Description
Inspired by a letter Sidney Nolan wrote to Sunday Reed from Horsham, while he was stationed in the Wimmera with the army, the Darling Heart ring answers a man far from home asking how a love might find some permanence.
"Darling my heart goes with you … you are not aware of how much you have given me."
Sidney Nolan to Sunday Reed, early 1940s
18ct yellow gold, bezel set with a 0.60ct pear rose cut champagne diamond VS2, clustered with two freeform rose cut diamonds. Warm in colour and shaped like a drop, for a letter sent from the wheat country by someone who admits he "trembles for her".
This ring was made as one of a pair with the Whole Spirit ring, which answers a letter Sunday wrote to John Reed. The two sit together in the Yours Truly exhibition and are sold separately.
Yours Truly is a group exhibition of rings by the artists of Pieces of Eight, each one made in response to a letter. Showing 12 to 28 November 2026.
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Darling Heart Ring
