Remade-Reloved 2025

10 October – 19 November

In the third iteration of Remade-Reloved at Australian Design Centre, eighteen makers have repurposed discarded costume jewellery into new pieces. Each year, this ongoing project, curated by Bridget Kennedy, brings together a group of contemporary makers to explore the principles of the circular economy through the lens of jewellery and small object practice.

In each iteration, participants, from emerging makers to well-established jewellery artists, receive a bag of broken or unwanted costume jewellery generously donated by the community.

The premise is simple, but provides a creative challenge: to take these overlooked, mass-produced adornments and transform them into new contemporary work that provokes the consideration of material value. Using costume jewellery invites makers to experiment and adapt their usual techniques. Through smashing, melting, reconfiguring, layering, deconstructing, and reconstructing, they push the material and themselves into unfamiliar territory.

Remade-Reloved is not just an exhibition of contemporary jewellery and object; it’s an experiment in recontextualising the everyday. It invites both makers and audiences to consider how waste can be a resource, and how creative practice can shift our relationship to consumption and value. This is adornment with a conscience and a reminder that transformation often begins with what we already have, waiting to be seen afresh.

Artists: Linda Blair, Melissa Cameron, Anna Davern, Laura Deakin, Celia Dottore, Sian Edwards, Jenny Fahey, Lisa Furno, Szilvia Gyorgy, Pennie Jagiello, Bridget Kennedy, Erin Keys, Regina Krawets, Vicki Mason, Regina Middleton, Kaoru Rogers, Margarita Sampson, Mel Young

For more detail visit Remade-Reloved 2025.

Events
Remade-Reloved 2025: Floor Talk
When: Saturday 18 October, 11.30am - 12.30pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Tickets: Free, book here

In this special event curator Bridget Kennedy and a selection of the makers exhibiting in Remade-Reloved 2024 will talk about their work and creative practice.

Remade-Reloved: Costume Jewellery Rehash
When: Saturday 18 October, 1:30 – 3:30pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Tickets: $35, book here