Abigail Brown

As a contemporary artist and silversmith, Abigail predominantly uses silver to make jewellery, sculptures, and installations that emphasise the primitive ritual of creation, material and time. The process of making draws on combinations of old world silversmithing techniques such as the use of fire, beating sheet metal and chasing soft lines. These sculptural interventions are inspired by cherished observations of nature, allowing an instinctive development of tensions between herself and the landscape. 

Silver and gold, alongside copper and tin, have a long mining history, and Abigail recognises that all crafts 'cost the earth'. Therefore, it is important to her what she does with them and having the privilege to work with them.

Abigail hopes to imbue a sense of magic and mysticism, drawing together elements of our ancient ritual past and connection to nature with the use of metals and minerals. She believes that in making silverware that will be much worn, much used and will bear the marks of time, objects that one day could be considered relics of an almost forgotten past.