I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. ~ Charles Baudelaire


Sim Luttin is a contemporary jeweller who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

Her current work, Melancholy Series, poetically explores notions of beauty, nostalgia and passing time.

Luttin's jewellery pieces question how the creation of objects can guide or replace memory. As intimate objects, Melancholy Series alludes to forms found in nature, while deliberately abstracting them in order to de-familiarise the familiar.

Luttin's latest collection embodies pathos, and evokes strong feelings of melancholy through an almost alien or foreign lens.

~ 2010