Interview with artist Erin Coates
Q: You're an established visual artist working across sculpture, drawing and video. Which medium do you prefer and why? A: I can't really choose one. They're all interconnected for me. Often when I have an idea, I'll explore it across those three mediums and there'll...
Interview with jewellery artist Brett Barker from iJewellery
Brett Barker comes from a family of artists spanning four generations. He originally trained in Art Education, teaching in High Schools in Western Australia, and worked in the fields of painting, pottery and serigraphy. He then decided to start creating jewellery...
Interview with jewellery artist Sultana Shamshi
Local jewellery artist Sultana Shamshi chats to Western Frontier Traders ahead of a number of exhibitions she has coming up this year.
Interview with jewellery artist Tineke Van der Eecken
Tineke Van der Eecken is a jewellery artist and author born in Flanders, Belgium who now resides in Fremantle, Western Australia. Ms Van der Eecken has been designing and exhibiting jewellery in Australia, Belgium and the United Kingdom for over 15 years. Born in 1967...
Interview with jewellery artist Blandine Hallé
Blandine Hallé draws on her eclectic background to create her jewellery. Blandine Hallé’s art practice is influenced strongly by “both European and Australian cultures that intermesh with each other” she says. Ms Hallé grew up in Paris until she was 26 and travelled...
How to stay creative
Ideally as a creative person you want to keep the creative juices flowing. But we’ve all been there before where we’re staring at a blank page and the words won’t come out. Maybe you have chosen to be a creative as your full time career or you perhaps it’s your side...
Interview with jewellery designer Maxine Clarke
Maxine Clarke has always enjoyed learning new creative techniques and dabbled in leadlight, folk art, macramé and woodwork before discovering jewellery. Initially she obtained an advanced certificate of metaphysics in colour therapy. She loves being able to...
Resin jewellery on trend in 2021
In an article by Harper’s Bazaar named Five Jewelry Trends Straight from the Spring 2021 Runways it showed that resin jewellery was worn on the runway this year.
Interview with local metalsmith Jade Anderson
After celebrating National Jewel Day on March 13th 2021, what better way to recognize the jewellery trade than to share an interview with local metalsmith Jade Anderson. If you didn’t have a chance to read her interview in the October edition of the Mobimag the...