Brooke Barnett the creator behind ‘Relikt’ - Meaning an object that has survived from an earlier period of time (Scandinavian spelling of relict) She has adopted this name in hopes of creating future relics to be treasured many years from now.

She has always been creating visual art in one form or another, although 2014 marks the beginning of her passion for wearable art.

Over those years her art form began with up-cycled scraps of leather, hand stitched together to hold gathered animal bones and raw crystals in a style very reminiscent of ancient tribal jewellery.

In 2019 while working in the middle of central Australia she taught herself the process of electroforming, essentially plating raw copper over objects.

This paired wonderfully with her haul of opal that she was able to fossick from the Mintabie opal fields.

2021 she undertook a diploma of jewellery and object design which she has put on hold until 2023 and is currently using this down time to build her new form of adornment which is focusing on the Lost wax process, an ancient way of jewellery making which involves the sculpting of a wax model that is then cast in molten metal. Along side this method she is also called by the hammer and has a desire to get down and dirty sawing, hammering and cold joining pieces, this proves to be a fun challenge in between casting and she is always motivated to keep her work as ethical and sustainable as possible.

For those of you you are inclined to follow her further into a deep dive which explains her ethos, for your reading pleasure she has made public an essay that she wrote as part of her history studies, that delves into how we value our jewellery in the current day and age.

https://www.reliktjewellery.com/essay-amulets-talismans-evolved