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Joanne Haywood graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2001, when she set up as a studio jeweller. Whilst she mainly designs and makes jewellery to be exhibited in galleries, she has also worked as a consultant and artist on a variety of commissions in the UK and internationally. In addition to being a studio jeweller, Joanne is also a lecturer in Art and Design and has taken part in a wide range of teaching projects and residencies.

"My work explores the essence of materials and the permanence of jewellery as physical objects and a transitional idea. Wire compositions are altered by charcoal and wood oxidisation.

Drawing on the contradiction and conflicts of opposites: Skeletal forms and fleshy volumes, natural and unnatural, the absence of colour and the addition of colour, light and shadow, within and beyond control."