An exhibition of jewellery and small objects in collaboration with three Tasmanian jewellers exploring the history and architecture of one of Hobart's oldest hotels - Hadley's Orient Hotel.

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"Speculating on secrets hidden and musing on chapters of lives lived, I find that Hadley’s Orient Hotel presents as a character of its own. Its evolution is filled with highs and lows, from its convict foundations and bankruptcy to wealthy patrons and glittering galas.

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With every layer of the elaborate wallpaper that is peeled away another layer of history is unveiled; glimpses of the lives of those who built the hotel, those who ran it into near ruin and of those dreamt of what it could be.

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Infused into the walls are also the whispers from a fleeting procession of visitors from around the world; adventurers and explorers, politicians and philanderers, artists and royalty, and eventually an audacious shoe salesman who breathed life back into a faltering hotel and resurrected Hadley’s to its former glory.

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Chandeliers glint, reflecting and refracting light, and stories are scattered - fractured, glimpsed at briefly. My work explores these hints, glimmers and shadows using both traditional materials and found objects that are embued with time, place and stories themselves - piano keys, antique silver salvers, sandstone, crystal and glass."