Caz Guiney

I was finally successful in bidding at the NMIT Jewellery fundraising Auction last night (small review of proceedings on Melbourne Jeweller). With a bubbles in one hand and pizza in the other I still managed to steadily hold up my bidding number…impressive.  The above little beauty is by jeweller Tae Schmeisser renowned for her ‘Wheelie [...]

A local friend ‘Bootsie’ alerted me to the fact that the suburban  ‘Soft Rubbish’ intervention I created a couple of months ago has been souveniered and used as a sign on a gate inbetween 2 of the commission flats near where the original piece was installed…couldn’t ask for a better outcome. A little battered and [...]

Why…I don’t know but Bright Op Shop (where we holidayed over Easter) bucked the Easter trend and put on a hilarious Harry Potter window for all the holiday punters.  The note on the window clearly stated that nothing was for sale…bum! Harry himself…I don’t recall such heavy eyebrows Ron…all dolled up to catch Harry’s attention [...]

This photo has been up on the wall of my studio for quite some time…taken back in the analogue days.  So I snapped a shot of it with my iphone and voila not too bad!  It is taken on the roof of the Nicholas Building duing the installation of the 14 rings for the City [...]

Brooch back…bike nerd reckons it looks like a John Davies fish or a caravan. Final brooch in progress…this one’s looking amoebic. These 3 just need a final clean a dip in the lime sulphur for oxidising and then to set the plastic compositions. Done! A sneak preview of the back of one of the completed [...]

This one is for Maria G and annadee…another Heidelberg West gem.

I am currently working on a series of 5 brooches for an exhibition titled 5 Miles from the Sea previously posted about here.  My work is titled Public Space-Plastic Marks. Crap photos but late nights in the studio documenting with the iphone-far from ideal conditions.  I am getting some professional photos done tomorrow so will [...]

A particularly active member of the Contemporary Jewellery scene in Melbourne – Natalia Milosz-Piekarska has initiated an online auction of donated contemporary jewellery to raise money for the Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund. It was inspired by recent events in Australia, New Zealand and Japan and the obvious pressure that the Red Cross [...]

If you have ever questioned the amount of time you have spent on one project then please chk this out.  I was trained by a couple of unforgiving metalsmiths but this goes beyond anything I have ever witnessed.  It is a beautifully edited mini doco featuring the incredible hand crafting of a Tsuba-a round or [...]

Recently I was involved in an exhibition in New Zealand, ‘Touch, Pause, Engage’, original post here for project details. I promised images of the final piece once the exhibition was up and running it is actually now closed. Below are some of the installation and the final piece titled ‘Soft Rubbish’. It was installed in West Heidelberg, postcode 3081. [...]