Location: Australian Design Centre, 101-115 William St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Date/Time: 10th Oct – 19th Nov, 2025
Remade-Reloved 25 is an invitation to look again at what we discard and to imagine new possibilities for its worth.
Each year, this ongoing project, curated by Bridget Kennedy, brings together a group of contemporary makers to explore the principles of the circular economy through the lens of jewellery and small object practice.
For each iteration, participants, from emerging makers to well-established jewellery artists, receive a bag of broken or unwanted costume jewellery generously donated by the community.
The premise is simple, but provides a creative challenge: to take these overlooked, mass-produced adornments and transform them into new contemporary works that provoke thought about the value we place on materials.
Using costume jewellery as the primary material, invites makers to experiment and adapt their usual techniques, through smashing, melting, reconfiguring, layering, deconstructing, and reconstructing, pushing the material and themselves into unfamiliar territory.
Some of the invited artists are new to working with these materials, which allows exploration of jewellery-making in fresh ways, by stepping outside their usual practice to see how these materials can speak through new forms.
For others who already work with reclaimed or found materials, the exhibition extends their commitment to reuse, but within the specific context of these donated objects, each piece carrying traces of past owners and forgotten trends.In doing so, Remade-Reloved is not just an exhibition of contemporary jewellery and object; it’s an experiment in recontextualising the everyday. It invites both makers and audiences to consider how waste can be a resource, and how creative practice can shift our relationship to consumption and value.
This is adornment with a conscience and a reminder that transformation often begins with what we already have, waiting to be seen afresh.
Artists exhibiting – Linda Blair, Melissa Cameron, Anna Davern, Laura Deakin, Celia Dottore, Sian Edwards, Jenny Fahey, Lisa Furno, Szilvia Gyorgy, Pennie Jagiello, Bridget Kennedy, Erin Keys, Regina Krawets, Vicki Mason, Regina Middleton, Kaoru Rogers, Margarita Sampson, Mel Young,
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Linda studied Jewellery and Object Design and Jewellery Manufacturer at the Design Centre Enmore. Her practice has largely been based around enamelled jewellery and small scale sculpural objects based on history or the natural world. After recently undertaking wood carving and surface finishing courses she has incorporated these techniques into her work.
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Melissa is an Australian artist who works on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo/Perth, and has lived and worked in Naarm/Melbourne and on Duwamish lands in Seattle, USA. Her aesthetic sensibility is influenced by her early studies in computer science and her first career and BFA (hons) in interior architecture (Curtin University, 2001). She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Jewellery Production (Curtin University, 2006) and a jewellery and metalsmithing MFA (Monash University, 2009).
Her practice alternates between meticulously researched socially aware / protest art, and technology / materials-based investigations.
She has works in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, and Cheongju Collection in South Korea, amongst others, and she has exhibited in the prestigious Schmuck exhibition in Munich. Cameron has received grants and prizes, presented at conferences, attended residencies, and published writings on jewellery and architecture globally.
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Celia Dottore is an artist, curator and writer living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Art and Applied Design from Adelaide College of the Arts and a Master of Arts (Studies in Art History) from the University of Adelaide.
Working primarily with sterling silver, alongside found and collected materials, Celia’s approach is largely intuitive, transforming and connecting her chosen materials. Her work explores themes of memory, ritual, superstition and sentimentality, often drawing inspiration from nature, religious art and philosophy. Through her practice she examines the deeper meaning and symbolism we attach to body adornment and decorative objects within our daily lives
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Sian Edwards is a jewellery and object artist and maker. Taking inspiration from a multitude of sources, her work is defined by an interest in detail, repetition, pattern, and light. With a focus on animals, her work references both the rich historical use of animals in adornment and the actual animals that share our world. Her work is playful, illustrative, and at times delves deeper, undertaking anatomical material studies of her chosen subjects. Her approach to materials considers their relationship to the body through tactile qualities such as movement and texture.
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Lisa Furno lives and works on Bundjalung Country. She is an artist that integrates photography, objects, performance, installations and contemporary jewellery into her practice.
Lisa uses second-hand materials to create thought provoking objects and installations. Each object invites audiences to unravel its layers of meaning and discover a slightly dark sense of humour, one that challenges our relationship with consumerism and asks important questions about its long-term social, ethical and environmental impact.
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Szilvia Gyorgy is an artist who works primarily with porcelain and light, and enjoys making things that are on the overlap of sculpture and design. She is happiest when experimenting with various materials and responding to the qualities they have to offer.
Szilvia spent her formative years in Hungary, but has been living in Sydney most of her adult life. Her works are found in collections throughout the world.
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Pennie Jagiello is an accomplished Melbourne based contemporary jeweller who recently completed a Masters in Art at RMIT, titled: ‘Remains to be seen, worn and heard: an inquiry into anthropogenic debris investigated through contemporary jewellery objects‘. Her ongoing research investigates the objects we use & discard, and the environmental consequences of unsustainable practices. Her master’s body of work was constructed entirely from anthropogenic debris collected from beaches and coastal environs across Victoria, New South Wales & the Pilbara. Pennie was a finalist in the 2017 Victorian Craft Award, and recently selected for a residency with Form Gallery in Western Australia, which enabled her to visit the Pilbara during 2014-16. Her works have been exhibited nationally at selected Craft and Design galleries, as well as showing in alternative art spaces. Pennie is a short course lecturer in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT, as well as a guest lecturer in the School of Art.
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Erin Keys is a contemporary craft practitioner with 25 years’ experience as a jeweller, designer and educator. Working on Gadigal land, she teaches from The Bench Sydney, a jewellery school and workshop. Her practice is rooted in fiction, archaeology and prehistory, resulting in a symbolic configuration that becomes an aesthetic artefact of her urban landscape. Exploring the space between materials and that which is concealed, she collates memories and draws meaning from remnant matter. By mapping her body within space, she simultaneously assumes the roles of both archivist and interpreter, obscuring the distinction between a fictional and an archetypal archive.
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Having enjoyed a career in interior design, in 2021 Regina completed a Bachelor of Design at UNSW Art & Design and a jeweller’s trade course in 2023 to hone her technical skills and pursue her passion for creating contemporary jewellery pieces in fine metals that merge a love of architectural forms, colour and textiles to create contemporary objects of adornment.
Building on an appreciation of repetition in design and the belief in the maxim that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts that first attracted her to complex beadwork, Regina continues to draw inspiration from her urban environment exploring notions of its intersection with nature and its inhabitants, identity and belonging as well as issues of sustainability.
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Vicki Mason (b New Zealand) completed a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies at the University of Otago and a Diploma in Craft Design from Otago Polytechnic School of Art (Jewellery) before working at Fluxus workshop/gallery with renowned goldsmith Kobi Bosshard. She was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree (Research) in Gold and Silversmithing (ANU) in 2012.
She runs production and exhibition practices, teaches, and interviews for Art Jewelry Forum, the international online platform for contemporary jewellery. Mason has been awarded many grants and awards including the prestigious Australia Council for the Arts Barcelona Studio residency in 2014. Her work is held in both public and private collections including the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Shanghai, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney and the Art Gallery of South Australia. She is treasurer of the World Crafts Council – Australia
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Regina Middleton is an Artist and Jeweller who resides on Wadawurrung Country along the coastal dunes of Torquay. Regina holds a Bachelor of Arts – Jewellery Design, Curtin University and an Honours in Fine Art, Monash University. The works made for re:made re:loved were completed during a 3 month secondment to Aotearoa, with the highs and lows of being the mother of two young energetic children.
Inspired by the natural world, Regina’s practice begins with collecting, predominantly drawn to weathered plastics/ marine debris/ flotsam and jetsam. These materials are then paired with traditionally precious materials, elevating their perceived value. Themes of femininity, consumption and grief are intertwined; enticing the viewer to pause and reflect, igniting curiosity and welcoming connection.
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Kaoru Rogers is a Japanese Australian artist exploring materials, repetition and combinations. Her process is akin to puzzle making, shuffling elements into the right composition and finding the perfect balance in how forms can sway, flutter, hang or perch.
Born in Tokyo but growing up, living and working in Canada, New York, Hawaii and Los Angeles, her work is influenced by her diverse experience.
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Margarita Sampson is a Norfolk Island based sculptor and maker. Her work is strongly influenced by her Norfolk Island background, referencing natural forms, patterns & textures, in particular underwater lifeforms.
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Melinda Young lives and works on Dharawal Country. Her research-based practice spans jewellery and intimately scaled textiles reflecting experiences of being in and understanding place, underpinned by complexities of place-based making in contemporary Australia. She is interested in materiality – the traces of human and non-human interactions left behind on the body and the land. Exhibiting extensively in Australia and internationally since 1997, her work is held in public collections and included in numerous publications. Melinda is an Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture UNSW and undertaking a PhD in Human Geography and Creative Arts, University of Wollongong
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