A little background…
G'day! I'm Brett,
and welcome to Stag Jewellery Designs.
This whole idea began while I was spending some time fossicking for sapphires in the central Queensland gemfields region in 2022.
I thought to myself,
rough sapphires hold so much beauty. How can I show these off to the world? How can I show people that gemstones don't have to be fancy cut for them to be admired?
And that thought became a little bit of an obsession...
A couple of years later, I learnt two things…
Firstly, rough gemstones are really hard to try to set into jewellery, because their shapes are all natural stone shapes.
Secondly, sapphires are strong enough to withstand being cast in place.
Right into a ring mold!
And suddenly, the very first Unearthed ring was born.
After that, my brain began to explode with all kinds of ideas for designs!
The common theme? The natural world.
I’ve always found so much awe in the world around us. From rocks, to plants and animals.
I was even privileged enough to spend a decade teaching scuba diving, and there’s a lot of that life that still shows through in my designs, which I persoanlly treasure.
My work.
All of my pieces carry with them a story of the world around us.
From raw, natural sapphires that have come straight out of the ground and into a ring, to designs based off volcanoes, and shifting tectonic plates.
The ocean has a strong hold on me also, and I use natural, foraged pieces, like cuttlefish bone, and sharks teeth, to create unique designs in the hopes that people will see them and it will inspire their love for the sea and the earth.
I lean heavily into the Japanese philosophy, “wabi-sabi” which appreciates the beauty in the irregular, the flawed, and the imperfect.
I want to show people that just because something hasn’t been shaped to the societal standard of normal, does not mean it’s any less beautiful.
