Coming together – moving apart

Hand carved pear wood, hollow form brooch with double stainless steel pin.

Grant has created a series of brooches that have been deliberately stripped of decoration to explore their primal sensory qualities, form, surface, and material. The oval (ovalis in Latin) form is a common motif throughout, a shape which sits at the nucleus of the group. The simplicity of each brooch is balanced by his fascination with the complexity of mechanisms.

Jewellery, for Grant, must be worn to be fully realised. Jewellery should be enduring and practical; it must be elegant and well considered and effortless to wear. The final designs encompass the dynamism of all materials used; the softness of the oval forms with the tension of the stainless steel.