It can be said that Conroy creates organic contemporary jewellery with many of her pieces that are organic representational, reflecting images and motifs found in nature. She also
incorporates actual natural organic materials into her works. Many of Conroy’s
wearable jewellery pieces consist of sketches of birds and flowers that are
etched onto metal discs, stones, enamelled copper discs and mother of pearl
shell which she sets into frames of blackened silver to form necklaces,
earrings and rings (Lark & Key, n.d.) . She also creates contemporary
pieces that are made for exhibitions and galleries. These artistic jewellery
pieces consist of fragments of bone, eggshell, dried foliage, dead bodies of
birds and small mammals and pierced elements in metal (Boston Voyager, 2018). She
combines these elements with blackened silver and brightly coloured gemstone
beads, discs of etched enamel, metal, shell and flat shards of gemstone slices
(Boston Voyager, 2018). Conroy sources all of her design elements from her childhood
memories and finds it important that the motifs of nature used in her designs
have a personal significance to her (Conroy, n.d.).
Pictured below is an image of one of
Conroy’s works where she has laser-etched hand-drawn images onto faces of
mother of pearl.
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| Figure 2 Conroy, K., Neckpiece. [ONLINE]2 |
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