Melbourne jeweller and metalsmith Sally Marsland pushes the boundaries of traditional jewellery, reknowned for turning rugged materials into wearable art.
Sally Marsland / Artist biography
Marsland has made a career of pushing the boundaries of traditional jewellery – fashioning jewellery from bicycle tubing, resin or wood as easily as she casts with silver or fabricates with gold. She doesn’t discriminate between materials, "the spectrum is a lot wider than a lot of people think," she explains. Gold and silver may be ubiquitous, "but much more is possible if you expand the parameters."
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Marsland, whose works are included in museum collections from Tokyo to Tasmania, regularly exhibits at Gallery Funaki in Melbourne, and has shown work in Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, UK, USA, New Zealand and Japan. Marsland showed at the Salon International, Munich in 2004 and SOFA Chicago 2007. Marsland was awarded the 2002 Herbert Hoffman Prize, the 2006 Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, and in 2001 was the commissioned jeweller for the Australia Council's Visual Arts/Craft Emeritus Medal.
