About Adele Brereton
Adele’s jewellery references her urban surroundings of London and the city’s industrial past. Drawn to hollow and irregular forms, she often returns to the sherds of Victorian smoking pipes found at the foreshore of the River Thames and the rusty washers and fragments collected from the kerbside as she walks to her studio.
Adele grew up playing with clay in her Mum’s pottery studio in South East London, being taught how to make pinch pots and coil pots. The feeling of the clay stretching and moving in her hands has informed the way she approaches working with metal.
Using the traditional hammering techniques of hand raising and anti clastic raising, Adele manipulates silver or gold from a flat sheet into a hollow form. In her one-off pieces, Adele creates multiple elements and works intuitively to piece them together into sculptural objects.
Adele Studied Silversmithing and Jewellery at Edinburgh College of Art, followed by a postgraduate residency at Bishopsland Educational Trust. She has been creating jewellery and objects in her studio since 2008 and has been the recipient of a number of awards. Her work is in the silver collection of New College, University of Oxford.