Hannah Davies
Jewellery & Metal MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2022
Specialisms: Jewelry / Contemporary Craft / Digital Arts
My location: Chester, United Kingdom
Hannah Davies
First Name: Hannah
Last Name: Davies
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Jewellery & Metal MA
Graduates: 2022
Specialisms: Jewelry / Contemporary Craft / Digital Arts
My Location: Chester, United Kingdom
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About
“Along with a shift in consciousness, there is a need for a change in perspective. (Written in response to sustainability.”Wangari Maathai founder of the Green Belt movement from the book The world we once lived in
I explore the symbiosis of modern technology, and the traditional to weave together a world ungraspable physically. My perception towards materiality shifted as a jeweller when exploring material traces of the Topaphilic Anthropocene in the landscape I grew up in Wales. I explore the intertwining meshwork of materiality, I highlight this through growing mycelium in the materials that surrounded my identity. Creating installations surrounding the collections I make.
By spinning wool from my sheep into welsh gold on a spinning wheel. As a jeweller I aim to shift perspective surrounding materials. As a result making jewellery which is ecologically helpful.
This collection highlights the miraculous lacery of interconnectedness shown in materiality, highlighting how materiality is entangled in an identity of the landscape, as it weaves a dialogue between the underworld and the terrestrial. I recalled the materials which thread through my own identity. I found as well as recycled gold from the Welsh hills, wool from my small flock of sheep to be an integral part of my identity, heritage and culture. I developed a technique to encapsulate this heritage, by spinning together Welsh Gold ribbon, with finely spun wool from my pet sheep by hand on an antique Welsh spinning wheel. Using lanolin from the wool to polish the gold which was previously used to polish medival suits of armour. By using ancient hand powered craft techniques, and hyper local materials the jewellery is ecologically helpful and unique. By the symbiosis of modern technology, with the traditional the jewellery weaves the wearer together with the heritage held in these materials.
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