If you're Australian (like I am) when you think of resin jewellery, you think of Dinosaur Designs. Not sure if they were first in Oz to start using resins to make frosty smooth sanded jewellery, but in recent collective memory it is the Dinos that introduced Australia to the jewellery and homewares potential of the medium.
I remember reading a critical reading of one of their pieces, marvelling at how the soft moulded original form, presumably made in clay or plasticine, had been captured and transformed into something rigid through the moulding process, that there was an interesting tension in the pieces, where the former squishiness is retained in the shape, yet when you touch it, you realise it's something else altogether
Loved by fash mags and art institutions alike, Dinosaurs is as far away from glitter and 100s and 1000s encased resin pendants as you can get. They give amazing surface. All have that amazing perfect smooth surface that still retains a few of the subtle lumps and bumps that indicate it was handformed and lately they have played a lot with almost painting with resin. The Sun and Moon and Fungi collections are good examples of this.
It was the work of the Dinos that had me inspired to take a stab at resin in the first place. I was very keen on it in the 90s and desperate to find out how to use resin, even contemplating going back to Uni to study jewellery to find out how. Lucky the internets is a great resource for info about it now and I missed adding to my already mammoth HECS bill!
They have a new collection out right now, called Bones. Check it out!
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