January 2009

New Work by Emma Jane Donald

Emma Jane Donald is fascinated by how things work and how they are made. Her work reflects an attention to construction processes and a commitment to artisanal modes of production. Her design process often involves the appropriation of basic building forms from history – pyramids, domes – interpreted on a smaller, more personal scale.

Emma’s work is often informed by a continuing fascination with micro-organisms, tessellations, geodesic domes, space travel and the aesthetics of futuristic architecture. She explores these apparently incongruent elements and interests in her work, finding ways to reconcile and marry the aesthetic worlds of the organic and the industrial.

Emma was recently featured in Hot designs of the times, by Janice Breen Burns, The Age, January 2, 2009

Images:
Round Inverted Studded cuff
Sterling silver
Photo: Terence Bogue

Hinged Star necklace
Oxidised sterling silver
Photo: Terence Bogue


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