Platinum, much less yielding than copper, has been explored by Jacqueline Mina in abstract filigree and crochet respectively. Mina, long at the forefront of contemporary experimentation with precious metals, explains that platinum is ‘not hard, cold or tough’ but ‘capable of great delicacy, elegance and preciousness’.

Jacqueline Mina is otherwise known for her innovative and pioneering use of gold. She creates surfaces that are naturally patterned and sensual in feel. One of her pioneering techniques is a fusion inlay with platinum and gold. She continues to push the boundaries of goldsmithing techniques to find new expression.

Jacqueline Mina writes in the foreword of a catalogue to the exhibition ‘Or Gold’, which she curated in 2004: “I know from my own practice that gold as an artistic medium is an undeniably versatile metal and that many imaginative artists choose to use it for its limitless physical possibilities. In addition to the appreciation of its natural characteristics they find that their jewellery is endowed with an allure that is carried down from antiquity in the collective subconscious.”