Charlotte E Padgham Contemporary Art & Jewellery

Unconventional sustainable contemporary jewellery and artwork - incorporating traditional and experimental techniques in metalwork, painting, printmaking and alternative photographic processes fusing precious and waste materials.

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London
United Kingdom
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Charlotte Padgham
m: 07930208509
e: [email protected]
https://www.9-lives.org.uk

About

The alchemy of waste.

Charlotte E Padgham is an experimental and sustainable artist and jewellery designer-maker exploring themes of transition, manipulation, ephemerality and 'imperfection' using found objects, waste material and organic matter fused with precious and semi-precious elements. She has a fascination with texture, degradation and decay and in the traces and residues left behind often using her body as tool and material to explore the transference, intervention and preservation of the self.

Circular economy principles are an integral part of Charlotte E Padgham's process. With a focus and commitment to ethical and sustainable making, all materials and waste are reused, reworked and recycled within and across her art and jewellery practices through innovative experimental and alternative processes combined with traditional techniques.

Charlotte is actively pursuing cross-industry collaborations to reuse a number of different 'waste' materials produced - such as damaged gemstones from the jewellery industry, built-up resin-paint residue from boat yards and material off-cuts from theatres and local manufacturers.

In early 2020 Charlotte researched and developed systems for reclaiming and reusing waste silver from used photographic fixer to plate and form elements of her jewellery and artworks. She has also initiated several methods of reusing waste non-recyclable resin-coated photographic paper as a raw material for creating wearable photographs and jewellery including 'gemstones', sculptural objects and intaglio prints. This element of her work has been included in two publications by The London Alternative Photography Collective and the Sustainable Darkroom.

All of Charlotte's precious metal jewellery is Hallmarked at the London Assay Office and she is a registered Fairmined brand.

Charlotte is a member of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery, The Society of British Jewellers, The Guild of Jewellery Designers, and Precious Collective. She is also included in the Crafts Council Directory and was amongst the first 50 jewellers to have taken the Fair Luxury Pledge in 2021

Mini craft gallery

Sterling silver ring – from my signature collection featuring the textures of my skin imprinted during the forming of each piece
SKINS 100% recycled Sterling silver ring – from my signature collection featuring the textures of my skin imprinted during the forming of each piece
Punk Tiara – forged recycled silver ear piece commissioned by Siobhán McSweeney for the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards
Punk Tiara – forged recycled silver ear piece commissioned by Siobhán McSweeney for the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards
DARK MATTER – waste photographic paper ring plated with silver reclaimed from spent photographic fixer
Victorian Hairwork (Gimpwork) ring made from my hair
Boatite ring – hand carved from waste boat paint run-off
SKINS 100% recycled Sterling silver necklace
Victorian Hairwork (gimpwork) ring made using my hair
SKINS 100% recycled Sterling silver cuff bracelet