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Sim Luttin is a contemporary jeweller and object maker from Melbourne, Australia. She graduated with Distinction with a BFA in Gold and Silversmithing from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia. Sim then moved to South Australia to develop her jewellery design and professional skills as a Metals Associate in the Career Development Scheme at the JamFactory: Contemporary Craft and Design in Adelaide. She worked for two years in a team environment co-managing $100,000+ studio, public art and commission projects as well as expanding her own jewellery practice under the tutelage of Studio Director Sue Lorraine. Concurrently, Sim studied Arts Management at the University of South Australia, and graduated with a Graduate Diploma while also volunteering as an Administrative Assistant at Craftsouth: Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design.
Since moving to the United States in 2005 to embark on her MFA, Sim has focused on developing her jewellery career. Currently she is studying in the Department of Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design at the School of Fine Arts at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana under Professor Randy Long and Assistant Professor Nicole Jacquard. Sim continues to develop both as a maker, arts administrator and as a curator of contemporary jewellery and hollowware.
In 2006 Sim was awarded a Women’s Jewelry Association Student Scholarship (Top 3) as well as a Technical Assistant Scholarship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, USA to assist Australian artist Julie Blyfield. She is represented by Studio Ingot Melbourne, AUS; Zu Design: Jewellery + Objects, Adelaide, AUS; JamFactory: Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, AUS; FORM: Contemporary Craft and Design Inc., Aspects of Kings Park, Perth, AUS; and Moose: Art For Living: Perth, AUS. Sim is currently in the United States completing her MFA, while working in Public Relations at the Indiana University SoFA Gallery where after graduating she will return to Melbourne, Australia to live and work.