Tabitha Higgins has been involved in the jewellery industry for 30 years.  She currently works from her off grid studio on the Tasman Peninsula in Koonya, Tasmania.  She trained in Sheffield, heart of the UK's metal industry.  After completing a degree in Jewellery and Silversmithing in 1993, Tabitha began creating a range of jewellery that sold through selected London galleries and to private clients. Clients include H.R.H. King Charles.

 

Migrating to Australia in 1998, Tabitha spent a year circumnavigating the country. Returning to Sydney and bursting with inspired energy, she began creating and once again exhibiting her work.

 

In 2002, Tabitha set up and established ’1000 degrees C’, her own gallery in Avalon, on Sydney's Northern Beaches.  The gallery exhibited and promoted over one hundred of Australia’s jewellers and glass artists work. Eventually she sold her gallery to focus on her own work and since then has been working to commission, designing and making individual pieces for her clients.  She moved to Tasmania at the end of 2018 and continues her studio there, producing work for local, interstate and international clients.

 

Her ‘Blue' Hidden Treasure necklace was selected as a finalist piece in the Australian Jeweller’s Association Biennial Award of 2000.  In 2014, Tabitha was selected as a finalist in the Australasian Jewellery Awards, this time presenting 'Idris', also part of her Hidden Treasure range.

 

Tabitha works with many materials, usually precious metals but her commissions have included less conventional materials such as wood, glass, feathers and sand.  Many clients want to use their own existing gemstones.  She can also supply high quality conflict free diamonds and other more unusual gemstones.