May 2025, Part 1
Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them!
Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase extraordinary pieces personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Take a look. You’ll find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Bethamy Linton
Retail price: AUS$5,600
Bethamy Linton is a fourth-generation silversmith based in Western Australia, continuing a rich family legacy that helped shape the region’s early arts and crafts movement. Her practice spans both fine jewelry and larger-scale silverware, reflecting a wide-ranging and deeply honed skill set. Her designs have long been inspired by the natural world, particularly the flora of the Perth Hills—a nod to the wildflower motifs that have featured in her family’s work for generations. More recently, her creative focus has turned toward exploring themes of familial relationships as depicted in popular mythology and fairy tales.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Joyce J. Scott
Retail price: US$15,000
Joyce J. Scott is a groundbreaking artist known for revolutionizing beadwork by transforming it into a powerful medium for fine art and social commentary. Combining traditional craft techniques with bold, unflinching narratives, her intricate beadwork sculptures confront issues such as racism, violence, gender, and historical trauma. Drawing from African American heritage, feminist thought, and personal experience, Scott’s work challenges stereotypes and centers complex Black identities. Her interdisciplinary approach—spanning sculpture, performance, and storytelling—creates a deeply expressive and theatrical body of work. Widely exhibited and highly honored, including receiving a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, Scott has redefined the boundaries of craft and contemporary art.
Gallery: In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, New York, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Brian Weissman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Lin Cheung
Retail price: US$4,935
Lin’s distinctive approach to making offers a witty and poignant response to the human condition. Jewelry is both creative output and a point of reference and inspiration, with Lin frequently making work as a result of a self-reference to jewelry. Lin quotes her underlying “love-hate” relationship with jewelry as a healthy way to understand and explore a vast and diverse subject that loyally sticks close to its archetypal roots but also has the impressive ability to morph and move with the times.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, Illinois, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team name for email)
Artist: Judith Neugebauer
Retail price: US$1,895
A one-of-a-kind tourmalated quartz descends from this elegant oxidized sterling silver and 23-karat gold leaf necklace accented with white sapphires. Titled Undersea Forest, this statement piece is inspired by the vast unknown that exists deep below the ocean’s surface.
Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Martina Bucci
Retail price: €2,400, plus shipping
Asterisms are used in astronomy as starting points to find other fainter stars and constellations in the sky. An alignment of stars forms a geometric figure. “I have always enjoyed counting the stars,” states Bucci. “One can easily lose the count and start again, it is a pleasant repetition. One can go on and on, you can always add one more and more. I’ve never tired of playing this game, not since I was a child. It relaxes me, I enjoy this time. Making beads, I see so many little stars. My pieces are the translation of my human being into the navigation of the universe, they keep my gaze upwards. They are like the stars that orient the boatmen.”
Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Norman Weber
Retail price: €4,300
“When I think of jewelry,” says Norman Weber, “I remember images of gemstones and their arrangement in rows or around a center. Gemstones faceted or cut as a capuchon. To be honest, not very original. In my imagination, they start to move, merge, and change. The color is similar to that of found objects, weathered, bleached by light and unrepeatable. The original splendor is lost, perhaps still to be imagined. Perfection is contrasted with controlled chance. The rational, computer-generated form becomes fragile and is in a state of transformation. Barely noticed to slightly overstretched. Nostalgic, contemporary, or out of time? Any categorization is questionable.” Juwel #22 is one of the pieces with which Weber won the Friedrich Becker Prize in 2023.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Kajsa Lindberg
Retail price: US$1,600
Easily recognizable everyday forms are often the starting point in Kajsa Lindberg’s work. The inspiration is found both in almost insignificant small objects, as well as in strong and almost monumental surfaces and shapes. What they have in common is that we usually hardly notice them or that we take them for granted. There are thoughts about the unspoken rules of everyday life. This chain is made from a wooden folding rule. It has a full length and can be twisted two or three times around the neck.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Umeå, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Märta Mattsson
Retail price: €460
The Swedish artist Märta Mattsson’s exceptional skill at finding the balance on the edge between the beautiful and the disgusting has made her work well known internationally. “Sometimes I see beauty in things that other people find strange or are even repulsed by,” she states. “My jewelry deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion.”
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, Maryland, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Megan Kerr
Retail price: US$1,200
Megan Kerr recently graduated with a BFA from SUNY New Paltz and was the Baltimore Jewelry Center’s April artist-in-residence. She participated in the BJC’s first Graduate Exhibition and was awarded this residency as the prize for best in show. Kerr’s studio practice involves creating sculptures and jewelry that disassemble familiar and intimate forms to portray vulnerability, impermanence, and repair. The title Buckling holds dual meaning: the act of fastening, and the moment of collapse under pressure. The piece serves as a reflection of emotional processing, articulating a moment of transition and sustained tension, wherein the form no longer maintains its original integrity.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Neke Moa
Retail price: NZ$2,830
Pūtahi is a taniwha who watches the happenings of people on the mudflats between the Aparima and Pourakino rivers. The green pakohe used to make this piece is specific to this area; Tihaka is one of these beaches. The golden patina has been developed through the rugged coastal cycles blowing in from Rakiura/Stewart Island. Neke Moa (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Ahuriri, Kai Tahu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) is an adornment- and object artist working primarily with Pounamu, shell, stone, and other locally sourced materials. In 2000 she gained a diploma of design and art at Te Waananga-o-Raukawa and then furthered her studies at Whitireia NZ, completing a bachelor’s degree in applied arts in 2007. Moa has exhibited extensively throughout Aotearoa (New Zealand) and on the international stage.
Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, New York, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Ted Noten
Retail price: US$30,000
This is an exquisite example of Ted Noten’s signature acrylic compositions. Nuggets of pure gold and diamonds float around the neck so beautifully that one almost forgets the subversion of casting the precious materials in acrylic. Regarded as one of the most important figures of the Dutch design world, Noten straddles the worlds of jewelry, object design, fashion, and fine art. Artworks and jewelry by Noten can be found in countless museum collections worldwide.
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