Tessa Holland
Jewellery

I combine traditional fine metalworking skills with unconventional materials and a touch of fancy.

In some pieces the emphasis is on exploring the visual and working properties of a material.  At other times, I entertain myself rethinking how a piece can hang, pierce, entangle or alight upon the body. There should always be something surprising.

I try to keep learning, keep experimenting... keep pondering on why and how we decorate ourselves.

BIOGRAPHY

My childhood was spent living in Lesotho, Corfu and later in the UK.

I took an Art History degree, then trained as a jeweller under the traditional City & Guilds system, at the Cass School in London.

Current workshop is at 36 Lime Street, Newcastle where I make work to exhibit, to sell and by commission. Sculptural wire workshops with children and adults also form part of my practice.

Q&A's

Describe your creative practice in 20 single words.

simple

thoughtful

playful 

elegant

Skilled

Describe your influences using 30 single words or short phrases.

Scale - how sub-atomic energy-structures manifest as solid, tangible objects with particular physical properties

Things I see, feel and read.  Things that move or tickle me

Genetics, economics, politics, ethics, chemistry, stories

More the making and the cherishing; less the price and hype