Colette Bishop explores the relationship between the natural world and the man-made. She engages with notions of preciousness by re-contextualising everyday objects or artefacts.

She questions people’s perceptions of value by playing with aesthetic qualities and contrasts within her pieces through the visual and the three-dimensional.

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Colette Bishop explores the relationship between the natural world and the man-made. She engages with notions of preciousness by re-contextualising everyday objects or artefacts.

She questions people’s perceptions of value by playing with aesthetic qualities and contrasts within her pieces through the visual and the three-dimensional.

Colette’s textile pieces explore notions of beauty, reality and illusion by combining various images from flowers to litter to form visual hybrids; inspiration comes from a particular interest in trompe l’oeil and cultural influences such as consumerism and subcultures.

Her jewellery collection investigates the relationship between traditional jewellery values of preciousness by combining unfinished stones and rocks with precious metals, providing a contrast between textures, forms and the surface of worked silver, highlighting the beauty of the everyday and non-precious