Tania Clarke Hall crafts her jewellery from leather - her 'perfect creative playmate' - to produce confident, eyecatching and versatile collections.
Her designs are driven by a love of experimentation and her desire to challenge the way in which leather is used in jewellery. Her inspiration is eclectic: the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi, the beauty of geometric solutions and tribal jewellery.
The resulting work is innovative, sculptural and bold. Flashes of colour highlight slashed, twisted and moulded leather forms and flat pieces of leather playfully transform into multidimensional necklaces. Her jewellery is not only stunning and highly wearable, but also environmentally friendly. Only vegetable tanned leather is used in her work.
Tania's jewellery has received critical acclaim and has been sold at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and is currently stocked in many top US art museums. She recently worked alongside the Southbank Centre to design a collection for their Festival Terrace Shop (named one of London's top 100 shops).
Tania designs and makes her jewellery in her studio at Cockpit Arts, one of London's key creative hubs and works for retail and individual clients alike.
AWARDS| March 2009 | Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Award - Gallery Jewellery Design, Commended |
| May 2008 | The Leathersellers' Company Award (From Beast to Beauty) |
| 2011 | 'Dazzle', Manchester New York International Gift Fair, USA |
| 2010 | 'Dazzle', Manchester 'Origin', London 'All Wired Up', SCD Gallery, London 'Bloom',Southbank Festival Terrace Shop, London 'Designer Gallery Window', Canary Wharf Shopping Mall, London |
| 2009 | Liberating Leather', Studio Fusion Gallery, London (Sept - Oct) Goldsmiths' Craftmanship & Design Council Awards, London |
| 2008 | Genesis 08, SDC Gallery, London Spotlight on Jewellery, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool Marzee International Graduation Show 2008, Galerie Marzee, Holland New Designers, London |
| 2010 | 'Leather Jewelry', Nathalie Mornu, Lark Books (2010) |
| 2009 | 'Sustainable Jewellery', Julia Manheim, A & C Black Publisher (2009) |