Jewellery
Bobbie Winger studied textile design and production at Sheridan College in Mississauga, Canada from 1981 to 1984. She graduated with a Diploma of Applied Arts in Textile Design, and worked in Toronto and Vancouver Canada selling hand printed textiles, garments and accessories.
Following a move to Australia in 1987 and loss of the large space necessary for textile printing, she concentrated on quilts and artwear garments. A growing interest in beading and smaller scale work lead to taking up jewellery making through classes at the Manly Warringah Evening College. From 1992 to 1995 she lived in Singapore, and continued to study jewellery making at the notorious Ed’s Jewellery School and the much more respectable LaSalle College.
After returning to Australia, she continued her jewellery work and took part in workshops on beading with Virginia Blakelock, Carol Perrenoud, and Nan C. Meinhardt, Japanese braiding with Roderick Owen, and glass bead making with Kathryn Wardill and Bernard Stoner. She joined Silver Plus in 1996 the North Shore Craft Group in 2001. She has recently become a member of the Pittwater Arts Trail.
She works mainly in silver, titanium and beads, producing one of a kind originals. Her most recent work explores riviting and cold joining of metals.
To email Bobbie click here: wingnut7@bigpond.com
Web Page: www.lunaticfringe7.com
