CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY

Gillian Deery

Gillian Deery's making practice has a current focus of exploring fabrication techniques of thin sterling silver sheet. The thin material is chosen as it allows for fast working methods and is an ideal medium to capture and archive the action of the making process. It can be cut with scissors, bent, hammered, pressed, scratched, melted and transformed from a flat surface to a three dimensional form with relative ease and all marks of making are embedded in the surface. Choosing not to use solder, Gillian seeks alternative methods to join components together. These practical solutions include folding, crimping, threading, fusing and granulation, which lend a decorative as well as practical aspect to the finished object.

From 2010

Granulated silver brooch $600

Granulated silver brooch $400

'Melted Beads' brooch $510
Sterling silver

From 2009

1. Flute Brooch. Oxidised sterling silver, sterling silver pin. $310
2. Flute Brooch. Oxidised sterling silver, sterling silver pin. $190
3. Flute Brooch. Sterling silver, sterling silver pin. $175
4. Flute Brooch. Sterling silver, sterling silver pin. $175