About
Erin Lightfoot is a Brisbane-based designer and artist specialising in handmade porcelain jewellery. Since establishing her studio in 2011, she has made more than 14,000 pieces across a back catalogue of over 200 designs. Her distinctive practice brings the delicacy of porcelain into refined, wearable pieces for everyday dressing.
Her work is grounded in the belief that beautiful design can enhance daily life. She creates porcelain jewellery with the desirability of traditional pieces, but with a lighter, more relaxed, contemporary feel.
Erin holds a degree in fashion design, which continues to shape her approach to proportion, colour, wearability, and the way jewellery completes an outfit. Her wider design practice has also included print, object, and commissioned design work, giving her jewellery a strong foundation in colour, form, and surface.
Porcelain became Erin’s material of choice for its lightness, natural sheen, and quiet point of difference from metal and gemstones. Each piece is handmade in her Brisbane studio through a highly hands-on process, with only one small batch created each month.
Erin’s earliest training took place alongside her mother, a sculptor. She later travelled to Jingdezhen, China, to deepen her understanding of porcelain and refine her making practice.
Her ceramics have been featured in Vogue Australia and published in Earth & Fire by Thames & Hudson.