FINGER BETWEENS ARE BACK

IN AND OUT AND IN BETWEEN

At first glance, the pieces of silver on these pages look like torture instruments - beautifully crafted and carefully carved, but painful all the same. Take a closer look, and disregard all your preconceptions about what you think is jewellery.

Since graduating from the RCA with an MA in metalwork and jewellery in 1993, Naomi Filmer has been pursuing her own particular style of jewellery. She looks at the negative spaces of the body and has found a whole new way of adorning it. Instead of wrapping around the fingers, her rings slot between them. Likewise, she makes organic silver plugs that fit between toes, and inside the ear lobes. She has had to find new names for these pieces, calling them the "finger between", the "toe between", the "ear- plug" and the "ankle clamp" (below). Much of her work is sculpted to fit and made to order. She has also worked with designers Hussein Chalayan, Julien McDonald and Tristan Webber on pieces for their catwalk shows. Filmer calls herself a conceptual jewellery designer, working not only with precious metals but with light, UV tubing and brightly-coloured hair. WATCH THIS SPACE !!!!!!!! In the near future we could well have our bodies adorned with jewellery in spaces and places we never ever dreamed of.