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AugA is a travelling Fine Jewellery pop-up exhibition, showcasing the work of Rebecca Steiner and Ellen Monaghan. Each show gives you the opportunity to meet, view current work and collaborative projects, and commission work from these award-winning designers.

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REBECCA STEINER FINE JEWELLERY

Rebecca Steiner Fine Jewellery offers exclusive, handmade jewellery pieces to customers around the world. Rebecca's very distinct style and work in gold, silver and precious gemstones has seen her win many awards since she established Rebecca Steiner Fine Jewellery in 2005.

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Doodle collection Gemstone bracelet 18ct gold cluster ring with pearl Silver cuff



3rd AugA Collaboration Project: Identity Swap 2012

Notes and sketches from the Identity Swap Project. See the finished bangle at: http://www.augalondon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/collaborative-project-3-identity-swap_10.html








The AugA Collaboration Project 2012

Some notes and sketches from stage 1 of the process:



 Piercing out the pattern and annealing ready for hammering




Meanwhile, alongside this I worked on a two-tone, two-way ring (see notes above):
For those of you who can't read my writing, here is what it says:
"[The second ring is] a very geometric, two-tone ring. It can either lie flat against the next door finger or point upwards as a statement ring. To give it more solidity I soldered the silver to a piece of brass. This also seemed to bring in some elements of Ellen's metal combinations that she often uses in her work - another technique to take on board."

Ok, so lets ignore the fact that my grammer and use of language seem to go a bit haywire in the workshop and look at some of the photos...






And below is the piece I have passed on to Ellen. It is smooth on the left and becomes hammered out towards the ends. I've left it fairly flat so that it can be manipulated in whichever way she likes - I am excited to see what she makes of it!



Stage 2:

I wasn't sure what I was expecting when I opened Ellen's box, but it certainly wasn't this!

Ellen's wax piece arrives (and meets its other half)


It is a world away from the pillow shapes she created last time, although I do remember the first time I set about melting blobs of wax and I can imagine she had a lot of fun.
After a study of the shapes and forms within the piece, I decided to cut it in half...


A spirally hole at the base of one half inspires me to drill it and attach onto the protruding brass sections of the ring

... The other half swiftly follows



I like how the two pieces seem to mirror each other from certain angles
After a little filing and adding some extra blobbiness, the meltedy ring is ready for casting.

I have decided to cast the pieces into brass to match the base of the ring. This wasn't discussed with Ellen; she is expecting to receive silver pieces but I really think brass will work well. Let's see what happens!


After casting:

 The brass pieces came back from the casters last week, they look great! I redrilled them and tried them out on the ring. It seemed a little imbalanced so I added another silver/brass section:

The lots of fiddling around, deciding and re-deciding later, I was out of time so was left no choice but to pass on what I have! And here it is. I kept the sprue at the top as it looks intriguingly like a bottle cap, which seemed to link with the liquidy look of the ring. Now to swap with Ellen one last time...




Stage 3:

Here are the pieces I have received from Ellen:


I really liked her simple and delicate treatment of the piece I had passed her way, but couldn't match it well with the heavy blocks of the second piece.
 

 There is something in these balancing pebbles however... I decide to keep them but change the surface they are sitting on.


This hammered curve could wrap around the existing ring...

 

And the bobbles sit on top






Hmm, nearly there, just needs some little tweaks...