Susan Cohn: UNcommon Moments

Overview

Melbourne-based jewellery designer Susan Cohn has had an incredible career with her unique creations since the 1980s, and her exhibition at the Anna Schwartz Gallery is a testament to her ability to impress and inspire. UNcommon Moments focuses on three distinct moments determined by Cohn that we experience universally: Dying, Welcoming and Continuing.

Death and its inevitable yet unbearable connotations are represented in Toe Tag, a talisman not for death but for life. Whether you’re beginning life as a child or entering into a new community as a stranger, we all require inclusivity into the unknown. Styx is jewellery to say welcome, to a new home and a new life. Finally, Cohn’s work recognises that sometimes the hardest part of existence can be found in the everyday. Whether suffering through the mundane or the awful, Ganbatte jewellery lets us know that our struggles are seen, and that someone is thinking of us.