Art jewellery + Exhibition pieces

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

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

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

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