Will Hanigan

Will Hanigan's life has been spent in what’s called the “traditional pearling environment” diving, harvesting and working along the shores of an 80-mile stretch of beach in Australia's remote North-West. 

His family comes from 3 generations of pearl divers and pearl farmers; who cultivate, grow and harvest these magnificent gems that find their way onto both men and women around the world and have been treasured since the ages of Egyptian pharaohs. 

While many of the Australian pearls are those you might see in high-end fashion magazines and prestige jewelers around the world, Will adapts his own sensibility to create a new style of pearls, reflective of a new generation who values their beauty but not necessarily married on a traditional strand or setting.

On his mother's side, his Aboriginal ancestors were the traditional owners of the region around Broome. Pearl shell was used in daily in hunting and ceremony and traded for millennia between coastal Aborigines and along the spice routes of Asia.