SIM LÜTTIN

I was invited to participate in the group exhibition Island Welcome curated by Belinda Newick at Craft in Watson Place in Melbourne, which opened 7 June 2018. The exhibition explored contemporary jewellery as a gesture of greeting. Inspired by the welcome garland found in many traditional island cultures, the artists each made a neckpiece interpreting the theme of ‘welcome' in response to current Australian immigration and refugee policy. The exhibition builds on the first it

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre has acquired a piece of my work from the exhibition Keepsake that I presented with Melbourne-based painter Kir

2013 Neckpiece Recycled Australian hardwood, oil pencil, nylon & steel thread D: 330 x H: 25mm Edition 1 of 1 From the collection and exhibition 'These Moments Existed': A project exploring everyday moments with an air of ambivalence and melancholy. #contemporary #contemporaryartjewellery #craft #jewellery #melancholy #neckpiece #banner

"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy." ~ Charles Baudelaire ~ My current work Melancholy Series poetically explores notions of beauty, nostalgia and passing time. My jewellery questions 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. This latest collection embodies pathos, and evoke

2008 Neckpiece Sterling + fine silver, hematite, onyx, oxidised 152 x 152mm Edition 1 of 1 Three major pieces including Mourning: The Little Things accompanied the Piece-a-day collection, comprising a series of mourning jewellery that responded to the journey of the everyday experience recorded by the miniatures. Embodying the collective memories of the project, Mourning Series are creations that reflect on how the Piece-a-day was to be remembered; they provided closure t

2006 Neckpiece Silver, oxidised 500 x 500 x 2mm Edition 1 of 1 SOLD Small interpretations of the everyday in nature – quiet, understated, easily overlooked. #contemporary #contemporaryartjewellery #exhibition #jewellery #melancholy #neckpiece #silver #simluttin #wearable

2006 Neckpiece Silver, oxidised 220 x 220 x 5mm Edition 1 of 1 Small observations whilst wandering through a forest dwelling in Maine, US. It's almost as though the renderings are a record of fleeting thoughts, captured in a quiet moment. #contemporary #contemporaryartjewellery #craft #forgirls #jewellery #landscape #littlethings #love #neckpiece #melancholy #simluttin #wearable

2005 Neckpiece Sterling silver, silk thread, oxidised 27 x 27 x .6cm Edition 1 of 1 Paper Castles neckpiece is part of a series of neckpieces, earrings, and rings that play with paper-like forms that are playful yet contemporary. #contemporary #contemporaryartjewellery #craft #forgirls #jewellery #neckpiece #oxidised #simluttin #wearable