Art jewellery + Exhibition pieces

 
 

Buttons

Masterworks Gallery, Auckland 2025 Button Exhibition

A handful of buttons made out of Coromandel Carnelian, Canterbury Agate, Pounamu (not in photo) Pakohe (Not in photo)

Ancestors on my shoulders

Finnish Forest Museum Lusto, Finland 2024

Koru8 Finnish contemporary jewellery triennial

These harakeke beads are the many ancestors we carry with us

Earrings - harakeke, Coromandel jasper, Pounamu/Nephrite jade, sterling silver, cotton

Paper Weight

Masterworks Gallery, Auckland 2025 - Matariki exhibition

Canterbury Agate, Muka, 18ct Gold

The price of whenua

Masterworks Gallery, Auckland NZ 2024 - Bead exhibition

My beads are based on the Palestinian Pound coinage from 1927-1944 in which some had a hole through the middle.

Materials - Canterbury Agate, Pounamu/Nephrite Jade, red acrylic

Eyes of Observation

Masterworks Gallery, Auckland 2025 - Matariki exhibition

Based on the eyes of a tiki taken into a new form. Looking at how we observe our world.

18ct gold, Canterbury Agate, Muka

Mata o te Marama

Nelson Provincial Museum, Nelson NZ 2024 - Te Tuhi O Te Whenua Pakohe Unearthed

The rings represent different Mata o te Marama/phases of the moon.

Materials - 22ct Gold, Sterling silver, Nelson Pakohe

Cigar Floats

Masterworks Gallery, Auckland NZ 2022

Based on the modern plastic fishing tool ‘cigar floats’ often found as rubbish washed up on our coasts.

Materials - Coromandel agatised wood, Pounamu/nephrite jade, Canterbury agate, Coromandel carnelian, sterling silver, 18ct gold, cotton cord