AUSTRALIAN SAPPHIRES

AN INVESTIGATION INTO COLOUR, CUT, LIGHT & SCALE

Macro photograph by Cesar Cueva of a faceted Australian parti sapphire, revealing angular planes and colour transitions from golden yellow and amber to green and turquoise.

ONE STONE.
MANY WAYS OF SEEING.

Australian sapphires are remarkable for their diversity of colour, often revealing several distinct colours within a single gemstone.

Through photography, magnification and changes in light, I investigate the relationship between a gemstone's external geometry and the optical effects occurring within it.

Each stone becomes an individual study of colour, light and composition, revealing details that are not immediately apparent to the naked eye.

SELECTED SAPPHIRES

Focus stacked photograph of a 3.17 ct Australian yellow green parti sapphire with a pentagonal cut, showing golden facets and blue green colour transitions.

YELLOW GREEN PARTI SAPPHIRE
3.17 CT / PENTAGONAL CUT

Focus stacked photograph of a 1.65 ct Australian blue yellow parti sapphire with an emerald cut, revealing angular facets and contrasting blue and pale yellow colour.

BLUE YELLOW PARTI SAPPHIRE
1.65 CT / EMERALD CUT

Focus stacked photograph of a 3.56 ct Australian blue green sapphire with a square emerald cut, showing geometric facets and deep blue, green and pale yellow reflections.

BLUE GREEN SAPPHIRE
3.56 CT / SQUARE EMERALD CUT

FEATURED SAPPHIRE STUDY

Macro photograph by Cesar Cueva of a faceted Australian parti sapphire, revealing angular planes and colour transitions from golden yellow and amber to green and turquoise.

GOLDEN PARTITIONS

“This is what draws me to Australian parti sapphires. Within a single stone, colour moves from yellow and amber into green and blue. The precision of the cut creates an extraordinary geometry, but every facet offers a different view. It's this individuality that makes them so compelling to work with.”

ORIGIN / Glen Innes, NSW, Australia
WEIGHT / 4.84 ct
COLOUR / Yellow, green and blue
CUT / Emerald radiant cut

001 / PARTITIONS

AUSTRALIAN PARTI SAPPHIRE

Nine photographic nodes selected from a single Australian parti sapphire.

Through magnification and changes in perspective, the stone reveals intersecting planes, shifting colour and unexpected compositions.

Each node offers a different point of entry into the same gemstone, tracing a progression from amber and yellow through to green and turquoise.

PARTITIONS by Cesar Cueva. Nine macro photographic details of a single Australian parti sapphire from Glen Innes, NSW, revealing geometric facets and colour transitions from golden yellow and amber to green and turquoise

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