Maca Bernal

b.1982, El Salvador, Chile, New Zealand citizen, Macarena has a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts from Finis Terrae University in Santiago, an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery Practice from MIT in Auckland, a Post Graduate Degree and a Master’s Degree from Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin School of Arts.
This Visual Artist chooses Contemporary Jewellery as her medium for its wearability offers interactivity. Her works explore alternative ideas of value in jewellery by capitalising on the bonds between jewellery and wearer, propounding jewellery as wearable forms of archive, or using it as a platform to make socio-political statements.