Artist Statement

Art is a reflection of the individual, who is a reflection of their world.

As an artist, I experience an urge to create using a sense of aesthetic rightness, merged with a feeling of affiliation and resonance with the design. As a designer, I have an obsession with the cultivation of form and function. As an author, I tell the story of how a wearer investigates the relationship they have between their identity and their ornamentation.

There is a narrative of growth and sustenance that the natural world provides- the nurturing of inspiration. An artist cultivates inspiration from their world, and assimilates that information into their practice.

Jewellery is an articulation of these ideas- of the way that environments impact form, of the way that social preoccupations result in emphasis on methods or the way that psychology influences pattern and line.

My own practice is in metalwork, although over the years I consider my work more of a design process which is informed by metalwork and jewellery ornamentation. My interest in the inner narrative of the artist is bound in my fascination with how we project this onto the body. The body, how we choose to ornament it, is a reflection of how the wearer sees themselves, or how they wish others to read them.

My own aesthetic reflects sculptural principles, and architectural elements of design, as well as pattern forming in nature.

I have a long obsession with the kinds of intersections that occur when geometric, stable forms are bent along curves and undulations. To me, they echo the structures of organisms- the building blocks of life. I feel this path of architecture and design is a response to the challenge that the natural world throws an artist- to design for structure, whilst giving the impression of effortlessness and the ephemeral.

- Danielle Day, January 2012