Resourceful Jewellery Workshop

Throughout my creative career I have taken my work into community education. As a student at Art School, I worked with what is now known as Open Studios who welcome both adults and children to try out different courses across the school.

This was a fantastic week long course for children that I created that used everyday materials to create jewellery. We worked with old magazines, fabric offcuts, old broken jewellery and even rubber tubes from bicycle tyres. The children were so receptive and were able to create treasures out of otherwise waste material.

The course really questioned the idea of material value in relation to jewellery, a subject that has always fascinated me. Is jewellery valuable because it is made out of precious material? Can it be valuable to you in other ways such as the sentiment that it holds, it’s history or the time that has been put into making it?