upcoming exhibitions
Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial. 7 – 15 September 2019
Group Exhibition of Contemporary Jewellery, Beaver Galleries. 20 June – 7 July 2019
recent exhibitions
Masters: Art of the Precious Metal Object, National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria. 14 September 2018 – 29 January 2019
To have and to hold, the Daalder collection of contemporary jewellery, Art Gallery of South Australia. 1 August 2018 – 17 March 2019
Natural Language, with Clare Belfrage & Chris de Rosa, Collect, JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design. 17 February – 19 March 2017
International Art Jewelry Sculpture 2016, Gallery MOA, South Korea. November 19 – December 31 2016
Nature, San W Gallery China and Guildhouse. May 2016
slowsound timestrange Courtesy of the Artist, The Strand, Sydney Courtesy of the Artist. 05 May – 28 May 2016
Calendar Girls Gray Street Workshop, Gray Street Gallery, Adelaide Gray Street Workshop. 03 March – 10 April 2016
Domain of the Material International Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition, Create Space, Tokyo, Japan
Create Space Tokyo
26 September – 05 October 2014
Be Consumed: Creative Collaborations from the Barossa
JamFactory at Seppeltsfield
19 July – 17 September 2014
Jewelry From Down Under
Taboo Gallery
August 29 – 10 October 2014
Well Made
Light Square Gallery – Adelaide College of the Arts – curated by Guildhouse
21 February – 14 March 2014
Bodywork: Australian jewellery 1972 – 2012
National Gallery of Australia – Travelling Exhibition
Touring 2013 – 2015
Designing Craft/Crafting Design: 40 years of JamFactory
JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design
18 April 2013 touring regionally until 2016
365 Cups: a cup a day
Worth Gallery, Fisher Jeffries, Adelaide
24 April – 17 May 2013
Schoonhoven Silver Award 2012
The Netherlands Zilvermuseum, Holland
Toured to Design Museum Gent, Belgium
24 November 2012 – 24 February 2013
Chiaro Oscura
JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design
27 October – 8 December 2012
National Contemporary Jewellery Award 2012
Griffith Regional Art Gallery
7 September 2012 – 27 January 2013
Schoonhoven Silver Award 2012
The Netherlands Zilvermuseum, Holland
5 April – 1 July 2012
TEFAF MAASTRICHT 2012
Maastricht 2012, represented by Adrian Sassoon
16 – 25 March 2012
selected articles
Slowsound, Timestrange
2016 catalogue for exhibition for Courtesy of the Artist gallery
2010 media release for the Abstract Nature exhibition at the Samstag Museum
2010 catalogue for the Abstract Nature exhibition at the Samstag Museum
Profile, Leslie Matthews: Contemporary Jeweller and Object Maker
2010 CraftSouth Bulletin Profile essay by Christine Nicholls
Shadows Hold Their Breath
2005 catalogue essay by Margot Osborne as part of the Signs Taken For Wonders Gray Street Workshop Celebrates 20 Years
2005 catalogue poster (front) and (back) for Shadows Hold Their Breath
The Gentle Wash of Memory
2004 Object Magazine article by Wendy Walker
Half Metal She Stayed
2002 catalogue essay by Christine Nicholls for The Gentle Wash of Memory exhibition
2002 exhibition catalogue for The Gentle Wash of Memory
Sharing the Self
2000 essay by Julie Ewington for Gray Street Workshop Signs taken for wonders anthology
An Omen In The Bone
1999 catalogue essay by Julie Ewington for An omen in the bone exhibition
Rivers of Silver
1999 essay by Stephanie Radok for object magazine