Contemporary Jewellery

Since the 1960s the boundaries of jewellery have been continually redefined.  Conventions have been challenged by successive generations of independent jewellers, often art college trained and immersed in radical ideas.  Plastics, paper, textiles and new materials have overturned the notions of status traditionally implicit in jewellery.  Boundaries of scale and wearability have been pushed as jewellery has developed into wearable art.