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Colette Hazelwood

Studio 4,
Manchester Craft & Design Centre,
17 Oak Street,
Northern Quarter,
Manchester,
M4 5JD

Colette is a native Mancunian, she graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a 1st class BA Hons in 3D Design in 1999, she then started her own business _ Colette Hazelwood Contemporary Jewellery. Her shop is in the Manchester Craft & Design Centre, situated in the citys trendy Northern Quarter, here she can be seen working at her bench where designs and makes all her ranges and here, she also sells other contemporary jewellery designers work.

Colette is known for her unconventional jewellery, she has used materials such as plastic, rubber, steel & even hearing aids and baby teeth. However, she still uses silver & gold and her trademark Barb Wire Jewellery and Fuse Range is proof that jewellery design doesn't have to be middle of the road

. With several high profile shows including Chelsea Crafts Fair, Designfront04 and ClothesShow Live under her belt Colette continues to bring “A little experimentation to the public”

She aims to create items of body adornment that raise questions about what we normally perceive as ‘jewellery’. Her chosen materials are quite often non-precious however; they are special objects because of the time that goes into producing them.

Colette has exhibited her work internationally Brussels, Sydney, Singapore, San Fransisco and New York are among the list.

“Art You Wear” Manchester Evening News

“Colette Hazelwood’s inspiring jewellery is both eerily beautiful and eye catching. Fierce spikes are combined with intricate fibres to create necklaces for people who like a little risk mixed with their jewellery” Skin Two
Her ranges suit all budgets depending on your desire; her successes include ‘Mouthpiece’ (a series of mouthpieces designed to push and pull the face around) and ‘Hearing Aid Jewellery’ for the Adorn Equip exhibition. She is also a regional winner of the Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur Award and as her achievements continue to rise so does her reputation as a leading contemporary jewellery designer. And most recently has been featured in New Directions in Jewellery, a book with over 80 international leading contemporary jewellery designers and in the Good Shopping Guide in the Guardian Newspaper.She urges you to throw away your diamond ring and join her outside the jewellery closet