About Jo Pond
Discovering jewellery during her formative years at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Jo progressed through Berkshire and Loughborough Colleges of Art & Design, establishing her design process some years later, during her Masters at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham.
Jo Pond comes from a family of 'Ponds' who appear to have a genetic necessity for hoarding; digging up metal detector finds was the foundation of a passion for objects which others might not quite appreciate. Utilising this drive to accumulate the unconventional and unwanted, coupled with an aesthetic appreciation of the details of decomposition and change, she chooses to incorporate items potentially paradoxical within jewellery, to create beautiful and on occasion, confusing objects. Employing symbolic references of form, material and technique, Jo dabbles in the potential for wearable items to become vehicles for communication; whether through sense, nostalgia, or knowledge.