Shinfield Solastalgia Gumnut Nails Brooch - Regina Krawets

From the studio of Sydney jeweller Regina Krawets comes the 'Shinfield Solastalgia' series, including the 'Gumnut Nails' brooch. In this beautiful brooch, sterling silver forms carpenters nails, one of which morphs into cast gumnuts, and a faceted deep pink tourmaline hangs from the base.

Of the series, Regina says "The concept of ‘solastalgia’, first coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2005, describes a feeling akin to homesickness when your home environment is changing in ways you find distressing and is often associated with the sense of helplessness and sadness experienced over environmental damage due to climate change.

"I have been fortunate to call home a place surrounded by towering gums, ponds, native flora and fauna, yet with all the amenity and convenience that living in the city provides. The air is fresh, I can hear the sounds of nature, wind in the trees and whenever I look up, from every vantage I can see foliage that tracks the seasons. But soon my little pocket of paradise will change and I feel the weight of a loss I haven’t yet experienced.

"Shinfield Solastalgia explores my personal sense of disquiet around the imminent changes to the natural environment around me due to the construction of a multi-residential development."

Sterling silver, fine silver, tourmaline.

Stainless steel brooch pin.

56mm wide x 70mm long.

Regina Krawets is an award-winning artist based in Sydney, NSW, who creates contemporary jewellery which merges her love of architectural forms, colour and textiles. Building on an appreciation of repetition in design, and the belief in the maxim that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts that first attracted her to beadwork, Regina continues to draw inspiration from her urban environment, exploring notions of its intersection with nature and its inhabitants, identity and belonging, as well as issues of sustainability.