The 14th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia Biennial is in full swing with the conference last weekend and many accompanying exhibitions now on around town. At Central Gallery two exhibitions reveal emerging (or re-emerging) jewellers in Graduate Metal XII and Return.

The latter is curated by Melissa Cameron around a number of jewellers who trained in Perth but then left for other creative pastures. Graduate Metal XII brings together recent graduates from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in what is a show full of vibrancy, energy and the sheer attack on materials which you would hope for from graduating students.

I enjoyed the audacity of much of the work, with design and material being exposed as processes full of potential, with the idea of jewellery being pushed and prodded into all forms of existence.

Particular highlights for me included Angela Porritt's mechanical In My garden, Claudia Deese-Linder's sugar rabbit brooch, Sugar and Spice, and Jhana Millers' We Propose a Gift She Will Never Forget, a series of layered rings.

• At Perth Galleries is 20-10, the Award Exhibition, while next door at Gallery East is Makers Metier, an impressive body of work from five international jewellers - Helen Britton, Cynthia Cousens, Karl Fritsch, Elizabeth Turrell and Lisa Walker.

In Maker Metier, we see an extension of jewellery into subversive, bulky sculptural forms alongside elegant and ephemeral "drawings" which evoke weightlessness.

Walker's chunky works hit the eye; pendants and brooches assembled from plastic toys and found material are lacquered and threaded to make what is fun, confident and critical body art.

Fritsch also takes a subversive approach but more so in questioning the materialism of presentation.

Britton's series of works are a collision of design culture, theatre and a materialism of abundance while Turrell's series of war badges critiques the history of decoration and jewellery.