SACM!

Wow it's been a busy couple of months! I haven't had much time to myself, let alone time to give to my 2 followers. So hopefully I can make up for that today. I have taken a temporary position as the technician of the Jewellery Department at the Durban University of Technology, where I was a student for the past 5 years. So my time has been fulled up with ordering, repairing and looking after students. Ive got allot of the major stuff sorted, and the systems that I've put into place seem to be working. So hopefully I will have a bit more time to blog an do some of my own work.
In February I was fortunate enough to be selected to display my work at the Design Indaba in Cape Town. During the Indaba I met a journalist named Rodain Joubert (who hopefully isn't too bumbed that I'm only putting this up now) from South African Computer Magazine, or SACM, as its known. Rodain asked me if he could do an interview for the magazine, and he wrote this
awesome article on technology in art entitled "Move Over Mona Lisa"

Thank you Rodain Joubert and the guys at SACM for the great article and the publicity that all us South African artists are looking for.

Flexi Keyboard Bangles and HandBag

Hi guys. Its been a while since ive done this so i hope i havent lost all of my followers. Ive been super busy making new work and ive just started a temporary job at DUT where i studied. Its the position as the workshop technician, so im pretty much running the jewellery workshop until a replacement can be found for the old technician. So far it seems to be quite a cool job. Im doing the things in the workshop that ive wanted to do for a long time, only now they paying me for it.

Im still making my own stuff in my spare time and have been invited to be in an upcoming exhibition.

I came up with these bangles just before i went to Design Indaba in Cape Town. They are made from Flexible Computer Keyboards and have had a great response. At the moment i am making a number of them to sell in shops in Cape Town, so until i find a place in Durban, thats where theyll be.

I had this great idea while talking to some designed friends of mine, Zane and Rachel, to make a handbag from one of the keyboards. Well after some experimenting with eyelets, i got it right. Ive had some serious reactions from this, so lets hope i can sell them now.

Design Indaba 2009

Hi everyone. I have just returned from the Design Indaba in Cape Town. Thank you to all the organizers and the people who made the Design Indaba the most amazing expierience of my jewellery career. Thank you to Bev Cupido who was there to make sure that me and the other 39 Emerging Creatives made it there and were able to display our work. And thank you to all who visited my stand and spoke to me.

I will be putting up my photos from Design Indaba and photos of all my new work as soon as i get the pics on my computer, so please check my blog again soon! I look forward to hearing from you soon.