Leah Ferguson is a jeweller and curator based in Melbourne, living and working on Bunurong and Wurundjeri Country. Her practice is shaped by an interdisciplinary background, having studied literature, media, German language, curating and jewellery making which together inform a nuanced approach to her work. Leah holds a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne, with experience in exhibition-making about art in climate crisis, exhibitions on contemporary works on paper and contemporary jewellery. Leah is particularly drawn to personal and “messy” forms of making that move fluidly between explorations of locality, material, the personal and political. She is interested jewellery, writing and art making as occupying a sociological position of ambiguity. Injectable with multiplicities and incommensurate meaning, for each person an immersive, layered, and open-ended engagement. With the idea of ‘art to wear’ embedding this further as a personal emblem, personal item, and a bonded material.

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