The Hartorium Collection
There’s something about revisiting your own work that changes how you see it. Details you once overlooked start to stand out, and ideas begin to connect in ways they didn’t before. This new collection grew from that. I've merged my MA Project Curating the Collected with the original Hartorium Motif to create something more resolved, more intentional. Each piece feels like a refinement of what came before, shaped with a clearer sense of direction and purpose.
It’s not about starting over, but about building on what already exists and giving it the space to evolve into something stronger.
Lithocasts by Hartorium®
Lithocasts are an innovative way of creating art jewellery, produced by Hartorium in early 2021.
Their appearance is comprised of 3Dimensional images which are cast into fine metals. The process can be intentionally disrupted to give it an antiqued effect, creating a piece even more unique than one which is cast using controlled methods.
Lithocasts are very tactile and feel much like coins or medals which translates into jewellery incredibly well. Being so highly customisable, they can be made into a wide variety of jewellery formats.
Curating the Collected.
Jewellery made using collected objects.
Stress is a familiar feeling but is difficult for many of us to discuss. Jewellery is a means of expressing complex emotions and can also act as a catalyst for conversations with others when displayed on the body. These conversations can provide people with a way to discuss complex feelings such as stress and in turn alleviate the feelings of stress.
For her MA project, Hayley has used auto-ethnography to create a series of jewellery comprised of personally collected objects, aiming to portray the feeling of stress weighing you down and providing a means to spark conversation about these feelings.
The Hartorium Motif.
Jewellery inspired by stag antlers.
The Hartorium motif arrived shortly after the creation of the brand.
'Hartorium' is an abbreviation of 'Hayley's Art Emporium' which collates the interdisciplinary
practices of the artist allowing them to co-exsist under the same name.
Hart is an archaic word for 'stag', used in medieval times to describe a deer stag more than five years old. This is where the use of deer antlers became the brands motif.
