Anne Morgan

 

Anne's current work incorporates Japanese Washi  paper, which is lacquered and inlayed into silver. The paper gives the illusion of enamel with its glass like finish. This range explores pattern and colour. Simple but strong lines are used in combination. The papers used are often one offs and each piece is always different, even within pairs.

In her Moonscape range, she enjoys silver's potential for texture and her ranges explore the relationship of look and feel in the materials she uses. Her creations proudly show off their origins in workshop experimentation. This is what makes her reticulated silver surfaces in particular unique: each marks a precise moment in which she withdraws her flame from part-liquefied silver.
Once she has perfected these surfaces Anne off sets them with strong lines. She forges a relationship between organic texture and a simple geometry, rather like the placing of a formal structure in a natural landscape. She sets up a coupling in which each element complements the other.
 
Anne is also working on, with the help of the Arts Council of  Wales project grant, a collection of jewellery that has the capacity to hold a memory chip, bringing the latest functional technology firmly into an aesthetic setting. Designed not only to be worn Manscape is an interface into the memories of the wearer. When the USB chip is plugged in, the wearer has access to a myriad of multimedia. Photographs, songs, sound recordings, videos etc…. most treasured memories, stored in the jewellery, each piece individual and customizable, unique to the wearer.
This jewellery becomes "Portable Digital Safe-keeps", wearable memories.

Anne is a member of the Association of Contemporary Jewellery, and the Makers Guild in Wales with whom she exhibits nationally and internationally. Anne is also a member of Design Gap.