Julie Blyfield: Chasing a passion celebrates the lifework of renowned South Australian jeweller and metalsmith Julie Blyfield and her status as a JamFactory ICON. In 2007, Blyfield became the recipient of the South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Award, one outcome of which was the publication of a monograph on her work written by Stephanie Radok and Dick Richards. This second volume detailing Blyfield’s prolific artistic career identifies the developments and salient influences in her practice in the 17 years since the publication of the SALA monograph. Although this book particularly focuses on the work made in her home studio following her departure from Gray Street Workshop at the end of 2009, an overview of her earlier practice is included, with the aim of both contextualising and providing insight into the work made by her in the last decade and a half.
