ANNA VLAHOS
jewellery shows me that everyone is the same. and that even throughout history we have been the same. beads have been found that are 100000 years old. 100000 years ago she found something she thought was beautiful, or a lucky charm, or sentimental and she wanted to wear it. just the same as I did yesterday. it's nice I think.
I started making jewellery in australia. then I moved to greece and started making jewellery in greece. then greek things started to get into my jewellery making even though I was making in my australian way. and that seems to be where things are at right now.
                                                                                                                                                                      Ancient artisans broke down the natural world around them into patterns and motifs. The jewellery and art objects they created come out of the ground as though they grow down there. Living in Athens, these become my replacement for the natural world I grew up with in Australia.


I take these simple pattern elements, borrowing from vase and amphora and rhyton, and replicate them infinitely.
Using these as pattern puzzle pieces, I can build a nature of my own, drawing on the flora of my memories and my home, but built using the visual language of those artisans.