Sandy Wrightson - jeweller
Designing and making contemporary jewellery is a passsion Sandy discovered relatively recently. With limited formal training, she is largely self taught. Her inspiration comes mostly from nature; simple organic forms with fluid lines such as leaves and stems, seaweed and ocean life.
Her style shows influences of the flowing forms of the Art Nouveau period, the clean lines of Danish design and an appreciation of Japanese aesthetics.
She enjoys using a range of materials both industrial and traditional and exploring new materials as a part of her practice. Porcelain has been her most recent adventure. She takes pride in creating quality pieces which are wearable and unique.
Sandy's ‘Wired’ pieces are based on the repetition of a simple design element and strong visual contrast; industrial, matt black rubber and traditional, polished, precious metal.
Sandy responds to the strong lines and elegant curves of nature’s own geometry,and this is echoed in her work. While bushwalking recently on the North Coast she saw and admired the long, reed-like leaves of the Australian Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoea australis); their leaf blades extending first upward then arching gracefully over, suspended in space, occasionally crossing with the blades of another.
Sandy wanted to create a simple neckband which opened at the front and featured negative space, and which melds to the body. Spring steel provided the structure and mechanism for the single-wire neckband - the starting point for the ‘Wired’ pieces which followed. Its simple structure and design provided a rich basis for exploring multiplicity. Remaining true to clean simple lines, the range evolved.
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