Jet McQuiston
About Jet McQuiston
Jet McQuiston is a jeweller from London creating meaningful, beautifully made, bold, modern-day heirlooms. Jet uses jewellery to eternalise important information such as historical narratives, fragile ecosystems, and love stories, exploring ways that jewellery can hold meaning allegorically via symbology or physically via technical processes.
Jet sees jewels as the perfect setting to store data: a tiny vessel that if made carefully can communicate for thousands of years. Jet’s pieces are made with fully traceable materials: Single Mine Origin gold and responsibly mined gemstones from Sri Lanka, one of her countries of origin, with a blend of specialist craft and technical processes.
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Jet is interested in jewellery’s role throughout history as a signifier, and the way these objects are able to outwardly convey and inwardly preserve meaning, history, and emotion. Jet’s designs commemorate important worlds, heralding a family’s history to celebrating extinct species.
Jet’s first collection, ‘Fallen Flora’, celebrates 70 iconic extinct plants and flowers from around the world. The collection references the climate crisis echoing a social preoccupation of the time and acting as contemporary mourning jewellery. Hidden amongst the floral motifs are the minute numbers ‘2, 3, 5 and 9’, representing ‘one minute to midnight’- a metaphor for the sixth mass extinction.
Information on commissions
All Goldsmiths’ Fair exhibitors welcome commissions. Don’t hesitate to contact this maker and start a conversation about commissioning a piece, unique to you. Examples of commissioning include transforming or combining old jewellery into new pieces, incorporating stones into new settings, or simply working together to create a bespoke piece in the style of this maker.
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