Footnotes, 2025

Footnotes, 2025

Working at the intersection of contemporary jewellery and site-responsive installation, Footnotes explores the tension between adornment and attunement—interventions that quietly disrupt and blur the boundaries between identity, grounded materiality, and objecthood. The encounter is intimate, disorienting, and attuned to the layered histories that linger in our collective memory. Traced through subtle placement and material sensitivity, viewers are invited to look closely and question what is seen, what is overlooked, and how we locate ourselves—particularly within everyday places shaped by the nuances of colonial legacy and ecological trace, where taken-for-granted perspectives often go unexamined.

Left to right:

Brooch. Kōwhai seeds, freshwater pearls, cotton thread, tacks, sole of the artist’s gum boot.

Brooch. Akeake seed pod, steel wire, safety chain & pin, lens from artist’s reading glasses.

Ring. Acorn cup, shell cameo, steel coated wire, chewing gum.

Left to right:

Chain. Kōwhai seeds and cracked sill.

Installation detail. Detritus from the workshop.

Ring. Faux pearl beads and debris in the workshop floor.

Left to right:

Brooch. Kōwhai seeds, freshwater pearls, cotton thread, tacks, sole of the artist’s gum boot.

Necklace. Twine from flax leaves and discarded plastic wrap, faux pearls, artist’s headphones.

Chain. Kōwhai seeds and cracked sill.

Left to right:

Neckpiece. Lichen, cotton thread, steel coated wire, plastic twine, shredded paper, artist’s hair and comb.

Installation view. Workshop, Massey University, Wellington, NZ.