Landlines 'Sunset' Earrings - Melinda Young

Made in the NSW South Coast studio of visual artist and craftsperson Melinda Young, the Landlines series celebrates the subtle graduations of colour found in the surrounding landscape. Hand-painted recycled marine ply forms the foundation of these earrings, accented with tiny coral beads and finished with sterling silver ear wires.

Length 63mm, width 37mm
Recycled marine ply, coral, sterling silver, paint

Melinda Young lives and works on Dharawal Country on the south coast of NSW. Her research-based practice spans jewellery, textiles, and interactive public art projects, exploring place and materiality. She combines colour and texture in combination with found and reclaimed materials objects, natural materials, precious metals and stones to produce bold, eye-catching jewellery. The tiny details of her environs, both natural and built/designed, provides a constant creative stimulus for her creative practice.  Melinda’s award-winning work has been exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally since 1997, and has been included in numerous publications and is held in public collections.