Colette Hazelwood
Colette is a native Mancunian, she graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a 1st class BA Hons in 3D Design in 1999 and then started her contemporary jewellery business . Her shop which is housed in the Manchester Craft & Design Centre situated in the citys trendy Northern Quarter, here she designs and makes all her ranges and she also promotes other contemporary jewellery designers.Colettes work is unconventional, she still uses silver & gold, however her trademark Barb Wire Jewellery and Fuse Range is not for the faint hearted.
She urges you to throw away your diamond ring and join her outside the jewellery closet.
Contact Details:
Studio 4, Manchester Craft & Design Centre 17 Oak St. Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 5JD
T: 0161 839 0030
W: www.colettehazelwoodjewellery.co.uk
& www.ukcontemporaryjewellery.co.uk
E-mail:info@colettehazelwoodjewellery.co.uk
With several high profile shows including Chelsea Crafts Fair, Designfront04 and ClothesShow Live under her belt Colette continues to bring “A little experimentation to the public”
She aims to create items of body adornment that raise questions about what we normally perceive as ‘jewellery’. Her chosen materials are quite often non-precious however; they are precious objects because of the time that goes into producing them.
Colette
has exhibited her work internationally Brussels, Sydney, Singapore and New
York are among the list.
“Art You Wear” Manchester Evening News
“Colette Hazelwood’s inspiring jewellery is both eerily beautiful and eye catching. Fierce spikes are combined with intricate fibres to create necklaces for people who like a little risk mixed with their jewellery” Skin Two
