Jemma Slade
About
Graduating from Central St Martins in 2008, Jemma worked for luxury jewellery brand Solange Azagury-Partridge for a number of years, before returning home to Wales to teach secondary Art & Design, start a family, and create a bespoke jewellery business of her own. Fuelled by a recent MA in Jewellery & Metal at the RCA (2023 – 2024), Jemma’s practice is currently focusing on an exploration of motherhood through a combination of wearable fine jewellery pieces, and larger scale colourful sculptural pieces.
Through her most recent project, ‘Neon Facets’ Jemma provides viewers with an abstract glimpse into her own personal matrescence. Sharing her adventures and unruly navigation through the turbulent wilds of parenting. Facilitating an exploration of the kaleidoscopic, and inexplicable mysteries of motherhood through material, colour, and form. Trained as a fine goldsmith, this shift to larger sculptural pieces using a combination of neon pigmented jesmonite and bronze, is both exhilarating and terrifying. Experiences that are strangely, (or perhaps not so strangely) synonymous with being a parent.
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