Antique Ruskin ceramic pins

Cured fish skins -Carp, Salmon and Wolf fish

Pins for display in Walcot Chapel exhibition

Pins for display in Walcot Chapel exhibition

Pins for display in Walcot Chapel exhibition

The remade broaches/pins I am making for the Walcot Chapel exhibition have as their base a pin that was made in 1900 by women who bought a kit which included a piece of ceramic from the Ruskin Art pottery and some pewter.   The pins soon became a badge worn by women to show commitment to The Arts and Crafts movement  with its rejection of mass machine production.   I have adapted these pins by using cured fish skins and making them look like fish eyes  so they can be worn to represent concerns that we are loosing fish stocks and abusing the seas with pollution.