Bronys Studio
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Instagram: https://instagram.com/bronysstudio Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bronysstudio 1. How long have you been creating your jewellery and homewares? The jewellery line I started probably 8 years ago with a heart shape brooch...Then added pendants, rings, badges and earrings. Wall hearts, crosses, birds, horses and Tiles were added later... 2. How did you get started? I began with making christmas decorations and at a market a lady suggested I make them into brooches... and that's where it all began.. 3. What is your greatest inspiration? It would have to be nature. Op shopping, Colour, texture... vintage. fabrics! design.. so many things inspire me! 4. What is the greatest challenge to owning and operating your own business? For me it is social media... alongside not really knowing what to do with the business side of things.. At the end of the day I like to make stuff... the knowing whether it is in and knowing when to change I find very hard... so like a dog with a bone I tend to drive myself and sometimes in no direction. 5. What is the best thing about owning your own creative business? That would be the creative freedom and my own hours... But as I also work part time I need to manage my creative time to make the most out of it. |
I was born and raised in a suburb of Brisbane. After high school I went travelling and always had odd jobs here and there to support myself. In 2001 I moved up to Cairns to do a compact year of Certificate 3 in Art at Tafe. It was there I realized I spent most of my spare time at home playing with clay, so in 2002 I attended Sculptural Ceramics at Gateway TAFE in Brisbane and spent many years exhibiting along the East coast of Australia interspersed with travelling and living in New Zealand.
In 2009 I landed in Byron Bay where I co-owned Heavenly Earth Art Gallery with my friend Kylee Dempsey. It was there I met my husband Sean and I moved down to Evans Head where I am currently working out of my studio/shed surrounded by the beautiful Bundjalung National Park. "Colour, textured patterns, doilies and clay are my thing. I totally love getting my hands in the mud - so to speak. I enjoy creating doily impressed patterns in my clay that I can then use coloured glazes to either rub in to and rub back to reveal the pattern, or coat in a solid colour to bring the pattern to life in a different way." "Using doilies fulfils my need to go Op shopping and 'find' something that I can reuse, reinvent and recycle. I grew up Op shopping with my mum and on some level when I 'Op shop' it connects me to a time in my life that was filled with cherished moments of wonder and excitement as I found used treasures that bought me joy as my mind created new ways of using them." Currently focusing on small pieces in the vain of Ceramic Jewellery and Homewares my pieces embody a classic bohemian feel. |
