Kate Gardiner has crafted "Rangelands Claypan 2" Brooch in textured oxidised sterling silver with 7 x RBC diamonds scattered set over the surface.
Dimensions: 31mm x 22mm
This sterling silver brooch studded with seven diamonds is a distillation of sunshine sparkling off smoky quartz crystals scattered across a claypan. A feature of the rangelands in western NSW, claypans are small patches of bare, flat ground typically covered in stones. Artist Kate Gardiner has created this blackened, lightly textured brooch as a love token to her favourite pastime of looking for crystals that can be found among the stones across claypans, and the reverse side of the brooch is engraved with the geohash (r4rsvu8k61tkc) for Cobar where Kate spent her formative years. When pinned near the heard of the wearer, this brooch becomes a sparkling representation of Kate’s love for the people practicing Regenerative
Agriculture, such as holistic land management, towards repairing biodiversity in the
rangelands both in Australia and around the world.
