About daughter of mercury
Metalworks
Statement:
Daughter of Mercury Metalworks creates unconventional art jewellery, visually inspired by history, architecture, fantasy & sci-fi (to keep it brief). Her jewels are meditations on the human soul and psych - death, consciousness, and perception are common meditations.
The best way to describe the impetus behind what I do is to describe a feeling
- The tension of walking through a cemetery at night
- The feeling of something ancient and meaningful from a deck of tarot cards
Things that, maybe against your better judgement, make you feel a feeling of something more. These archetypal human feelings - metaphysical but inherently and deeply human.
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I try to tell myself I don't believe in the metaphysical, but I cannot help myself but indulge and keep striving to make sense of these feelings.
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My searching through making is immersing myself in those feelings; eeriness, confusion, connection, meaning, depth, allowing myself to get lost, then pulling it all together in an attempt to find somewhere new, to find connection to the collective, and to possibly replace my fear of death, loss, insanity, etc. with understanding.
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It might be stupid, nobody else might feel that way at all, but I do, and that is why I do it.
Origin story:
I am Sarah, I am a jeweller/metalsmith in Scotland. I work mainly in steel, brass, and copper with the occasional dash of silver. I like using big indulgent slabs of metal to make big indulgent slabs of jewellery.
My background in making goes all the way back to my childhood, helping (read: bugging) my grandfather in his wood workshop. Through my years in school I wondered and meandered and dabbled my way through different mediums and vocations until I came to metalworking. It was in a carpentry class when in an extra project there was a call to dish a small piece of sheet steel and braze on a short section of pipe to make a candle holder, and the moment I set hammer to metal my fate was sealed!
The following years I got myself into metalwork classes, progressed to smithing, attended Hereford College of Art’s Artist Blacksmithing degree course at the National School of Blacksmithing and it was there towards the end of my degree where I started back towards sheet metal work/repoussé, and subsequently adorning the body with it, as opposed to hot forging.
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After an unplanned hiatus after graduation, I finally begun working again in late 2016/early 2017. At first everything was just sort of amorphous, freestlye outbursts of craft with no real aim at all, but making is in my blood and was always going to manifest itsself eventually! Not long after these first slow grinding revolutions, the dam broke, the sketchbook came out, and then the art came back.
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THis is me
