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Artist's Statement

A recent MA graduate from Edinburgh College of Art, jeweller Kirsty Sumerling has a delicate aesthetic that appreciates transient beauty and impermanence; combining shards of decay with contemporary structure. She is interested in the contrast between the indeterminate results of patina and the controlled process of workmanship.

Intrigued by the effects of time and decay, especially places and objects that have fallen into a state of disrepair, she explores this condition of neglect in enamel, playing with both control and unpredictability. "I create structures that frame embedded time and change within a surface. A state of impermanence is encased beneath the surface indicating that a transformation has occured over a period of time".

The resulting work is unpredictable and unexpected; a product of a process deliberately out of her control. Undetermined paintings of rust-coloured patterns, created by nature and left to chance, are trapped within linear frameworks. By isolating sections of a surface, much like the viewfinder of a camera, or the framing and judgement of the photographer, the viewer is compelled to focus on the unusual natural beauty framed within.

This jewellery focuses on the beauty of surface decay and the resulting work appears as a series of snapshots of surfaces frozen in time