Melissa Baldock Silversmith

Melissa Baldock works from a studio on her 50-acre property at Snug, cutting eucalyptus silhouettes by hand with a jeweller's saw and using copper alloys—sterling silver, shibuichi, shakudo—alongside mokume gane for their capacity to oxidise into earthy tones. Her background in horticulture and land conservation shapes everything; the Tasmanian landscape is the material as much as the metal.