A UNIQUE exhibition telling its designer's story through contemporary jewellery is taking place in Sleaford this week.

Transplantation - a Sense of Place and Culture will be taking place from Saturday, February 25 to Sunday, April 29 at The National Centre for Craft & Design in Sleaford.

Curator professor Norman Cherry said: "I hope that visitors will be engaged, challenged and delighted by the experience.

"I hope that they will think about their own cultural sense of place and perhaps re-evaluate it and hope they will come to think about jewellery in a different way, not simply as something decorative to wear, to indicate status or wealth, or to match the day's outfit, but an eminently portable, wearable artform with its own stories, histories and metaphors."

A spokesman for the exhibit said: "Jewellery offers an art form which provides a means of recording memory and experience in a portable and wearable form.

"Through this medium it is possible to express ideas, thoughts, and concerns, which may not be achievable in other ways.

"Each artist has drawn on those experiences to create work which is powerful, engaging and thought-provoking and which, it is hoped will encourage viewers to reflect seriously on the topic and consider how it relates to themselves."

Twelve contemporary jewellery artists from the UK and Australia have been selected to create up to three pieces of work each, which will articulate the notion of 'transplantation in a tangible form'.

For more information visit www.nationalcraftanddesign. co.uk