Robyn Stewart has been a creative on and off for over 30 years, starting as a production style potter in ceramics, then moving to silver smithing and now she has combined the two mediums to create the jewellery and homewares brand, Birdy and Clementine.
Travelling from her studio on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Robyn is a frequent stallholder at the Handmade Canberra markets. Robyn says she is driven by an earring addiction, making bold colourful earrings that are playfully elegant. Each small batch of earrings begins as a spontaneous inquiry into pattern and colour. There is no mass production, just thoughtful creation with Birdy and Clementine’s hallmark 24kt gold linework bringing the process to completion. Each pair of earrings is unique, a mini abstract in porcelain using various techniques. When time permits, Robyn also creates functional ware for the home, favourites being vases and serving dishes.

Bart Meehan, Peter Fock and Cameron ThomasLast year, radio drama returned to ArtSound FM, Canberra’s arts and music community radio station, with the addition of ArtSound Radio Theatre. Now the program has reached its first anniversary, and is going strongly.

“We’ve had a great response from local writers and actors, who have enthusiastically taken on the challenge of producing work for radio,” says the program’s producer, Bart Meehan, a prolific local playwright.