Awards & Recognitions

Meet Lizette

Artist - Silversmith - Creator - Educator 

A woman with curly blonde hair, wearing glasses, a white shirt, and blue jeans, stands outdoors near a wooden structure with a green-painted door frame, smiling at the camera.

Lizette holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Gold and Silversmithing from ANU and a Bachelor of Teaching in High School Visual Arts and Photography from Sydney University, she is a dedicated artist and teacher based on the South Coast.

Working primarily with metals—both precious and alternative—she creates a range of wearable and sculptural pieces. Her practice is deeply rooted in themes of place, location, and memory, drawing inspiration from the coastal environment surrounding her seaside studio.

Using techniques such as casting, forging, etching, and material manipulation, her work often incorporates textiles, porcelain and precious gemstones, blending traditional methods with contemporary expression. A spirit of experimentation drives her practice, as she continually explores new ideas and possibilities in her art, while also engaging in teaching and branching into other media as opportunities arise.

Exhibition Work

  • “Kitchen Wear” 2025

    Finalist Lanyon Art Prize ACT Winner Tuggeranong Art Award

    Embroidered cotton images, etched silver, handmade string.

     Inspired by the domestic history of women. 

    Necklace made of various small circular and oval charms with illustrated kitchen utensils, teapots, cups, and dishes, arranged in a bib shape on a black background.
  • “Lemon Biscuits” 2021 (SOLD)

    Lemon biscuit recipe on silk, etched copper buttons.

    Old family recipes handed down and guarded like precious objects.

    An open handwritten recipe on fabric, decorated with pennies around the border.
  • “Leaf Litter”, 2024. (SOLD)

    Sterling Silver, inspired by the Australian Landscape

    Silver necklace with multiple leaf-shaped pendants hanging from a circular chain.
  • “From the Ocean” 2025

    Sterling Silver, 9ct gold, coral, aquamarine(2), emerald, peridot, diamonds(5). Inspired by the layers of beauty and colour within the ocean POA

    Silver necklace with a round pendant featuring two gemstones, one orange and one blue, with decorative elements and small diamonds or similar stones on a black background.
  • Take a Seat

    A quirky silver neckpiece with three different chairs. Etched, stitched and drawn onto the silver and sitting neatly and lightly around the neck. A drawing in jewellery experiment. $550

  • The connective Narratives of Science and the Sea

    Drawing on the symbolism of the sea and sky, this neckpiece merges etched, cast, and formed silver to tell a story of connection and exploration. A cast shell, compass forms, and the Southern Cross echo ancient navigational tools, weaving together science, memory, and the rhythms of the natural world.

  • The Art of Laundry

    Finalist Urunga Small sculpture Prize 202 -Winner Highly Commended.

    There’s no big message here. Just an invitation to notice. To find joy in small things. To laugh at a porcelain pair of undies, and then think, “Actually, that’s kind of lovely.”

    Because there is beauty in the banal. There is poetry in pegged undies. For Sale POA

  • Hung out to dry Porcelain

    Imagine dipping your knickers in porcelain slip and then firing. Add a few domestic pieces and look what you get. Mundane to Extraordinary. POA

    Hung out to dry
  • Halloran Contemporary Art Prize 2025

    Series of three clay vessels, reflecting the Time through the history of Jervis Bay NSW. POA

    Vessels of Time
  • Still Life with Peas

    Porcelain So - I hate Peas!! NFS

  • Held in the Land, Porcelain, stg silver, cotton

    A porcelain Collar and cuff depicting the landscape. Memories held and remembered kept here. Detained in stg silver etchings and findings with a handmade string.

  • "Tide Gifts" 2025

    What treasures the sea brings in. Tide Gifts celebrates the and immortalizes, through casting and shaping and collecting the gifts from the sea. SOLD

    "Tide Gifts" Stg silver, fine silver, gold, diamond found bird bone (SOLD)
  • Current Memories

    This porcelain sculpture captures the layered essence of the ocean through textural elements. Overlapping forms reminiscent of shells and scales ripple outward from a core of clustered beads and wave-like ridges, evoking sea foam, coral formations, and tidal patterns.

    Working in oceanic blues, aquas, and soft greens the piece creates a sense of depth and movement—like looking down through water or across where sea meets sand. The varying textures suggest the ocean's accumulated memory: the persistent cycles of tides, and the rhythmic patterns left by water over time. Part one of 3 POA

    White porcelain, layered in the current of the ocean. Blue, green Aqua and white. Wall hanging In a set or as a single.
  • Handmade Pearl Ring with repurposed client gold

    A special commission ring for a specific pearl made with clients recycled gold

  • Silver, gold and garnet.

    Custom made bangle using recycled silver, gold and garnet.

    Custom Bangle
  • Earth Adornment #1 Clay ( 4mtrs x 4mtrs)

    We have long adorned ourselves with the earth — pulling minerals from its depths, collecting shells from its shores, shaping stone into symbols of beauty and power. Earth Adornment inverts this relationship.

    These large-scale ceramic necklaces are not made to be worn by people. They are offerings — jewels returned to the landscape that inspired them. Laid upon sand, seaweed, and rock, they ask: what does it mean to decorate the earth rather than take from it?

    Each piece is hand-built in clay and placed within the coastal environment from which its forms and colours were drawn. The chains — at once industrial and ceremonial — suggest both the binding of the natural world and our deep, inescapable connection to it.

    Earth Adornment is a gesture of reciprocity.

  • Earth Adornment #1

    Earth Adornment, large scale jewel for the the earth

  • Earth Adornment #2

    We have long adorned ourselves with the earth — pulling minerals from its depths, collecting shells from its shores, shaping stone into symbols of beauty and power. Earth Adornment inverts this relationship.

    These large-scale ceramic necklaces are not made to be worn by people. They are offerings — jewels returned to the landscape that inspired them. Laid upon sand, seaweed, and rock, they ask: what does it mean to decorate the earth rather than take from it?

    Each piece is hand-built in clay and placed within the coastal environment from which its forms and colours were drawn. The chains — at once industrial and ceremonial — suggest both the binding of the natural world and our deep, inescapable connection to it.

    Earth Adornment is a gesture of reciprocity.

  • Recipes for memories

    Textile altars created from scraps, collections and the treasured contents of old sewing boxes — pieces of life, carefully gathered and stitched into meaning.

  • Small World, Full Studio: Self Portrait

    Textile explorations, hand at the center of everything…cast in silver.