Mac Art Jewellery was established in the early 1990s in the picturesque town of Bellingen on the Northern New South Wales coast. Mac has been in the jewellery business since leaving school and has gradually become more and more enamoured with the opal coming out of the Queensland ground. Over the years, Mac has been inaugurated into the trade via many various and wondrous paths. His beginnings wer
e in a well respected Melbourne jewellery store known to all and sundry as Dunklings. He polished the glass counters, amongst other menial tasks, and this glass polishing has stood him in good stead in the years to come. A number of successful businesses followed a move from the city to the country. Glass counters have still featured highly in his life for the purpose of display. Initially, displays an eclectic array of semi-precious stones and rocks, as well as amethyst vugs and fossils, and jewellery. After close to 40 years, Mac has perfected his techniques and his loves and his passions and now zeroes in on a specific stone. A specific, little known, rare, unique and beautiful stone from the South West of Queensland which has exquisite colour set in an ironstone background. This opal differs from the Lightning Ridge and Coober Pedy variety and is today coming into its own. This is not to say that Mac has a love for opal from anywhere in Australia, his display features the beautiful black opal from Lightning Ridge and the exclusive white opal of Coober Pedy, where, for Mac, it all began. Come into Bellingen to see our exclusive opal display.
