Eleanor Symms designs and creates unique pieces of jewellery and small editions from found and reclaimed materials, usually combined with recycled silver. 

Her work is a response to materials which have had a ‘former life’ and she is intrigued by the histories of the materials she finds or salvages. 

Eleanor’s fascination with ‘stuff’ and the origins, properties and potential of    different materials drives her practice. She aims to make work which is wearable, original and beautiful and which questions ideas of ‘preciousness’.