The Remake Challenge

 Kin has some brilliant ideas, and their latest one

 gave me the pleasure of taking part in the Remake Challenge.

They teamed 5 of their jewellery designers up with one of the fashion finalists.

I was partnered with Kelly Ricardo a edgy wild child and I loved her energy and ideas.

To pair with her collection I came up with these babies:

 

 

 Yes, they are all made out of pencils.

The irony being that I recycled into my designs just as Remake includes that in their brief.

Really loved this project and can't wait to take these designs further.

But best of all, love seeing the talent from the competition.

The goodluck album is in stores.

I walked into Musica today and there was the Goodluck Album!

For those who missed it.
Under a collaborative by
Wes Langeridge, Moe Kekana and Robin Evans and myself
called Tenth Hour,
I made and designed the jewellery that goes on top of the Cat
Lots of rocky roads, hard work and tears, but it looks stunning.

Jules and Ben (from Goodluck) can be proud the sound is amazing, Hop on Hop off is by far my favourite, but Durty Boys sounds like it was written about me!

Aftermath of the heart expo...

Thursday (14th Oct) was the I [heart] Hearts Exhibition at The Fringe Arts (at the V&A Waterfront). 20 Hearts were unveiled, each individually designed and artified by a designer that stocks the shop. The proceeds are being split between the artist (or Heartist as we are being called) and the Association for Visual Arts’ (AVA...) Artreach fund in partnership with Spier.

I love the hearts done by Inkheart, one by Nina and one by Kevin, as well as the hearts by Metaxia and Lauren Fowler.

Above is my heart, was gone before I could snap a pic of it with the others. It's awesome to be part of this project. I now have a love for gold leaf and have a hankering to make new stock for the shop. So much to do....

goodluck to it all

So it's been a while... Miss me?

Things have been crazily busy on this side.

Here's a little update about what's been happening since our last little tryst.

I've been teaching (alot), besides teaching 2nd year technique at the university, I've been offering drawing (3d modeling, Rhino) because 1 of our lecturers resigned and did a 3 week introduction to jewellery course for the foundation course. Been working on my body of work for Btech, sadly only 6 pieces done out of a minimum of 20, I want 30 to 40... Eish...

And last but not least also one of the coolest:

I have been collaborating with friends of mine who study at Red and Yellow.

They were approached by a band (Goodluck) to do the art direction and design of their branding and album art. So we've collaborated and I've made the patterned jewels that go on top of a statue for the album.

The band is amazing, I had the fortune of hearing their new material in studio when we went to have a meeting the other day. Seriously check them out. So excited to see the album done and to see them perform live as the opening act for Basement Jaxx on 3/4 September. Very very awesome!