Red PegEco Studio

Gabrielle McGrath makes jewellery the way she once made sculpture — she trained at Sydney's National Art School and spent a decade exhibiting steel constructions before turning to the bench, and treats each silver or gold piece as a small sculpture rather than a setting. Her far south coast studio is a working shopfront: passersby are pulled in by the hammering and the torch flame. The metal is recycled and salvaged from an Australian supplier, scrap goes back in the melt pot for a closed loop, and she'll remake old or inherited jewellery into something worn again.