Katie Stormonth
Rip Tides
About the artist
Katie Stormonth is a contemporary jeweller based in Brisbane, Australia and is one of the founding members of Bench (a collective jewellery studio). She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours in 2011 and currently works as the technical officer (Jewellery and Small Objects) at Griffith University. Her practice aims to expand the boundaries of wearable body adornment through experimentation of materials and forms. She constructs alluring arrangements of repetitious forms and painted surfaces, highlighting the patterns of bold and decorative chased line work, aiming to provoke the wearer to both see and feel the pieces.
Katie Stormonth is a contemporary jeweller based in Brisbane, Australia and is one of the founding members of Bench (a collective jewellery studio). She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours in 2011 and currently works as the technical officer (Jewellery and Small Objects) at Griffith University. Her practice aims to expand the boundaries of wearable body adornment through experimentation of materials and forms. She constructs alluring arrangements of repetitious forms and painted surfaces, highlighting the patterns of bold and decorative chased line work, aiming to provoke the wearer to both see and feel the pieces.
Rip Tides
Rip Tides a series of five brooches, explores the dangerous rips that so regularly occur at our iconic beaches. When thinking of Queensland, my mind is instantly drawn to iconography of our beaches, the soft white sand and clear blue water, the beaches are a beautiful sight but also hold great dangers that many don’t always recognise at a glance. I was interested in the formations that occur when rip currents develop in the water, splitting in opposite directions the currents pull from either side. Visually the rips create and interesting and appealing pattern however the danger they hold is not often realised until caught within its grasp.
Rip Tides a series of five brooches, explores the dangerous rips that so regularly occur at our iconic beaches. When thinking of Queensland, my mind is instantly drawn to iconography of our beaches, the soft white sand and clear blue water, the beaches are a beautiful sight but also hold great dangers that many don’t always recognise at a glance. I was interested in the formations that occur when rip currents develop in the water, splitting in opposite directions the currents pull from either side. Visually the rips create and interesting and appealing pattern however the danger they hold is not often realised until caught within its grasp.
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