The artists

Di Allison

Di's and fellow artist, Patrick Hall's collaboration is with scientist Russell Bradford.

My work seeks to express the personal through the uniquely intimate medium of jewellery and often incorporates discarded non-precious materials. Toy fragments, cake decorations, even contraceptive pills, have featured in recent works.  For me, this debris from our everyday lives can reflect aspects of ourselves...a regret, a certainty, a sorrow.

Notions of communication are also explored through such symbols as the printed word (usually in the form of text from beauty product packaging), numeric systems and the more coded languages of Morse and Braille.  These visual representations are used in a desire to portray the measurement of the intangible.