Rose Pickernell

Rose Pickernell is a Wellington-based practising jeweller. In 2021 Rose moved South to complete a degree specialising in contemporary jewellery at the Otago Polytechnic. Her work walks the line between the brutality of material and beauty of function. Rose comes from a lineage of skilled makers and being raised by a blacksmith has heavily influenced her choice of materials and the force with which she approaches the making of these works. In this exhibition she explores the joys of decontextualising traditionally masculine trade and materials. Rose has exhibited at The Den in Christchurch with a Group exhibition Reflections and Faucets 2021. In 2023 her work featured on the front cover of the 6th issue of Island Magazine.