“My work explores what we consider precious and how we engage with the resources around us. Using found objects and reclaimed materials, I create pieces that tell the quiet stories of things often overlooked – materials with a past, carrying traces of time and use.
I draw inspiration from our cultural and industrial heritage, in all its complexity. I’m particularly captivated by decaying buildings and factories and I often find components for my work in such places: in abandoned buildings, scrapyards, on beaches or sidewalks, and even in my own home.
Through my work, I hope to shift perceptions of value, celebrating the unnoticed and the discarded. It is both a tribute and a call to reconsider the richness of what already exists.”
— Sophie Rose
Recycled.
All my jewellery pieces are made of either natural or reused materials, recycled precious metals and - yes! - recut gemstones. I buy my silver and gold from the Nordic Urban Mining project which extracts and refines precious metals from our (mostly electronic) waste, and I purchase reused/recut gemstones from a German gemstones cutting company.
Handmade.
I design and handcraft every piece of jewellery in my studio located on the countryside in the beautiful surroundings of Middle Jutland, Denmark. Simple geometric forms are turned into sculptural jewellery pieces crafted in recycled precious metals with strong contrasts in surfaces, forms and colours, achieved by oxidising, gilding or enamelling the metal and setting gemstones in untraditional settings.
Art.
In my artistic practice I want to give new life to found objects and tell their stories, by creating pieces of art jewellery combining these seemingly valueless objects with other (precious and non-precious) materials. By this I want to pay homage to ordinary materials and give the possibility to discover and perceive the beauty hidden inside “the scrap”.
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