School of Design Silversmithing & Jewellery
Holly Brigitte MacDonald

This collection emerges from an ongoing dialogue with the city. As I study and work on the same streets I grew up on, I am aware of how memory settles into surfaces, how a feeling about a place can shift over time and how what’s gone still leaves a mark. This collection responds to those feelings, exploring containment and emergence. Motifs like fencing, scaffolding, and brickwork become visual symbols of boundary—sometimes oppressive, sometimes protective. They speak to a tension:the sense of being stuck, yet on the verge of breaking free.
The materials – silver, enamel, and glass were chosen for their capacity to hold contrast and texture.
This is not about nostalgia. It’s about transformation.
It reflects a city, a self, and a practice in flux.
What remains is not ruin, but a trace:
a vestige of what was, and a foundation for what comes next.
