"Years ago I made a necklace by linking many archetypal clasps together – the clasp was the only functioning part of a necklace, the bit that opens and closes. By working only with this part, the whole necklace becomes functional, or the function is so ridicules that its never ending and obsolete. I did not start out to make jewellery. I made an observation that the clasp on a necklace, by circumstance of it being the heaviest point on the chain, works its way to the front of the wearer's neck and basks in the limelight.

One way of resolving this was to create a loop of only clasps, the weight distribution would be even. The front and back are identical, this problem disappears - the necklace can be opened and closed at any point around its perimeter. So an idea lead to a form that operates as jewellery.

Then Paddy from Point Two Five asked me to make more ‘jewellery’. How can I make jewellery when I don’t wear jewellery, don’t like decoration, and not that keen on shiny things?

We had a lovely back and fourth ping pong like email conversation. I wanted to define a form from function. We reduced things down to the archetypal ‘butterfly’ scroll. This functional detachable part of an earring that secures the earring to the wearers ear sits behind the ear lobe and is not normally seen.

We formed a hoop that accommodates 24 ‘butterfly’ scrolls to continues the fastening from the back of the ear, to the front. Form from function. By repeating this tiny detail multiple times, a lovely new form emerges that is both familiar and unexpected."

wendy andreu

sebastian bergne

daniel eatock

harry grundy

theodora alfredsdottir

jamie wolfond