• Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery

    Julie Usel

  • Untitled, Julie Usel, 20 x 15 x 0.1 cm, Ink on paper and gold leaves

    Untitled, Julie Usel, 20 x 15 x 0.1 cm, Ink on paper and gold leaves

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  • What physical form could I give to anxiety? How do we wear anxiety; how does it reveal itself on the body? Could I induce this feeling through jewellery?


    The relationship between anxiety and the creative process fascinates me as both a woman and an artist; the creation of art becomes a metaphor for procreation itself. This concept is manifest, both literally and figuratively, in the objects themselves which contain elements of creation, destruction, metamorphosis and evolution.


    The work is a physical and emotional journey, exploring and externalising emotions as objects, and invoking the tension we all feel concerning change.


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