Make:waste

Make:waste is an exhibition that includes twelve emerging jewellers and metal artists, utilising circular practices to explore themes of recycling, repair and reimagining. Participants reflect on their practices and what it means to be a maker in an economically uncertain time.

Dates 24 Oct.—31 Oct. Hours Sat. 24 Oct. 5pm—8pm Sun.—Sat. 12pm—4pm Opening Sat. 24 Oct., 5pm—8pm Address CLAW Creative 120-122 Alexandra Pde, Ngár-go/Fitzroy 3065 Accessibility Not wheelchair accessible Artists ANGELICA ZUMPO is an emerging jeweller and multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Narrm. Utilising precious metals, semi-precious gemstones, and found fabric and ephemera, she creates bespoke jewellery and small scale objects inspired by her interest in ancient worlds. Specifically, the juxtaposition of ancient motifs and symbols with contemporary insights, intertwining them with precious metals and found fabrics and materials. Through the wearable and hand-held objects she creates, she investigates community and intergenerational connections. With a first class honours degree in Fine Art from RMIT university, she has developed a diverse practice that responds to themes of distorted memory, place and personhood in the contemporary landscape.

ANGELIQUE OGIERMAN is a jewellery and small object artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her work focuses on exploring the close, personal connection made between the wearer and their jewellery piece. In recent works, she focused on creating objects with mobile joints that would flow with the body.

ASH MORAN is an emerging object maker and jeweller. Their works are often born from listening to the metals they are working with. When Ash moves metal into a new form, they sense a pull from the piece that dictates its own shape, they will guide it but never push. Raising, forging and forming are the practices Ash is most drawn to.

BREE WILSON is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Her work explores themes around place, sustainability, trauma and identity, with a focus on deep material exploration and silversmithing techniques, such as fusion and patination. Bree draws on her experiences surrounding grief and personal healing, as well as her deep connections to poetry, symbolism and nature, to inform her concepts and materials.

She sees the connection between emotions, ideas, forms and substances and seeks to nurture those relationships at each step of her process.

HANNAH LUK-FINUCANE is a Cantonese/ 'Australian' artist currently living and working from Naarm (Melbourne). Through their practice they explore layered diasporic experiences in relation to the body, working to create spaces of ritual intimacy. After recently receiving their Bachelor of Fine Arts (Gold & Silversmithing) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, they are looking to continue developing their expanded jewellery and object practice.

JUSTINE HIOSAN entered the jewellery world in 2021, completing a Diploma in…