Covering the development of your whole career as an artist - Robert Baines

Art-jewellery cannot be completely free of context. Every material or process has an embedded material cultural history. The goldsmith has an inescapable history but this is not a burden, conundrum or impediment to make an original statement. New contexts can be invented and illustrated with fictitious evidence. Historic or contemporary contexts of the human drama is available to be subverted using the jewellery artifact to convey contextual meanings. Jewellery is the vehicle.