About
ERIN LIGHTFOOT is a designer with her roots in fashion. After graduating from a fashion degree in 2011, Erin had experience the satisfaction of designing a collection and winning an industry award but was left daunted by the prospect of finding relevant work and wondered where would be the place for her creativity.
Fearing, a life spent in dispatch warehouse for a major fashion-brand, Erin started looking for a creative outlet and turned to her Mum and her mothers sculpture studio where she experimented with clay.
Bringing a fashion lens to ceramics, Erin realised she could create very interesting results by fusing textile designs with the tactile, tasteful material of porcelain.
Using digital prints and techniques more usually paired with crockery, Erin created a range of porcelain bangles that had such a unique quality that they found their way (to her astonishment) to the pages of Vogue.
Since then she has been on a quest to craft porcelain into jewellery that looks just as appealing as jewels made from precious metal and stones.
INSPIRATION is everywhere but Erin particularly draws from past design movements with a geometric and paired-back sensibility including Modernism, Art Deco and Neo-classical periods. These references are the background to noticing design details in buildings and objects and interpreting them into jewellery that feels slightly reminiscent of something while maintaining a current feel.
THE STUDIO is based in Brisbane, Australia, in a special old building that once housed artists of another era. All of the porcelain work is completed by hand, with much attention to each detail that makes it come to be.
Her ceramics and print designs have been featured extensively including in Vogue Australia, The Block on Channel 9, and published in Earth & Fire (Thames & Hudson). Her label is currently stocked in gallery and gift boutiques around Australia.
