Sarah Drew MSDC

Sarah loves travelling and being outside: it’s important to her that her jewellery reflects where it comes from; the components directly tether it to a physical place and consequently the wearer can be aware of that place connection every time it’s worn; an association with a holiday destination for example, or a favourite walk.

It’s a way of using jewellery as a grounding device rather than a status symbol; appreciating the beauty of the everyday. She aims to make things that are relevant and connected to normal people's lives; preciousness in the eye of the beholder.

She tries to be as sustainable as possible; using found and recycled materials means she's not supporting dangerous mines, unfair pay and child labour through her work. Her attitude is if she picked it up, dug it up, collected, polished and set it, she knows that nobody else has been exploited doing it.

Using the plastic and ghost-net dumped along local beaches means she's helping to get it out of the sea and away from marine animals who might eat it or be trapped by it. Her jewellery often gets a reaction and gets people talking about environmental issues, which is part of the intention, hopefully leading to people lobbying MPs and joining in local clean up strategies.

She believes that everyone should have the chance to enjoy the benefits of making, so offers affordable workshops at festivals, during the Terramater exhibitions, in her studio and at Stable Art, Bodmin. She also teaches longer recycled jewellery courses at West Dean College in Chichester

Sarah sells her collections through around 50 galleries (including @Work in London; Penwith Gallery in St Ives and New Brewery Arts in Cirencester) and shops around the UK (as well as stocking Plumo online), and in the USA and Hong Kong, as well as through her site www.sarahdrew.com and craft shows (when possible).

She set up Terra Mater Art group in 2019 with her abstract artist friend Karen McEndoo; along with other South West Women artists, they exhibit a few times a year at galleries such as Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Royal Cornwall Museum, Trebah Gardens and Penwith Gallery. The shows highlight environmental concerns with themes such as Erosion, Degrees, Tides, Germination, Alluvial and Regeneration.

• Recycled Jewellery practice, successfully trading for 24 years: founder of Terramater Art and Makers Cornwall; member of Society of Designer Craftsman, MAKE South West, Precious Collective and ACJ

• Shown several times at Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey; Tutton and Young, MADE; Desire Fair, Winchester and Top Drawer in London

• JEWELLERY EXHIBITIONS:

The Creative Circle, Court Barn Museum, June-Sept 24

London Craft Week at Petronilla Silver’s, May 24

REGENERATION: at Trebah Gardens, Falmouth May 24

ALLUVIAL: Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance March 24

BRUSSELS JEWELLERY WEEK: Particles at MAD Brussels March 24

TIDES: Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, Jan 2024

Perspectives: 8 Holland St Gallery, London with Petronilla Silver, Nov 2023

Around the Table exhibition at MAKE South West, Bovey Tracey Nov 2023

TIDES: Penwith Gallery, St Ives Sept 29th-Oct 29th 2023

Scrap Merchants Live: @Work gallery, London, Sept 2023

AUTOR art jewellery fair, Bucharest, May 2023

STRATA exhibition touring to Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro Jan 2023

Under the Tree exhibition at MAKE South West, Bovey Tracey Nov 2022

STRATA exhibition at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance Nov 2022

Artistar Jewels at Milano Jewelry week October 2022

Art residency at Bedruthan Hotel, Aug 2022

Tidepool summer exhibition at Aspex Portsmouth, July-Aug 2022

A Rubbish Exhibition at The Workhouse Chapel, July 2022

Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey June 2022

Degrees at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Feb/March 2022

Germination at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance Nov 2021

Rambling Summer exhibition at Craft Leeds July-Sept 2021

Seeing the Light Yew Tree Gallery, St Just Sept 2020

Earth Matters at West Dean College 2020

Tides at Circa 21, Penzance 2019

Erosion at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens 2019

Treasure Found Farnham Pottery 2017 (solo show)

Petronilla Silver Summer show 2017

• Written 3 jewellery-making books ‘Junk-box Jewellery’, ‘Wild Jewellery’ and ‘Hair Accessories’ and a children,s folk tale, The Woodsprite

• Written articles for ‘Making Jewellery’, ‘Wed’ magazine and ‘Cornwall Today’

• Stock over 50 galleries, websites and shops nationwide as well as USA and Hong Kong

• Teaches jewellery courses from her studio, West Dean College, Stable Art, Bodmin

• Worked with Crafts Council Make Your Future project, 2020 taking craft workshops into underfunded schools in Cornwall

• Set up School of Make in 2020 to offer free craft workshops to local young people in Cornwall

• Won 2018 best jewellery shop award in Muddy Stilettos Cornwall awards

• Founder member of Terramater Art (organising shows for 12 women artists) and Makers Cornwall (1000 members) and Narrative Fair committees responsible for marketing events in St Austell, Penryn, Penzance, Falmouth, Truro and online