In this exhibition I am presenting small paintings and jewellery. The paintings were made on Awabakal Country at the beginning of the year and are studies of childhood mementos, favourite chocolates, common seashells, from the coast where I grew up. All these things are connected by being ubiquitous or familiar but also slightly uncanny. The jewellery is playful and direct. I have invented a technique to make drawings with fine wires and fill them in with glass I crush in different ways to create a palette of colour, sprinkled here and there with diamonds. Can these paintings and jewels offer companionship, provoke a smile, simply be beautiful? Generated from the child’s wonder within me and reflecting on childhood trinkets, the works relate in their subject matter and way of being made; meditative, intense observations of things I love, and in loving fear for.

Helen Britton, May 2026