Plastic Lustre, brooch

Katherine Hubble

Plastic Lustre, Brooch, 2021
Polypropylene, thermoforming plastic, acrylic, vinyl tint, silver, steel Plastic.
110 x 65 x 30mm

Lustre seeks to reimagine shell jewellery through a contemporary practice. The making of these works employs a combination of industrial processes and traditional jewellery methods to create twenty first century shell jewellery. The Industrial process of vacuum forming is used to reimagine one of the most traditional ornamental craft motifs of the shell. Contemporary plastics are used to challenge the notion of preciousness with this jewellery materials. Katherine Hubble is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art at RMIT. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Art in 2016 and was awarded The 2016 Wolf Wennwrich Award for Excellence in Gold and Silversmithing. Katherine’s BA graduate work was selected to exhibit in ‘Fresh!’, Selected Victorian graduates in contemporary craft and design in Melbourne at Craft Victoria.