The monograph on Julie Blyfield represents a major change in focus for the series: she is a jeweller, not a painter or sculptor like most of the previous subjects. Blyfield is well known in Australian jewellery circles, and her work is represented in Australian public collections, as well as internationally, notably the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Her jewellery and objects draw on personal memories, history and nature. Her facility with her medium, remarkable technique and intelligence combine at the bench to produce original objects of real beauty. So this is an appropriate and welcome addition to the stable of monographs.

The artist has been well served by her two Adelaide authors. Stephanie Radok, artist and critic – an interesting choice since, in her journalism, she has decried the display of decorative arts in art museums – proves herself an able and original craft writer. Dick Richards, a former decorative arts curator and one-time silversmith himself, covers aspects of the history of jewellery in Australia from a South Australian perspective. Despite the occasional editorial mishap and misspelling (Schomburgk, not Schombergk), Julie Blyfield forms a valuable and appealing addition to Australian craft literature.