Soizig Carey is a Glasgow-based artist and designer-maker specialising in contemporary jewellery. Her practice is rooted in slow design and making, feminism and anti-capitalist consumer culture. She is acutely conscious of the impact her work has on human labour, supply chains and the environment. Using both ancient and new making processes, she is drawn towards creating modernist and long-lasting pieces. Collaboration is a very important part of her practice, in particular with women artists whose aims are thought-provoking and playful. Soizig regularly recycles and re-makes heirlooms, modernising symbolic pieces.

Soizig graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and has been working in the creative and cultural sector in Scotland as a producer and facilitator for over a decade, motivated by care, compassion, collaboration and (actual) social equity. She is also Arts and Cultural Development Officer for Scottish Refugee Council, an independent charity dedicated to supporting people in need of refugee protection. Here, she advocates for the cultural rights of people who have sought refugee protection where the right to creative expression, the right to participate in cultural life and the right to earn a living from artistic and cultural pursuits is widely recognised and supported across society.

Image: Courtesy of Soizig Carey