Olivia Taylor is a designer and jewellery-maker based in Scotland. In 2019, after graduating from Glasgow School of Art, she created a brand of timeless, contemporary jewellery, translating her love for design and fine jewellery into a new form of statement pieces.
Inspired by stories of travel, nature and architecture, her work reinterprets hard concrete shapes into softs plays of light and rippling water. Using traditional techniques, she brings geometric shapes and striking line intersections together into organic, wearable pieces.
In her earlier work, vivid treatment of texture and colour contrasts with refined, linear structures; further exploring the harmony between nature and architecture.
Sustainability
Each piece of jewellery created by Olivia is handmade using ethically sourced precious metals and recycled silver. She is interested in the metamorphose of materials, the transient nature of formed metal; how an old silver brooch can be transformed into a molten ingot and further reshaped into a new pair of earrings.
Olivia is environmentally conscious in her design process and recycles every piece of offcut. She transforms them into new pieces, giving the piece new purpose, creating very little waste.
Exhibitions and Shows.
Past, Present, Future
04/2017
‘1900-0200’
SWG3, Glasgow
12/2017
‘Christmas Sale’
Glasgow School of Art
04/2018
‘Facets’
The Art School, Glasgow
12/2018
‘Christmas Sale’
Glasgow School of Art
06/2019
‘Degree Show’
Glasgow School of Art
06/2019
‘New Designers’
Islington Business Design Centre, London
01/2020
‘Getting Started’
The Goldsmiths Centre, London
03/2020
‘Rising Stars 2020’
New Ashgate Gallery, England
06/2020
‘New Designers’
Islington Business Design Centre, London
**Postponed to 2021