to work but I actually love how kind of decomposed-looking and textured it is. First side was carved into, second side is the natural cuttlefish bone texture from where the two halves of the bone are taped together. I’m so keen to keep exploring cuttlefish casting textures, big cursed sunken city vibes. Poured recycled sterling silver 🖤

Blackberry twigs cut from a dormant bramble in midwinter, cast in sterling silver. Winter decay gives them a distinct withered texture as these brambles wait for warmer weather to resume growth. Blackberry bushes are interesting for the enormous and varied symbolism attached to them throughout different cultures. Love to death, healing to pain, Christ’s crown of thorns to Lucifer’s landing on earth. What myth or symbolism first springs to mind when you think of them? —- Immortalised winter twigs on sterling sleeper hoops. Oxidised with sulphur to bring out the natural texture.

I’ve been kind of planning a (temporary) move to the UK for over a year now. The dates kept shifting as things have been WILD this year in particular, but it’s now officially happening in early September and it’s creeping up fast! This year has been amazing on the jewellery front, I’ve had such a great time at Workspace and learned lots of new things, done some cool markets and met lots of cool people, and have felt so honoured to have repeat customers and everyones kindness and support for my work 💜 I’m keeping my webstore open for two more weeks for limited orders of my small-batch designs, then will be closing the store until I’m set up to start making again wherever I land in England. Last chance to get local shipping for an indefinite while (maybe a year or two, who knows). I’m closing commissions as of now, commissions already ordered will be finished in the next couple of weeks ☺️ thanks again for your orders! I’ll be having an exhibition at Mason and Collins gallery at the end of August (dates tbc) with lots of one of a kind pieces. Would be lovely to see you all there, I will not have time to organise a leaving party so please come see me and my jewellery before I go! 😂 Once the exhibition ends, my work will be available at @masonandcollins and @covenant_nz, as well as at @ninjaflowerwellington Thanks for reading and for supporting my work this year, it truly means so much to me 🖤 If you’d like to grab something from the site before it closes (proceeds towards the ‘about to be unemployed in a foreign country’ fund), please use the code MOVINGSALE for 10% off until midnight August 20th!

$5 raffle for Orange Sky 🧡 Orange Sky provides laundry services and hot showers for people without access through housing. Prize will be your choice of either a pair of sparrow hoops or a forest pentagram pendant, in sterling silver, in the finish of your choice (bright or oxidised). Raffle will be drawn next friday on the 1st of August on Instagram, winner also notified by email. Tickets are $5 each, and if you’ve bought at least one ticket you can also share this to your story (with the text to show the post title) for an additional entry. Tickets available through my story highlight (titled ‘raffle tickets’), link also includes further information about Orange Sky as a charity. Good luck! Curious to hear in the comments which piece you would choose ☺️

More melted wax adventures, involving wax injections from my bone moulds. So many possibilities combining wax with moulded shapes. The things I’ve worked on since making this have gotten a LOT weirder. Particularly happy with the texture on this one and how the sulphur brings it out. The melted look isn’t hugely my style but I feel like it works with the emerging skeleton hand somehow? Oxidised sterling silver 🔥

Fun with reticulated silver scrap. Determined to make the 90s ribbon necklace a thing again. Or maybe I’ll melt it down to make way for the huge wax and bone pieces incoming 🔥 Lots of new work on the way, a mixture of new and familiar projects for me. Learning lots and getting excited about some long-term visions finally coming to life.