Rosina Payan Pecorelli

I am inspired by the lines and forms I see in elements of architecture, aiming to distil what I absorb from my surroundings. My practice is informed by exploring the shapes that come from the places I am inspired by, I belong to, and spend time in. I enjoy the process of finding repeating forms in the urban landscape and interpreting these through both worn and object pieces.
I am influenced by modern and brutalist architecture especially a buildings’ gradual absorption into nature once abandoned, the neatness of these structural forms contrasted with their weather-y decay encapsulates my own feelings of change, and the finding of beauty in this process.
I like the idea of exploring materials that play with the traditional ideas of jewellery. I find rusty steel, torn card or a chunk of concrete equally as exciting as precious metals such as silver, allowing scope to explore different surfaces and colours. In my recent Graduate collection, ‘Monoliths’ I have used steel, bio resin and gilding metal as well as silver in varying patinas. The combination of precious and non-precious materials is an exciting way for me to keep avenues open and enjoy this creative practice as a form of play and invention, with the aim to create both worn pieces and objects which conjure visions of brutalist decay and architectural forms