It is World Mental Health Day today, and we are looking to the “anxiety jewellery” of Charlotte Garnett for an intriguing perspective on mental illness and the arts. Informed by her own experience of anxiety, Garnett designed the wearable pieces to naturally follow the various ways in which we fiddle with jewellery to settle our nerves. “I’ve always enjoyed creating emotionally-charged and poignant art, taking inspiration from my own life, so it made sense to turn an all-encompassing negative into the fuel for my debut collection,” she explained in an interview with Elephant earlier this year.
