Artist-metalsmith Juliette Bigley uses the vessel-form as a canvas through which to consider how we negotiate our emotional and physical place in the world. She is particularly interested in exploring the threshold that lies between the intangible world of emotion, belief, thought, language and memory, and the physical and tangible world in which we play out our lives. Trained at The Cass School of Art, she exhibits regularly both nationally and internationally and has work in private and public collections, including the V&A and the Irish State Collection. A regular speaker about making and its role in society, writing is an inherent part of her practice. Bigley has recently produced a publication, Material Perspectives, funded by Arts Council England. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.