Current/Future Exhibitions
12 May : The Line Gallery, Linlithgow
1 June : Burns an 'a' that Festival, Ayr Town Hall
2 June - 9 Sept : Howden Park Centre, Livingston
14 July : Crab Apple Arts Fair, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
22-25 Nov : MADE 12 "Brighton's Design & Craft Fair
With a passion for architecture and the interstitial spaces created by buildings and other structures, Kirsty Fraser’s jewellery creations boast a strong emphasis on extending beyond traditional approaches to jewellery making. Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in Jewellery & Silversmithing, Kirsty’s intentions throughout have been to create contemporary jewellery pieces which become adornments of the body. Each piece in this exciting collection by the young designer, is a miniature sculpture with strong architectural presence and graphical potential.
Kirsty has drawn her inspiration for this collection from architectural forms and the subtleties of enclosed negative spaces combined with her own photography and graphical mark making. She has focused on how individual photographs can be dissected and specific areas magnified to create a variety of intriguing and never-ending patterns with a lively and experimental quality. Kirsty’s fascination with geometric and angular shape formations, patterns and repetitive sequences has formed the basis of her collection and is a fascinating variable throughout her work.
Much of Kirsty’s imagery has been personally collected from different industrial areas of Scotland as well as countries across Central and East Africa where she spent time travelling and volunteering.
‘I have always had a love of photography and have found this to be a strong factor in my jewellery design. While travelling across Africa, I started to see a new element to my photographs with the emergence of an unexpected subtle geometric and architectural quality.’
Combining her photography with the regimented and structural technique of laser cutting, Kirsty strives to create contrast, intrigue and aesthetic perfection within each individual design.
Kirsty has drawn her inspiration for this collection from architectural forms and the subtleties of enclosed negative spaces combined with her own photography and graphical mark making. She has focused on how individual photographs can be dissected and specific areas magnified to create a variety of intriguing and never-ending patterns with a lively and experimental quality. Kirsty’s fascination with geometric and angular shape formations, patterns and repetitive sequences has formed the basis of her collection and is a fascinating variable throughout her work.
Much of Kirsty’s imagery has been personally collected from different industrial areas of Scotland as well as countries across Central and East Africa where she spent time travelling and volunteering.
‘I have always had a love of photography and have found this to be a strong factor in my jewellery design. While travelling across Africa, I started to see a new element to my photographs with the emergence of an unexpected subtle geometric and architectural quality.’
Combining her photography with the regimented and structural technique of laser cutting, Kirsty strives to create contrast, intrigue and aesthetic perfection within each individual design.
