Two Charles Sturt University (CSU) graduates have come up trumps in the National Contemporary Jewellery Awards held on Thursday 24 October at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery. Ms Emily Snadden from Wagga Wagga, was highly commended for ‘best innovative contemporary jewellery design’. Ms Snadden, who graduated with the Bachelor of Arts (Jewellery) in 2006, works in the CSU School of Visual and Performing Arts. Her design entitled The Bends continued her exploration into the potential plasticity and malleability of metal. “My works are unashamedly quirky and conceptual works which aim to demonstrate a material plasticity normally uncharacteristic to metal,” said Ms Snadden. Ms Emma Kidson, also from Wagga Wagga, won the ‘best innovative contemporary jewellery design submitted by an artist under 26 years of age’. Ms Kidson owns a jewellery design business in Wagga Wagga and graduated from CSU in 2007. Entitled Origami Box Ring 1, Ms Kidson submitted a sterling silver ring.