About me
Once upon a time, in the mystical land of Edinburgh lived the storyteller. She had her head in the clouds and holes in her tights. Each day she would ride her glittering unicorn through the wild valleys of the land to her creative bubble high atop the towering walls of her workshop castle. Once there, she would etch fragments of shining metal and stitch and bead and fire them together until fantastical wearable narratives unfolded before her eyes and…
…oh, wait a minute, that’s me! Hi there, my name is Chloe Henderson… okay, so maybe I don’t ride a unicorn into the studio every morning but I do create jewellery and artworks based upon stories.
Stories are my life; to read and to write.
I take my inspiration from songs, novels, poetry, lore and mythology, faerytales, movies, and all that is glorious in the storytelling world.
I either: use a story in its entirety and transform it into my own re-telling of the tale through artworks or adornments, or I take a snippet of a story and write my own narrative, weaving in details of adornments that I can bring to life in the world of reality.
My favoured method of conquering a story is freeing it into a piece of jewellery. I work with a variety of materials, and love connecting them back to the story I'm working with. My favourite technique is etching, and most of my work features etched patterns; there is something so glorious about being able to produce a drawing on metal. This practice has led me to create my Zendoodles collection, and continues to be a feature of development within my drawings and artworks.
And they all lived happily ever after...
Projects
- DJCAD Degree ShowOnce upon a time I created a degree show titled Lexicon Creatures; a collection of five narratives transformed into three-dimensional, wearable creations. My name is Chloe Henderson and I am a fangirl; nothing gives me more joy than falling in love with new fictions, and being able to construct these fantasies with my hands is glorious. I want to promote the value of being a fan, of loving something so much that you want to embellish your body with handmade dedications to your fandom, and prove your love to the world. I conquer my story obsessions by making something from them with my hands. Stories are my life; my mind is full of songs and novels and poems and fanfictions and tales of curiosities and lore and faerytales and movies and folktales and all the glorious excerpts in-between. I’m a lover of the fantastical and magical, of the eccentric and the bizarre, and most of all I love the clever ones and the unexpected surprises. This is what I want to capture and let loose upon my work. My degree show work examines five of my favourite narratives. Using a wide variety of unusual materials and techniques, I create my 3-dimensional, wearable representations of these tales. Each piece is displayed with a handmade book (please pick up these books and read through them), which tells the story of the story, as well as the conception of the work, to the viewer. And they all lived happily ever after…
Work history
Administrative Assistant
Voluntary administrative assistance to the money advisor of the Dunedin Canmore, Edinburgh branch.
Research Intern
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Research based intern for Moira Warren. My tasks were to aid in promoting her new line of jewellery by undertaking research into the best avenues of advertising within Edinburgh and the UK.
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Skills
- Visual Arts
- Craft
- Drawing
- Painting
- Retail
- Fine Art
- Design
- Illustration
- Photoshop
- Flexible
- Quick Learner
- Reliable
- Making a Good cup of tea
- Making
- Administraion
Education
Jewellery and Metal Design BDes (hons
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Jewellery & Metal Design
English, Maths, Classical Studies, Lact, Computing, Biology, Spanish
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School Student
Awards
Light Space & Time "Seascapes" Special Recognition Award
Saul Bell Design Awards Emerging Artists Finalist
For my Faery Wings headpiece.
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