Margaret Park: Artist Statement & Bio

Whenever I make anything, I strive for a design that's clean, balanced and understated. I gravitate towards simple shapes and seek to combine them in a way that's unobtrusive. Often when exploring my surroundings, details of a humble object will become fixed in my mind and then my desire to translate that into a design will emerge.

Margaret Park is a contemporary jewellery maker based in Brisbane. She studied Fine Arts at Hornsby TAFE, majoring in photography and painting. Margaret won the Ron Hogan Memorial Painting Prize in 2005. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts, majoring in Photomedia at the University of Sydney.

After a brief hiatus, Margaret took a silver jewellery workshop at a community art centre and became hooked. Deciding a few hours a week wasn't enough, Margaret went on to complete studies in Jewellery and Object Design and Jewellery Manufacturing at Design Centre Enmore where she was awarded the JMGA Graduate Award for Future Talent and The Tank Show Award. Margaret has participated in several group exhibitions in Australia and was a recipient of the Emerging Artist Craft Award in 2015.

Yukiko Nonaka: Artist Statement & Bio

Creating to me is a process of materialising my emotion.  I think I try to settle the emotional unease by creating physical objects. Even when I make it into a piece of art, that emotion won't settle but will still exist. I create art objects as temporary relief, and keep living my life.

Yukiko Nonaka is an artist based in Sydney. Born in Japan, she moved to Australia in 2008. 

She has graduated from Tsukuba University in Japan with a Bachelor and Masters in Japanese Painting.

Since moving to Australia, Nonaka has pursued an art practice in Jewellery. She recently graduated from the Design Centre in Enmore with a Certificate of Jewellery Manufacture and Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design.