Precious Materials

Figure 1- Hanevold. I. 2009. Bracelet, Silver (oxidising, and scratching) 

 Precious materials are considered to be rare and natural like gold, silver, platinum and diamonds. These materials have played a bigger role in the jewellery industry as an investment status on expensive materials, that holds a high economic value in contemporary jewellery and art-jewellery.

The history of gold and silver has been co-existing for years in jewellery manufacturing through precious materials, we still find goldsmith like Ingjerd Hanevold, who creates jewellery that is made from silver, which was darkened through oxidising, scratching and heavily brushing the surface. Her work has inspired me to focus on how to construct a bent sheet of silver with invisible joins of pins and soldering. Her jewellery work has great elements on repetition as seen in figure 1,which is what I am looking forward to do on my research.