Jewellery Objects Incorporating Photography of Antarctica

Research Background
This research is situated in contemporary jewellery and photography. This research was the first project where a jeweller explored and interpreted a personal experience of Antarctica to produce jewellery objects that used photography to depict the landscape. These objects reveal new interpretations of Antarctica and explore the use of photography on hard mediums such as vitreous enamel.

Research Significance
This research was presented at The Museum of Art and Design, which explores the value of making across all fields of contemporary creative practice. The Museum of Art and Design is the key North American museum that publishes on jewellery and researches and develops large international jewellery exhibitions. This temporary exhibition took over four years to formulate was accompanied by a 256 page book with essays and images exploring.

Research Contribution
The work was selected in the first international survey of contemporary and historic jewellery to explore the use of the photograph. In the Chapter on Remembered Spaces - Imagined Spaces from the Publication: "Landscape imagery lost its innocence in the twentieth century, with photography and other art forms devoting themselves to climate change, industrialization, and the pollution of the environment and providing a territory where a longing for the idyllic could be projected. throughout this transition the souvenir has remained inescapable and proven itself subversive by affirming how potent images are constructing autonomous systems of language in jewelry. In her works, Haydon follows a conceptual approach that resembles a systematic preservation of evidence". This large scale international survey exhibition and publication situate this research, which has produced representations using photography, enamel and jewellery to consider of Antarctica in new and innovative ways.
Note: American Spelling is used in jewelry