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Basta. Tutto passa. Malocchio. If you grew up in an Italian household you have heard all three, usually at volume, usually from someone who was not asking your opinion. Anna Marrone hand engraves t...
When Tessa Blazey creates jewellery, she considers weight, or how something holds itself up — questions she was asking during her studies of sculpture and interiors, years before she ever picked up...
The jewellery pieces worn on your wedding day tend to outlast almost everything else from it. Book a Bridal Styling session with us to discover jewels that stay with you well beyond the day itself.
Garlands, ribbons, scrollwork and extraordinary sapphires. William Llewellyn Griffiths’ latest rings draw on an ornamental language shaped by history, interpreted entirely in his own way.
A room above the city, three jewellery benches, an antique watchmaker’s lathe and a wall of moulds collected over nearly fifty years. We spent a morning with William Llewellyn Griffiths, discoverin...
For contemporary Australian artist Heather B. Swann, the leap from monumental bronze to the microscopic surface of a pearl was never really a leap at all — it was a continuation. Her long fascinati...
Betra Fraval's paintings have long been shaped by the experience of arriving somewhere unfamiliar — the shifting light of Southern France, the density of the Peruvian Amazon, the stark quiet of a F...
A pearl is never just a pearl. Formed slowly through patience and pressure, it becomes a natural metaphor for love — an idea Joshua Searle explores in his works for our latest exhibition, Tidal Wave.
Pia Murphy's work has long moved between printmaking, ceramics and oil painting, each medium bringing its own unpredictable chemistry and its own capacity for surprise. In this conversation with Pi...
Lucas Grogan's practice has always worked like an unguarded diary. In this conversation with Pieces of Eight, we explore how Lucas's creation for the Tidal Wave exhibition finds an unexpected new c...
Ahead of the opening of Tidal Wave, our latest exhibition, we spent a morning in the Melbourne studio of contemporary Australian painter, Miranda Skoczek. Surrounded by works in progress, jars of ...
Maddie inherited a marquise Australian opal she never wore. Over ten weeks, jeweller Shimara Carlow reset it into a ring for a twenty-first birthday — and for the decades after it.
Invited to paint on a baroque pearl for Tidal Wave, Troy Emery took the brief somewhere entirely unexpected. Melanie Katsalidis visited his Brunswick studio to see what she had started.
A client wrote to tell us her partner had proposed in New Zealand. The stunning sapphire ring he chose came from Tessa Blazey's Kindred Spirits exhibition.
Tidal Wave opened to a full house at Russell Place, unveiling nine remarkable responses to the painted pearl. Guests joined the artists for an evening of jewellery, art, Coastal Gin & Tonics, f...
For an artist known for large-scale public works where colour unfolds across architecture and civic space, the shift to jewellery might seem like a leap — but as Emma Coulter explains, it's less a ...
For Tidal Wave, Melbourne artist Kate Tucker was invited by gallery director, Melanie Katsalidis, to work at an unusually intimate scale. Known for a practice that pushes painting beyond the flat ...
"Caves of wonderment" — Adèle Winteridge on the Cullet vessels. We've just released three limited-edition prints of the glass vessels made with Foolscap Studio, and blown by Hamish Donaldson for Op...
A Trip Worth Making. On seeing a piece in person — and why we'll cover your flights. There are things a photograph can’t tell you about a piece of jewellery. The weight of a ring on your hand. Th...
On Friday 24th July, Pieces of Eight opened its doors as part of Open House Melbourne 2026 to launch a collaboration with Foolscap Studio and glass artist Hamish Donaldson — a collection called Cu...
Nothing Wasted: The Making of the Cullet Vessels At Hamish Donaldson's Red Hill studio, the furnace never really cools. Pieces of Eight visited the Mornington Peninsula hot shop to watch one of eig...
There is not much longer to wait for our next highly anticipated group exhibition, Tidal Wave, which opens to the public on August 13, 2026. Featuring nine Australian artists matched with nine pair...
Join us for the upcoming Open House Melbourne program. Responding to this year's theme, Generous City, the gallery will become the setting for a special installation celebrating collaboration, craf...
