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Emma’s degree show collection is inspired by the beauty of urban environments, with a particular emphasis on graffiti. She’s fascinated by the often overlooked humour and skill involved with graffiti as well as the physical relief and surface of the continuous layers of spray paint.

She relishes experimenting with materials and therefore has produced a unique range of collaged jewellery. Within her work, Emma draws the focus of her pieces not to any precious material content but rather to the more “disposable”, non-precious materials such as cardboard and actual pieces of graffiti. She does this in order to provoke people to question how they assess material value, as she believes that “value and beauty can be found anywhere - even within “worthless” materials, like fragments of “vandalism”."

To construct her work, Emma extensively experiments with vitreous enamel – combining it with textile techniques such as weaving and sewing to produce new ways to innovatively attach fastenings for brooches, and settings for found materials as well as setting stones without the use of soldering. Her interest in experimental enamelling began last year when she was awarded a bursary to do a short course in vitreous enamel with Elizabeth Turrell at West Dean.