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Collaboration

Orla Stanford and Martha Dommett are jewellery artists working with reclaimed natural materials. Orla and Martha met through a mutual friend, and what began as animated conversations admiring one another’s creations soon evolved into long hours spent making together. United by a shared love of collecting unusual found objects and transforming them into adornments, their collaboration grew naturally from the joy of reusing, reimagining and creating side by side.

Although both are trained in traditional silversmithing, they found themselves drawn less to convention and more to the instinctive and playful process of combining mismatched materials into unexpected jewellery pieces. Their work embraces imperfection, curiosity and the beauty of objects carrying traces of previous lives. Each piece is assembled intuitively, allowing materials to guide form and meaning.

Collecting from the Landscape

Having both grown up near the sea, much of their work incorporates fragments discovered along beaches and shorelines, objects shaped by salt, weather and time. Shells, rusted metals, smoothed plastics, stones and discarded remnants become part of wearable landscapes, carrying the memory of the environments from which they were gathered. Their jewellery exists in close relationship with the natural world, born from it, as though each piece could eventually return to the earth or sea and dissolve back into its surroundings.

Inspired by ancient jewellery and artefacts unearthed from burial sites, their creations often echo the textures, forms, and quiet mystery of adornments from ancient civilisations. Through reuse and transformation, Orla and Martha create pieces that feel both excavated and alive, suspended somewhere between artefact, ornament, and landscape.

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