Sally Dudmesh has spent the last twenty years travelling extensively across Africa, Asia and Arabia as an anthropologist and recently converted to the lustrous possibilities of gold and gemstones.

Her home in Nairobi, the Ngong Dairy, doubled as Karen Blixen’s house in the film Out of Africa. It is here that she works with a co-operative of Maasai women who are the backbone of her beading operation, and a goldsmith who works alongside her. 

Her latest collections are derived both from her studies of Roman, Etruscan and Ancient Egyptian jewellery in the British Museum and the inspiration she derives from the worldwide significance placed in amulets.

Mogambo crafts exquisite, statement making jewellery, bags and accessories, all hand-made from African raw materials. Elizabeth Glaysher’s project helps Kenyan artists develop a self reliant source of income.

“Silk Road” will be showing at Showcase Gallery from 18th to 21^st June 2011