Jewellery, photos an eyeopener

DIGITAL photography and exquisite jewellery feature in the City of Casey Civic Centre Art Space until Thursday, 27 April.
The exhibition presents artwork of photographic artist Caroline Holmes, and jewellery by Kay Sawatzky and the contemporary jewellery art group Bejewelled.
Caroline Holmes presents Soie Vierge, meaning raw silk in French, and looks at the way women indulge in fabric.
Her series of photographs have been printed on German watercolour paper using the latest in digital technology.
These highquality prints blur the once blackandwhite lines of painting and photography. Alongside Soie Vierge is an exhibition of jewellery, Precious Reflections by contemporary jewellery artists Bejewelled and independent jeweller/goldsmith Kay Sawatzky.
Precious Reflections combines Ms Sawatzky’s specialised skill of creating replicas of old, timeless jewellery with her flair to create modern pieces. With more than 20 years of dedication to her craft, Ms Sawatzky has won many awards and is a member of the Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia.
This allows her to stamp her pieces with the guild mark to identify them as antiques of the future.
The exhibition features a diverse array of her jewellery, including rings, brooches and bracelets using ninecarat, 14carat, 18carat gold and many coloured gemstones.
Precious Reflections also features the work of Bejewelled, a group of seven contemporary jewellery artists — Elaine Jordan, Eva Scheer, Heather Manley, Helen Cameron, Lyn Forrest, Marianna Hinch and Tereza Matas, who work out of the Burrinja Gallery in the Dandenong Ranges.
For Precious Reflections, Bejewelled has created a diverse range of wearable art in metal and semiprecious stones and gemstones that explore water and reflections.
Their work includes very delicate pendants, rings and earrings, to distinctive neckpieces and bracelets.