Imagined geographies

This set of brooches was made for an exhibition called The Language of Textiles at Hadleys Hotel in Hobart in 2021. They are made from textured steel, copper, and brass mesh with patina. The hotel is called Hadley's Orient Hotel- with the name harking back to an idea  prevalent in the late 1800's, of the mysterious east, an imagined landscape, a place that many people would never visit.