Emily Beckley is an artist based in Horn Island, Torres Strait, Queensland. Her artistic practice is deeply entwined with the cultural practice of her Meriam Mer ancestry.

Emily draws on the experiences, stories and history of her culture via her parents from the Meriam – Samsep of Mer and Panai of Mabuiag. She has created these works in silver jewellery as a way to connect the past to the future.

These works in this exhibition were created in The Indigenous Jewellery Project workshop run by curator Emily McCulloch Childs and contemporary jeweller Melinda Young, who taught participants how to use the lost wax technique of metal-working.

This workshop, held at Gab Titui Cultural Centre, Waiben (Thursday Island), Torres Strait Islands, in April 2018, was the first contemporary jewellery workshop of its kind to be held in the Torres Strait Islands.