Tracing time -- Tracing threads

Tracing time – Tracing threads is a collection of enamelled jewellery, comprised of three neckpieces and eight brooches. The output was inspired by Elizabethan blackwork, a 16th–17th century embroidery technique that used a black thread made from an iron-based dye. This work was produced for an exhibition, Heat Exchange II – Artists Exchanging Energy (September 2015 – July 2016) which toured four international venues in the UK and Germany. The output was subsequently exhibited at Schmuck –Munich Jewellery Week 2017, the annual International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades at the International Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany (8 – 14 March 2017). It was also exhibited in an internationally selected group exhibition, Nexus: Meetings at the Edge m(September – November 2018), which toured in Wales.