Employing both traditional and modern materials, both naturally occurring and man made, Karla makes jewellery, art object and vessels. She is interested in the transformative ability of materials and draws inspiration from the extensive pre/history of jewellery, hollowware and personal object.
Questions arise as to their age and their origins. Familiar forms are engulfed and obscured, and in some cases, new structures erupt from an amorphous body, implying that therein lies an unearthed treasure.


Artist Bio
Karla Way is a Melbourne based jeweller. She began her jewellery studies at NMIT TAFE, 2001 and went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts (Hons- Gold and Silversmithing), RMIT University, 2008. Her work was short listed for the Fillipo Raphael Fresh! Award, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, 2007 and Design Now, Object Gallery, Sydney, 2009. Karla has participated in group exhibitions nationally and internationally including; Jewellery Topos, Gallerie Marzee, The Netherlands, 2009 and Bad Beasts Do Not Harm Me, Craft Victoria, 2010.