Articles

Donald Friedlich, Aqua Series Brooch, 2013, glass, 22-karat gold, 18-karat gold, 14-karat gold, 57 x 60.3 x 9.5 mm, photo: Larry Sanders Missy Graff: Please tell me about your background. How did you become interested in making jewelry? Donald Friedlich: In my early 20s, I met a jeweler while ski bumming in Stowe, Vermont. Up

Laura Deakin, Our Planet on Tuesday the 14th August 2012, 2012, necklace, polyester resin, newspaper pigment, silver, 660 mm, photo: artist Missy Graff: Please tell me about your background. How did you become a jeweler?  Laura Deakin: My parents have always been a huge influence in my life. My dad is an illustrator and retired

Marie-Louise Kristensen portrait, photo: Jeanette Land Schou Susan Cummins: Please describe your project called BANGKO{K}LLECTION. Why did you choose Bangkok? Marie-Louise Kristensen: Well it’s more like Bangkok chose me. In 2011, a while after I finished working on CPH:DUCKS (a solo exhibition at Goldfingers in Copenhagen), I got in contact with Atty, the director of

Joyce Scott, photo: John Dean Susan Cummins: Joyce, when did you first know you were going to be an artist? Joyce Scott: In vitro. I was born with one of the best-decorated placenta. I know you have repeated the story of your mother and her influence on you many times, but would you mind repeating

Marian Hosking Susan Cummins: Please tell the story of when you knew you wanted to make jewelry. Marian Hosking: While at high school, I was interested in architecture, Le Corbusier and the Modern movement. I started an architecture degree at Melbourne University, only for a few weeks, in 1967. I believed I could be studying

Anne-Marie Rébillard, Series Trace, 2013, brooch, driftwood, plastic, epoxy, pigments, cotton, 70 x 70 x 30 mm, photo: Michel Gauvin Missy Graff: Please tell me about your background. How did you become interested in making jewelry?  Gabrielle Desmarais: When I first began college, I studied administration while making fashion jewelry for small shops in town.