Anna Hiscock, New Zealand born, originally trained in fashion, which, she says informs her work, and strengthens her understanding of the intimate relationship between the jewel and the body. Her fashion background also originally encouraged her to mix precious materials with silk and snakeskin, juxtaposing hard and soft, the eternal and the ephemeral, and injecting fluidity and texture into her jewels, giving them a certain mystery. But she also brings to her work a huge breadth of experience, from her travels, her upbringing in New Zealand and her adopted urban environments, her expertise in film wardrobe, in couture fashion production, from which she learnt about the use of ravishing, fine materials and perfection of finish. As polished as her work is, there is something tribal and urban-ethnic about the pieces, the use of powerful, stylised archetypal forms - the shining sun disc, the sleek, slim openwork oval, the pearl encrusted temple roof - and a raw energy that takes jewellery back to its roots as magical, spiritually-imbued object. Anna describes her jewellery as “cool, urban statements and beautiful asides for women who are able to express themselves beyond the prescribed.” Anna works closely with her husband, David Hiscock, versatile artist, sculptor and RCA trained photographer, the leader of a generation of art-photographers aiming to integrate photography into different media and fields of design, a movement that was enormously influential in the late 80s and 90s. From a prodigious outpouring of work, his meditative interpretation of the British Museum’s Rosetta Stone, and his shimmering series of the Barcelona Olympics, with its reflection on the losers, were both barrier-breaking in their mix of state of the art craft with emotional depth. Married for 13 years, Anna and David spend all day every day together, joining forces to create their innovative “suites” of jewellery, accessories, clothes and objects. There is a shimmering integrity to this creative collaboration, in their intense focus on quality and hand craftsmanship.