ALIDA CAPPELLETTA

Alida Cappelletta graduated from Sydney College of the Arts majoring in Jewellery and Metal and also studied at RMIT in Gold and Silversmithing. She also has a painting background after completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Curtin University in Perth. Alida is currently a resident at Gaffa Gallery Studios in Sydney's Surry Hills.

Alida's work is primarily influenced by forms within her natural environment. Her personal collection of found objects bares natures hidden and effortless beauty. Botanical forms with rich surface texture and geometric patterns filter through her current body of work.

JYOTI PEART

Jyoti graduated with an Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design from Enmore Design Centre in 2006.

Since then, she has been actively working in the jewellery industry and exhibiting her work in various venues throughout Sydney. Her jewellery has a somewhat sweet–toothed playfulness to them; a cute and contemporary take on ancient jewellery-making techniques such as granulation and chain making. Working predominantly with silver, Jyoti often adds colourful elements of enamel or flocking to her pieces.

FRANCINE HAYWOOD

Born in France, Francine completed a BA in Chinese Art and Archaeology before leaving France to explore Asia. She lived in Hong-Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Kyoto and Kobe before moving to Australia in 1997. She then took an Advance Diploma in Object and Jewellery Design at Enmore TAFE.

After graduating in 2000, Francine participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has won the Object-Highly Commendable Award and the BHP Cannington Award. Her work has figured in Object Magazine, Lemel, Craft Art Magazine, Larks Books publications and she was commissioned to do several projects for the Art of Paper Jewelry book, published by Larks Books.

BRENDA FACTOR

Brenda Factor is a Sydney designer/maker and visual artist, with an enduring interest in colour and repetition.

The starting point for her current work is the notion of the 'copy'. She investigates ideas surrounding deconstruction and fragmentation, particularly in relation to the portrait and self.

www.brendafactordesign.com

SONYA SCOTT

Sonya Scott is a recent graduate from The Design Centre Enmore and recipient of their Jewellery and Object Design Award, which resulted in a stand out solo show at Metalab Gallery in Surry Hills in early 2009. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Arts Craft International, Jeweller Black and White Magazine and Wooden Toy Magazine. Her recent production and exhibition work is centered within her relationship with music and the notion of 'improvisation', that being the practice of reacting, of making and creating in the moment and in response to the stimulus of selected musical scores and tracks. She is fascinated with the notion of technical precision and her striving for it, jute string, rust, rivets and more conceptually, interpreting her personal actions and interactions to and with the world around her.

www.sonyascott.com

SHERIDAN KENNEDY

Sheridan has created collections for notable Sydney fashion designers such as Akira Isogawa and Michelle Jank, as well as participating in numerous exhibitions both locally and internationally. Most recently, in early 2009, Sheridan completed her PHD in the Object Art & Design faculty at Sydney College of the Arts.

Sheridan is fascinated by a wide variety of things: maps and exploratory journeys, exotic deep-sea creatures, curious insects, and other trips through the imagination, combined with more serious pursuits including archaeology, anthropology, animism and the evolution of consciousness. Pictured here is the 'Crustaceous Chain', or, 'Coralatuas Cauda' from the order of the Hydrophilidae.

www.sheridankennedy.com

SIAN EDWARDS

Sian completed her Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design at Enmore Tafe in 2005. She then moved to Melbourne to do a Bachelor of Fine Art at Monash University. Materials and processes are the driving force of Sian's practice and it is through these, in the act of making, amongst curiosity, experiment and play, that her work emerges. Sian has a keen interest in the sensual nature of materials, and the forms she produces require a tactile interaction to translate entirely. Her work has involved taking apart old Glomesh bags and re-constructing them into various types of Bird Feet. She use specimens from the museum as a point of anatomical reference for her work.

RITA CLINQUART

A graduate of Fashion Design the Rio de Janeiro born Brazilian Rita Clinquart started her journey in the world of Arts at an early age attending life drawing classes. Since this time she has not stopped. Her passion for art maturing and adopting different forms as a result of the possibilities to create using diverse materials. This journey has included painting, sculpting and textiles used in fashion. Finally she arrived at metals and jewellery, and found that this medium as a form of expression gives her the most pleasure and this is reflected in the final pieces.

The inspirations for her projects are diverse and include historical references, personal experiences and observations of daily life. Her creative process is flexible, a drawing can be the embryo of a new jewel, but creation directly on the metal also happens. Magical and surprising, her creations carry within their lines fine design and above all, beauty and originality.

CHRISTOPHER DITSAS

Having completed his Diploma in Jewellery and Object Design, Design Centre Enmore, TAFE NSW, Chris has found the ultimate expression of art through the body, by way of contemporary jewellery, and has gained the skills necessary to create designs so keenly fuelled by his love of illustration, and wearable pieces for the body. Having a professional background in costume design/production, in jewellery he has found a way to combine all the aspects he loves about art and to express it in ways of higher detail and closer attention than ever dreamed possible.

Chris approaches the making of bodily adornment as a special relationship, where jewellery/object can indeed exist without the wearer, but when brought together create an evocative magic in the combination of the two.

DORIS JURZAK

Currently studying Jewellery and Object Design at Design Centre Enmore, Doris finds interest in just about anything to do with the earth, its inhabitants and their diversity. This is reflected in her work which may be a re-interpretation of an existing form in nature or a three-dimensional representation of human behaviour, in which she finds endless, wry entertainment.

Her design process is uninhibited by conventional ideas of jewellery forms and wearability, resulting in pieces which tend to be form-driven. There is a very specific interface between the work and the part of the human form on which it is intended to be worn. Together with curved forms, line and repetition feature in her designs. Enjoying a minimum of fuss and a straightforward, honest approach in her day-to-day, her practice produces uncomplicated, organic forms.