Internationally-renowned jeweller Julie Blyfield creates jewellery that draws upon her family history and utilises decorative techniques such as computer engraving, surface chasing and metal raising. She is a partner in Adelaide’s Gray Street Workshop, a centre of excellence in South Australia's craft and design sector in contemporary jewellery.
Julie Blyfield / Artist biography
In the past Blyfield explored the role of jewellery and the hand-held object in relation to memory and commemoration. Her recent works are characterised by botanical forms with strong sculptural qualities. Using materials such as silver and copper, enamel paint she explores ideas of transience and permanence through subject form and material.
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Her work is held at institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the National Gallery of Australia. Blyfield completed a residency with Frank Bauer in 2002-03, as well as residencies in New Zealand and the UK. Blyfield is a regular exhibitor at SOFA, and has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. Blyfield showed at Collect 2008, London at Victoria and Albert Museum, London represented by Galerie Ra.
