The Reed Parure
Born
in Chiswick, London, Pond is now based in rural Staffordshire.
Alongside her practice
as a studio jeweller, she is employed as a full-time lecturer at The
School of Jewellery. She is a member of Contemporary Applied Arts and
the Association for Contemporary Jewellery.
“I
come from a family of ‘Ponds’ who appear to have a genetic necessity for
hoarding; digging up metal detector finds was the foundation of a
passion for objects which others might not quite appreciate. This
fashioned the beginnings of a lifetime of habitual collecting.
Utilising
this drive to accumulate the unconventional and unwanted, coupled with
an aesthetic appreciation of the details of decomposition and change, I
choose to incorporate items potentially paradoxical within jewellery, to
create beautiful and on occasion, confusing objects.
Employing symbolic references of form, material and technique, I dabble in the
potential for wearable items to become vehicles for communication; whether through sense, nostalgia, or knowledge.”