Zoë Veness
STILL POINT

Still Point is a selection of jewellery by Zoë Veness that reflects her interest in evocations of time through repetitive making processes and intricately detailed forms. Central to her work is a folding method with thin strips of paper that are interwoven onto steel cable and looped into neckpieces or combined with silver to create brooch designs. Her experimental making process incrementally evolves with slight adjustments to folding systems and colour combinations, each work gradually testing new ideas along reflective paths of enquiry. The notion of a still point alludes to the sense of coherence she seeks in her jewellery through harmonious synergies between the rhythmical patterns of the paper folds, the interplay of colour sequences, and the perpetual movement of the looped forms.

Zoë Veness is a contemporary jewellery artist and Senior Lecturer at UNSW Art & Design. Her work has been selected for numerous international and national exhibitions including the ITAMI International Jewellery Exhibition in Japan and Made Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery organised by the Australian Design Centre which toured nationally from 2020-2023. Solo exhibitions include The Stream of Time at Woollahra Gallery, New Terrain in an Old World at Craft + Design Canberra, and The Infinite Fold at JamFactory: Contemporary Craft and Design. She has received several grants and awards including an Australian Postgraduate Award for PhD research and the winning prize for the Contemporary Wearables Biennale Jewellery Award in 2023. She was artist-in-residence at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland in 2006 and at Bundanon on Dharawal-Dhurga Country in 2010. Her work is held in collections at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, National Gallery of Australia, and Art Gallery of Australia.