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Sean Booth

Sean Booth's practice consists of many diverse veins of investigation, and it is this diversity that excites him and allows his skills to be shaped and utilised. The scope and depth of his practice ranges from commissioned work, contemporary one-off explorations in silver, object construction; utilising industrial materials and techniques, and the challen...

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Robert Foster

The strong driving force behind my creative practice is to explore and invent. I transcribe over this fascination with visual language and the understanding of material and process. The results of my investigation are both diverse in form and function as well as appearance. In spite of this multiplicity people say that there is a commonality in my work, p...

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Alison Jackson

Alison Jackson's practice incorporates two focus areas, jewellery and hollowware. Jackson's hollowware explores concepts surrounding the use of silver in the everyday. With functionality as a central theme, she explores the integration of contemporary silver tableware pieces within the contemporary everyday tableware context. Her current work is focuse...

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Phoebe Porter

Phoebe Porter is a Melbourne based contemporary jeweller whose work explores industrial processes and mechanical parts. Each of her designs is refined to its necessary elements, often using the fastening mechanism as a starting point which then becomes integral to the design. Porter uses industrial materials and processes in combination with traditiona...

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Gilbert Riedelbauch

As much as the mind links an idea with a design solution, the hand connects design to the making process. Making becomes the extension of design and forms the essence of craft. 

New technologies play an ever increasing part in my working practice. The skillful manipulation of tools and process - the basis of making - is equally important for ...

Oliver Smith

As a silversmith and designer, Oliver Smith's passion is to create beautiful functional objects that enrich people's lives. He expresses this through the language of hammer forming, whilst aspiring to be a leading practitioner in the craft and design industry. Smith feels that the broad spectrum of projects he has undertaken is a strength which has evo...

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Blanche Tilden

Tilden has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990. A unique approach to materials, along with a focus on repetition has developed over this time. A fascination with mechanical devices, fuelled by a desire to understand how things work continually inspires Tilden's jewellery. This understanding enables her to explore glass both as a mate...