Belinda Newick 

belindanewick@hotmail.com
@belindanewick

maker | jewellery & objects | curator

Belinda Newick is a contemporary Jeweller whose work explores cultural hybridity and place. She captures the emotions, imprints and memories of life through subtle applied surface textures and text. Newick maintains a diverse practice as a studio based jeweller, hand making bespoke jewellery and acupuncture tools. She is an educator at Melbourne Polytechnic in the Jewellery and Object Design program and an independent curator. 

Newick spent six years in South Australia at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Gray Street Workshop and Zu design jewellery + objects, before settling in Melbourne in 2005. Newick has been the recipient of two grants international grants, an Asialink Residency in Sri Lanka 2004 and another in Kerala, India 2001. She has exhibited in Asia, New Zealand and the USA and maintains an exhibition and gallery profile in Australia and overseas. Winner of 2019 Lynne Kosky Award for Contemporary Jewellery, Victorian Craft Awards.