Denatured galia melon peel, marigold petals, sintered aluminium, mica, stainless steel

‘MelonColley’ series uses materiality and humour to discuss the depression experienced by sufferers of long-term chronic health conditions. With a focus on Rachael’s personal experience of the auto-immune disease systemic sclerosis, the discarded melon skin’s re-presentation as jewellery communicates aspects of her physical sensations through the hardened leather-like fruit peel.