EMODIVERSE TOUR GUIDES
LAURA MIERS AIR EMODIVERSE TOUR GUIDES ARE HERE TO MEET YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE IN YOUR MULTIDIMENSIONAL LIFE. THEY ARE READY TO TAKE A JOURNEY WITH YOU, SLOWLY NAVIGATING YOUR INTRICATE RELATIONSHIPS (WITH PEOPLE, PLACE AND TIME) AND TRANSLATING THEM INTO A SACRED OBJECT FOR YOU TO HOLD AND BE HELD BY.
JOHN MIERS: AIRCRAFT FUEL
After growing up in Wiradjuri Country, under the house on the hill (Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls Home), John and his younger brother Peter moved to New Zealand, working on the snow fields by day and began experimenting with silver at night.
On their return to Cootamundra, John and Pete set up a workshop in their parents garage, and were creating waves in the jewellery scene with their handsome allure and detailed craftsmanship.
The boys were also saving up pipeline pay to open their own Jewellery studio in Batemans Bay (Yuin Country) when John was electrocuted on his 27th Birthday, Valentines Day 1981.
Since his death, John has continued to burn in the hearts of his family; fueling their lives, jewellery careers, takeoffs and takedowns.
PETE MIERS: RUNWAY ENGINEER
Through 25 years of dedication to his craft, Peter is now known around the world for his unique handmade gum nut and leaf designs, along with his charming warmth and wicked wit.
Two months after John died, Peter moved from Cootamundra to Yuin Country with John’s compensation and partner Alison to set up J & P Miers Jewellery Studio and Gallery. He is a certified master craftsman and has guided multiple men and women through their jewellery careers. He also played a leading role in bringing the community together with local sports, events and to stop the Charcoal Factory in Mogo. However, in the midst of blowing his own smoke rings, he once turned to his only daughter and said “You know you’re my favorite person in the whole world.” One night in 2004, after dinner with his three children Sam (17), Jay (16) and Laura (13), Peter had a surprise brain hemorrhage and went to live with John. His life and spirit now engineer the Laura Miers runway.
LAURA MIERS: EMO PILOT/MRS MOP
Laura spent years jet-setting around the world before returning to Batemans Bay in 2016 to follow in her father’s footsteps. On arrival, she found her childhood home up for rent, which housed Pete’s garage workshop in the 80s. With her brother Sam, Laura moved in and set up a workbench in Dad’s old studio. Soon, Pete’s apprentice and best mate Robbie Beecher moved his bench in too and shared with Laura her father’s self-taught jewellery practice with many of his original tools and lots of iconic stories.
With her weapons in spirit’s land, she quickly developed her own voice in the industry. Now, Laura takes risks to open up the emotionally diverse world where people live. She creates the eternal by integrating the people and places that shape her jewellery with the intention of each piece to build future stories.
As a team leader she accepts no crown, but crowns ~ gliding around the gates all day listening carefully to and uniting each crew member’s perspective.
Over the years, Laura has simultaneously become the emotional pilot and janitor for Laura Miers Jewellery. She looks forward to leading customers on their journey with Laura Miers Air and cleaning up any mess left behind.
ANNIE DOUGHTY: SKY TOWER RADIO POLICE/CUSTOMS AGENT
Born a few years later, but from the same lands (Yuin Country), Annie first crossed paths with Laura making coffee in Moruya in 2015.
Annie later joined Laura Miers Jewellery in 2018 when the business shifted from Pete’s old studio in Batemans Bay to a Braidwood shopfront. Here she became part owner and Laura’s ultimate co-pilot, taking a leading role in the composition of designs. Her ability to transform Laura’s and customer’s detailed concepts and feelings into precise sketchups have become a crucial backbone of the business.
Four years of being the Laura Miers Jewellery hard-drive, hand model, designer and emotional stabilizer has given Annie a whole gamut of tools to be a pragmatic emodiverse tour guide. But more than anything it’s Annie’s fearless resolution (this is the meaning of Doughty) that enables her to hold down the law enforcement and head of customs roles at Laura Miers Air.
GEORGE HENLEY: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER/LANDING COUNCILLOR
Not long after Laura Miers Jewellery moved from Braidwood to the Gadigal (Bondi) Studio, it became clear that Laura and Annie needed someone to co-ordinate their business and lives so they could get some sleep. So in 2021, through a mutual friend, George was headhunted from her job at Dion Lee.
Having followed Laura’s story for years, she knew the philosophy well and integrated herself, her wild sense of humor and immaculate outfits seamlessly.
Since George has joined the business and taken control of the traffic, the girls’ creative ideas have had the extra time and space needed to breathe and flow.
George’s capacity to keep track of the hundreds of worlds she moves through every day while holding emotional relationships with each of them is remarkable. Having spent much time between the country (Kamilaroi) and the city (Sydney), she is particularly adaptable in her role holding council between different people from different worlds; grounding their ideas flying around her, and establishing links between them in order to arrive at a desired destination.
Having followed Laura’s story for years, she knew the philosophy well and integrated herself, her wild sense of humor and immaculate outfits seamlessly.
Since George has joined the business and taken control of the traffic, the girls’ creative ideas have had the extra time and space needed to breathe and flow.
George’s capacity to keep track of the hundreds of worlds she moves through every day while holding emotional relationships with each of them is remarkable. Having spent much time between the country (Kamilaroi) and the city (Sydney), she is particularly adaptable in her role holding council between different people from different worlds; grounding their ideas flying around her, and establishing links between them in order to arrive at a desired destination.
JEET PAVLOVIC: ROUTE-SCOUT/TURBULANCE NAVIGATOR
Even though it feels like Jeet has spent a lifetime with Laura Miers, she joined the team in 2022.
She was signed up to scout out the visual direction and now guides the laying out of pre-flight, inflight and post flight entertainment.
Jeet, who is born and based on Gadigal Country, is valued for her impeccable taste and ability to constantly throw pivotal ideas (ways forward) on the table, but also to gracefully let go in the times those ideas don’t find a home. She has also become someone the team can trust to stay calm and transparent during personal and professional emergencies. After many long flights throughout her modelling career + multiple emotional ascends, turbulences, descends and crashes, Jeet has landed at Laura Miers Air with the knowledge, skills and wisdom to instigate and navigate heavy visual journeys.
SAM MIERS: HEAVEN AND HELL BAGGAGE HANDLER
Sam has been Laura’s right hand man her whole life and vice versa. They have a balancing effect on each others personal and business decisions. In Laura Miers Air, Sam acts as a springboard and a grounding force, pushing the team to take bigger risks but to do it calmly. Working with Sam can be scary because you always know he will tell you what he really thinks, it can also be liberating as you often feel him sending your ideas.
Sam has the magic ability to collapse time and space, creating portals for those around him to deeply experience their multifaceted lives and the power to integrate these refined experiences consciously with greater understanding and agency.
Throughout his life as an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, curator and writer, he has been dedicated to handling with care all types of emotional baggage from the past, present and future.
As the space between his business and personal life gets thinner and thinner, this baggage handling always ends up spiralling into Laura Miers. To manage this requires his dedication to life long relationships with people and place; making sure both are paid, acknowledged, permitted and carried.
PALOMA VAZQUEZ: LAURA MIERS PA SYSTEM / STUDIO ROMANTICIST
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Arriving from Bundjalung as a Sydney cynic, Paloma now loves the space and air of the big city. Cycling the suburbs and devouring her mother’s romantic novels about Surry Hills in the 40s have helped her heart to belong.
Destined to continue the lineage of Surry Hills’ romantics, Paloma printed Laura Miers’ rings out and glued them in her wedding scrapbook in her early teens. By chance, she moved into the same Surry complex as Laura where they ran into each other in the lift. Laura could see she’d been dreaming of being in the jewellery industry and asked her to be her personal assistant. Now as Studio Romanticist and Manager, Paloma takes detailed care of all the love stories the business is holding at once. As the youngest member of the team, she sees relationship problems with fresh eyes. She cries over engagements as she writes her own Surry love story:
A single line of my hair wraps around his wrist,
And within his deep inhale it splits with the noise of thunder and flies into the wind.
The quest to transmute lead into gold, to transmute gold into lead.
Destined to continue the lineage of Surry Hills’ romantics, Paloma printed Laura Miers’ rings out and glued them in her wedding scrapbook in her early teens. By chance, she moved into the same Surry complex as Laura where they ran into each other in the lift. Laura could see she’d been dreaming of being in the jewellery industry and asked her to be her personal assistant. Now as Studio Romanticist and Manager, Paloma takes detailed care of all the love stories the business is holding at once. As the youngest member of the team, she sees relationship problems with fresh eyes. She cries over engagements as she writes her own Surry love story:
A single line of my hair wraps around his wrist,
And within his deep inhale it splits with the noise of thunder and flies into the wind.
The quest to transmute lead into gold, to transmute gold into lead.
MIKKA BYARUGABA: DIGITAL FLIGHT TECHNICIAN / AIR FLOW ANALYST
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Since his short flight from Aotearoa to Gadigal Country, Mikka and Laura have admired each other from afar... Mikka arrived at the Laura Miers office with an active history exploring the tensions between old & new, digital & physical.
His genius lives in his ability to create new pathways for people between said worlds, as well as create them for himself. He is just as likely to be in the middle of the bush on his bike, or CAD deep in the heart of the city.
With a love of brisk air spun from holographic fans, Mikka now has the important role of guiding the Laura Miers team on their digital flights into the future via the past.
Since his short flight from Aotearoa to Gadigal Country, Mikka and Laura have admired each other from afar... Mikka arrived at the Laura Miers office with an active history exploring the tensions between old & new, digital & physical.
His genius lives in his ability to create new pathways for people between said worlds, as well as create them for himself. He is just as likely to be in the middle of the bush on his bike, or CAD deep in the heart of the city.
With a love of brisk air spun from holographic fans, Mikka now has the important role of guiding the Laura Miers team on their digital flights into the future via the past.