Adele Brereton

I grew up playing with clay in my Mum’s pottery studio in South East London. She taught me how to make pinch pots and coil pots. The feeling of the clay stretching and growing has informed the way I approach working with metal. I use the process of hand raising to sculpt silver and gold, creating tactile jewellery and objects that look and feel like they have been hand formed rather than hammered many hundreds of times.

My work is based around discarded and eroded manmade objects, that results in an inherently organic aesthetic. I am drawn to hollow and irregular forms, often returning to the broken Victorian smoking pipe bowls I have found at the foreshore of the River Thames.

My pieces are made using 100% recycled precious metals and my studio uses no harmful chemicals.