Leanne Ryan
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Leanne has been making jewellery for four years and derives pleasure from the act of creating. Her jewellery is driven by the spontaneity and serendipity of the design process. In line with this, Leanne employs traditional materials and also incorporates those that pique her interest, such as trade beads and acrylic, often shaping the work around said material. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in Western Australia.
Leanne’s designs begin when something catches her eye or stokes her imagination. In her most recent body of work Leanne employs silver and acrylic, as well as vulcanite (a material sometimes used in trade beads), which is re-contextualised and transformed from an often pragmatic and utilitarian material, defined and bound by the world of trade, into whimsical and playful pieces of contemporary jewellery. Each of the pieces takes its title from a different language, but all words express the same idea: freedom, or liberty.
