RJL DESIGNS

RJL Designs specialises in creating playful fashion jewellery

The designer, Rachael Murphy puts together her jewellery in a creative and fearless manner, playing with clashing colours and mixes of pattern. She is armed with knowledge of latest fashion trends and colours. Fabric is to Rachael. like paint to a painter. Cloth bares witness to our lives, it is a powerful unspoken signifier of character, gender, era and financial status. Rachael uses fragments of discarded and vintage clothes and fabric in her work to recall memories and experience.

Rachael saturates her work with labour. Every section of the work has been touched. Rachael is advanced in complex processes of bonding and fusing to make soft materials firm and hold their structure.

The work is delightfully risky as these playful textiles, being treated with a serious intent challenge the preconceptions about jewellery.