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Email: jayne.wallace@ncl.ac.uk   View Website

Jayne is a digital artist with a background in contemporary jewellery and works within Patrick Olivier's team. She completed doctoral research in 2007 integrating digital technologies within jewellery objects at Sheffield Hallam University. She has been part of the research in Culture Lab since 2006, initially as an artist in residence and more recently as a research associate in Fine Art and Culture Lab, partly supported by a Norma Lipman fellowship in ceramic sculpture and a professional artist residency with the Institute of Ageing and Health.

The core of her work considers how jewellery can act to play a role within what we each consider personally meaningful for us in our lives, in an emotional context, and how the expression of fragments of this can be enriched through the integration of digital technologies. Developments already exist in wearable electronics and digital product design that have taken the body as a location, but in many cases such digital objects miss many of the subtleties and inimitable qualities associated with jewellery.

Jayne uses jewellery to explore the, often intimate, spaces created by interpersonal relationships and communications, and she sees the role of a contemporary jeweller as not to add an aesthetic to a technology, but to force much bigger questions and issues; questioning motivations, relevancies, and forms of digital objects and interaction.

Further information can be viewed at www.digitaljewellery.com

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