Place Based Jewellery Making

This forum investigates how the processes involved in producing contemporary jewellery can both activate and communicate relationships with place and associated themes of identity, home and belonging in the context of living and working on unceded Aboriginal Country. Introducing three speakers of different cultural backgrounds – each employs jewellery to reveal the intricacies of developing relationships with place, embody personal histories, and reveal diasporic cultures to collectively explore multiple connections with place in Australia.

SPEAKERS

Chair: Dr Bic Tieu, Lecturer, UNSW School of Art & Design

Lucy Simpson, Artist / Designer / Maker

Marcia Swaby, Contemporary Jewellery and Object Maker

Melinda Young, Associate Lecturer, UNSW School of Art & Design

This forum will also be livestreamed: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/86287932560

Image credit: Bic Tieu, Camellia Sinensis (2023).