Made | Worn – Australian Design Centre, Sydney 2020 (touring to 2022)

Curated by Australian Design Centre, Made / Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery explores the act of making and how jewellery is worn on the body, telling stories that start with the artist and continue through the life of the object worn or experienced, creating new resonances with owners into the future.

Anna’s body of work for Made/Worn is a fantastical retelling of a story of exploration and colonisation. Tapping into the mysteries of ‘under the sea’ and ‘into the woods’, it is a tongue-in-cheek perspective of a fictional 18th Century voyage of discovery and colonisation.

The dioramas illustrate the individual quests and pivotal episodes and feature mechanisms that enable characters to move and interact within the tableau as well as physical elements that can be removed to be worn as jewellery. The neckpieces are portraits of the major players in this journey of exploration and exploitation.