Zoë first thought she wanted to be a jeweller years ago while drunk in the Dublin National History Museum. Looking at the treasures of the Viking Hoards, and the perfectly preserved bracelet of plaited hair on a bog body, she decided she wanted to make something as permanent–something that archeologists might dig up and marvel at in the distant future. She returned to Australia and completed an Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design at Melbourne Polytechnic in 2016, winning the Arbor Mentorship Industry Award. She most recently spent five years moving from house to house in Lismore, with all of her tools in boxes. After a plague, floods, a bout of severe depression, and a diagnosis for ADHD and Autism, she is back at the bench. She works from her studio in Lismore, and spends her Sundays at Hammer and Hand in Bangalow. She works mostly in sterling silver with occasional forays into forging recycled steel. Her work is witchy, kitchy, and cool, playfully mixing classic goth and punk aesthetics with mythological themes, and an at times tongue-in-cheek commentary on the disposability of life and resources in our modern waste-culture, and surveillance and control in the corporate-police-state of late-stage-capitalism. Like all true artists she is filled with crippling self-doubt. She hopes she gets the hang of it all soon.

E-mail:ZoeAceMetal@gmail.com

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