Completion 2020, full-time study

The study explores the subjective value of traditional Omani jewellery: a rich, and disappearing, tradition of heavy silverwork. Oral interviews with Bedouin women who make and wear traditional jewellery generated new insights into wearing, making and storing practices.

Through careful and respectful engagement, a co-creation group developed a series of shared experiments using traditional techniques with novel substances, including leather and edible materials. The process resulted in the production of new forms of contemporary jewellery that draw on Omani cultural traditions and techniques.