argot McKinney is a woman of patience and precision. Famously, she once waited 10 years to complete a piece of jewellery, having come across two glorious (and rare) black opals from the small, outback town of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales. “I put them aside as I knew I would eventually find others,” she says. And she did – over the next, an ode to opals and diamonds that is a work of art so dazzling that one might expect to see it in a gallery. It’s a sentiment true of many of Margot’s pieces, and one that the Museum of Brisbane recognised 18 months ago when it started working with the esteemed jeweller to curate the exhibition.
