CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND JEWELLERY

Sarah Walker-Holt

Sarah Walker-Holt completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Auckland University’s Manukau School of Visual Arts in 2010. Sarah is interested in the tactile qualities of wearable objects and admits a slight fetish of mechanisms. Through her work she questions the value bestowed in the materiality of everyday minimal and functional wooden objects. Sarah alters precious and non-precious timbers into something complex and decorative for the body. Deconstruction, construction, and engineering shape her approach. She is also intrigued by how things function, questioning how she can make them work within a jewelry context. To achieve this in some pieces Sarah integrates existing mechanisms like nuts and bolts, while also constructing her own mechanistic adaptations.

"Locating Disclosure… in an era where the period of existence for everyday objects is accelerated, their life span short and signs of endurance suggest that they have passed their use by date. I want my pieces to go up against this and to suggest that they are lost in some vortex of time, while suggesting a function that is unbeknown but obviously something to be touched or changed." Sarah Walker-Holt, 2011

From 2023

IN PLACE OF earrings 2023 Kauri, sterling silver, linen   $150
BIJOUB earrings 2023 Kauri, sterling silver, linen   $150
BIJOU charm pendant 2023 Kauri, sterling silver, linen   $130
IN PLACE OF charm pendant 2023 Kauri, sterling silver, linen   $130

From 2022

Pendant BUFFER 2022 - Kauri, silk, brass $450
Pendant NURTURE 2022 - Kauri, brass, goniatite button, oak laminate $400

Playing With Fire #1 earrings, kauri, stg silver   $150
Playing With Fire #2 earrings, kauri, stg silver   $160
Playing With Fire #3 earrings, kauri, stg silver   $130
Playing With Fire #4 earrings, kauri, stg silver, pearl   $190

Power Pole #1 earrings, power pole, mono print on flax paper, stg silver $130
Power Pole#2 earrings, power pole, mono print on flax paper, stg silver $130

From 2021

Down Under, Pendant, 2021, Recycled Kauri, Silver, Harakeke, Paper, 90 x 40 x 20mm   $275
Medieval, Pendant, 2021, Recycled Kauri, Silver, tī kōuka, 140 x 40 x 35mm   $350
Freefall, Pendant, 2021, Recycled Kauri, Silver, tī kōuka, 120 x 65 x 25mm   $300

From 2020

Ring, Bluespoke, silver, wood, woodblock print $230 Ring, Bluespoke – Oval, silver, pressed wood woodblock print $290 Ring Bluespoke - Rectangle, silver, pressed wood, woodblock print $290

From 2019

Brooch, 'Taking Back', 2019,found pallet wood, brass $500
Brooch, 'Grasp', found pallet wood, brass $350

Brooch, 'What Remains', H3 pine, found aluminium, silver, acrylic paint, silver $500
Brooch, 'Remains 3', H3 pine, found aluminium, silver $350

From 2018

Lacebark, Brooch, 2018. Hand-printed monoprint, presscraft tray, balsawood, silver $250 Lacebark, Earrings, 2018. Hand-printed monoprint, wood vessel, balsa wood, silver $130

Blue Foliage, Earrings, 2018. Wood vessel, balsa wood, drypoint etching, silver   $130
Black on Blue, Earrings, 2018. Hand-carved pallet wood, balsa wood, hand-printed monoprint, drypoint etching, silver   $150
Lacebark and Flax-pods, Earrings, 2018. Hand-carved pallet wood, balsa wood, handprinted monoprint, silver   $150
Flax-pods, Earrings, 2018. Hand-carved pallet wood, balsa wood, hand-printed monoprint, silver   $130

From 2017

Wallpaper Hinged, Brooch, 2017 Unknown wooden bowl, handprinted balsa wood, laminate, brass $450
Wallpaper Blue, Earrings Unknown wooden bowl, handprinted balsa wood, laminate, silver $160

The Kauri Plate[1], Brooch. Kauri, kauri copal, vinyl, brass $850

Wallpaper Earrings. Unknown wooden bowl, hand-printed balsa wood, laminate, silver $160
Positive-negative Earrings. Unknown wooden bowl, laminate, silver $160

From 2016

2 in 1 Brooch - Wood, laminate, acrylic, brass with brass spanner and extra hinge $850

Pin-a-phore (circle) Brooch - Unknown wood, laminate, brass   $250
Pin-a-phore (startek) Brooch - Unknown wood, laminate, brass   $220
Pin-a-phore (tick) Brooch - Unknown wood, laminate, brass   $220

From 2015

Untitled Pendants, 2015 $250 each
Kauri, laminate, brass, wax thread
40x45x20mm 40x45x10 40x45x30

From 2013

Measurements: Pendant, 2013, domestic implements, cotton, electrical cord, silver, print, paper, acrylic   $225
Neck-Row 1 Neck-piece, 2013, linen, domestic implements, silver, print, paper, acrylic   $225
For Pendant, 2013, domestic implements, cotton, silver, print, paper, acrylic   $225

From 2012

Tray #1 & #2 Button – hole brooches $355 each
wooden tray, brass, acrylic, paper, copper, brass nuts and bolts

From 2011

Neckpiece   $663
Various wooden implements, rubber garden twine, brass, silver, Cotton, paper, pencil, wood putty.
Pinch Me, pendant   $530
Various wooden utensils, brass, vintage thread, brass nut and bolt.
Rocket ( Button-hole ) Brooch   $220
Various wooden utensils, brass, brass nut and bolt