Kirsten Haydon

New Zealand-Australia, b.1973

Kirsten Haydon is a New Zealand-born, Melbourne based artist. She completed a PHD in 2009 in Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT and has gone on to become an Early Career Academic Fellow and Lecturer at RMIT’s School of Art.  Specialising in enamelling processes for constructed jewellery, her practice is inspired by a 2004 trip to Antarctica as the first jeweller to take part in the Artists to Antarctica Programme.  In her 2012 publication, Micromosaic: Antarctic Landscapes, she explores this experience further through research of the continent’s history and the experience of past visitors through the notion of the souvenir.



Ice tins brooch, 2011, copper, enamel, glass, silver, steel

Artists

More work by Kirsten Haydon

Ice fuel brooch by Kirsten Haydon Ice fuel brooch , 2012, copper, enamel, glass, silver ,
Ice depot brooch by Kirsten Haydon Ice depot brooch , 2011, copper, enamel, photo transfer, glass, silver ,
Earrings by Kirsten Haydon Earrings , 2011, copper, enamel, glass, silver ,
Earrings by Kirsten Haydon Earrings , 2011, copper, enamel, glass, silver ,
Earrings by Kirsten Haydon Earrings , 2008, copper, enamel, glass, silver ,
Ice movement necklace by Kirsten Haydon Ice movement necklace , 2011, copper, enamel, glass, silver ,
Meccano earrings by Kirsten Haydon Meccano earrings , 2006, blackened silver, paint ,
Unit necklace by Kirsten Haydon Unit necklace , 2006, sterling silver ,
Diamond Dust bracelet by Kirsten Haydon Diamond Dust bracelet , 2011, copper, enamel, glass, silver ,

Exhibitions

Ice Structure

Kirsten Haydon,

May 24 to June 18, 2011

Since 2004, when she travelled to Antarctica as an Antarctic Arts Fellow (NZ), Kirsten Haydon has explored the icy continent through jewellery and object making.