PRESS RELEASE: Murmuration - Moving Together: Glasgow Artist Translates Empathy and Connection into Handcrafted Jewellery

Bias’s creative career spans more than two decades in animation, illustration, and community-based art. Her award-winning animated shorts have screened in over thirty international festivals and exhibitions, including Tate Liverpool and the Horniman Museum. Having long translated lived experience into digital forms, she now works directly with her hands, shaping silver as a more intimate and embodied kind of storytelling.

“I’ve spent most of my creative life telling stories – online, on screens – about seeking and building connection with one another, as well as with the most marginalised aspects of ourselves.” Bias says. “Metalsmithing wasn’t the most predictable new medium for me, but it’s been the most instinctive. Making by hand is liberating after decades of digital work, and it’s wonderful to be able to tell stories that people can literally carry around with them.”

As automation and AI transform creative industries, Bias’s shift into hand-crafted metalwork is also an act of creative survival and a conscious decision to reclaim slowness and imperfection as values in a quietly homogenising society. Each piece begins as an illustration, evolves through saw-piercing, forming, and engraving in a hands-on process that mixes meaning with material to create work that sits between storybook and sculpture.

“It’s a radical thing now to take your time,” she says. “Human hands still matter! Not just what they make but how it feels to make something or to know the hands that made it.”

The Murmuration collection balances symbolism and realism, blending flowing lines and silver spheres that evoke the fluid geometry of flight with finely detailed, saw-pierced and hand-engraved flocks that capture their living grace. The symbolic wing includes a one-of-a-kind cuff bracelet alongside a repeatable ring and pendant, while the larger body features the collection’s signature engraved flock (pendant and brooch), as well as shadowbox, saw-pierced, and engraved pendants, earrings, rings, and brooches, all made by hand in recycled sterling silver.

A newcomer to Glasgow, Bias found creative kinship in Vanilla Ink, an LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent-affirming community interest company that provided both mentorship and a community of supportive makers.

“Moving from the laid-back Pacific Northwest (USA) to then spend a decade in bustling, impersonal London, I didn’t realise how much I needed a friendly, welcoming community again until I found one,” she says. “Glasgow, and Vanilla Ink in particular, were soft nests to land in. Both have made space for me to rest up, skill up, and explore a new path.”

Rooted in Bias’s long history of community-engaged art and activism, Murmuration celebrates the beauty, power, and safety found in moving together, a reflection on what it means to find connection and strength in fragmented times.

“It’s a metaphor for how we survive,” Bias says. “Which is together. We show up, we learn, adapt, and protect one another. There’s real grace in that.”

Murmuration: Moving Together will be available from November 15th at stacybiasjewellery.com. Each piece is made by hand in Glasgow using recycled sterling silver, ethically sourced materials, and environmentally responsible processes.

About Stacy Bias

Stacy Bias is a Glasgow-based multidisciplinary artist and jeweller whose practice explores empathy, connection, and identity through narrative craft. With a background in animation, illustration, and community engaged art, her work bridges digital and physical forms, from internationally exhibited films to hand-engraved silver jewellery.