September 2025, Part 2
These days, we all could use a treat. And it feels so good to get ourselves a terrific piece of art jewelry 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’re bound to find a fantastic piece you can’t live without! (Contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
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: Florian Weichsberger
Retail price: 940€
Florian Weichsberger spends a lot of time thinking about the relationship between us and different objects. In addition to the practical function, there is often an emotional or spiritual connection to them. We fill an object with our wishes and hopes. It should bring us luck, the fulfillment of our dreams, or healing.
In his latest body of work, Weichsberger explores everyday objects. These things are all around us and we’ve become so used to them that we no longer consciously notice them, but they’ve become an integral part of our everyday lives. Weichsberger uses their characteristics to incorporate symbols or messages. The former function is removed and a new one is added, honoring the object and giving it a new reason to be close to us … or even on us.
Gallery: Sienna Patti, Lenox, MA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sienna Patti (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jacqueline Lillie
Retail price: US$2,900
A softened square—rounded at the corners—reads like a modern frame on the body. A subtle “tweed” texture sprinkled with confetti color keeps it playful, while sleek matte segments add order and poise. Made by Jacqueline Lillie, a Vienna-based pioneer of contemporary beadwork whose work sits in major museums, it shows her signature clarity: precise, elegant, and quietly bold. It sits cleanly on a lapel, black dress, or winter knit, and instantly pulls an outfit together—a distinct, versatile piece to anchor a collection.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: J. Diamond (click the name for email)
Artist: Sarah “Spee” Parker
Retail price: US$145
Sarah “Spee” Parker is a craft artist based in Richmond, VA, US. She received her MFA from the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA at Appalachian State University, in Boone, NC, US. Parker’s sculptures, installations, and jewelry focus heavily on Americana, punk, DIY, anti-containment, and questioning authorship through the lens of craft. Parker is part of the Radical Jewelry Makeover Artist Project. She is a recent teaching fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University. She was a recipient of the Baltimore Jewelry Center Emerging Artist Residency. She has exhibited regionally and has been a member of several DIY exhibition spaces in both Boone and Richmond.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, Canada (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Silvie Altschuler
Retail price: CAN$475
Silvie Altschuler’s free and unpredictable jewelry breaks away from conventions, exploring a boundless creative universe where the use of unconventional materials, such as silicone and cardboard, redefines preciousness and questions the very nature of jewelry.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the name for email)
Artist: Lisa & Scott Cylinder
Retail price: US$4,400
This piece is part of Lisa & Scott Cylinder’s Calliope exhibition, at Gravers Lane Gallery—a dazzling spectacle of one-of-a-kind necklaces, brooches, and objects inspired by the whimsy of the circus, the spin of the carousel, and the mythic spirit of Calliope herself. With fantastical creatures created from brass instruments and playful fabrications, each piece evokes youthful wonder, metaphor, and magic—where craftsmanship meets performance in a celebration of imagination.
Gallery: Objects Beautiful, London, UK (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Yael Reisner (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jessica Winchcombe
Retail price: GBP£3,000, plus VAT
A large, surprisingly soft pewter/leather necklace, rhythmically folded to evoke the feel of a ceremonial mayoral chain—a symbol of importance and presence. This piece explores the many paths we take before discovering our perfect rhythm. Finding that rhythm and harmony is something to wear proudly.
Winchcombe is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist based in Queenstown, NZ. Her jewelry has gained international recognition, particularly for her unusual necklaces, folded colorful canvas, or pewter soft leather, with different added precious parts. So far, she has exhibited in Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands.
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: Julia Maria Künnap
Retail price: 3,690€, plus shipping
The Estonian artist Julia Maria Künnap is a master at carving natural stones. Her work plays with the idea of the “persistence of a stone and the disappearance of a moment.” At Galeria Tereza Seabra, she presents a series of very elegant and wearable delicate and intemporal jewels, with the meticulous hand she has accustomed the public to.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Joel Fitzwell
Retail price: NZ$1,920
Joel Fitzwell is a goldsmith based in Whakatu, Nelson, NZ. He works primarily with precious metals and is a process-based maker who enjoys exploring traditional techniques such as construction, repoussé, granulation, setting, and engraving to craft intricate, one-of-a-kind pieces. The series 35X, of which Flora is just one iteration, acts as a physical sketchbook, capturing Fitzwell’s exploration of techniques and ideas in tangible form. The size in this series (1 ⅜ x 1 ⅜ inches [35 x 35 mm]) is a self-set parameter in which he emphasizes the importance of materials, process, and craftsmanship within his ongoing artistic practice.
Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jana Machatová
Retail price: 1,950€
Jana Machatová’s work is highly significant for the way it transforms the brooch—traditionally an adornment—into a medium of memory, identity, and social critique. Through the integration of archival imagery and feminist statements, Machatová bridges the personal with the political, creating poetic yet powerful wearable works that confront conventional narratives. Her practice expands the expressive potential of jewelry and redefines it as a vital tool for dialogue on history, gender, and human rights.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Leonie Westbrook
Retail price: AUS$190–$260
Leonie Westbrook, on this series: “My ongoing works explore the rich crafting traditions in my family history, responding to an innate resourcefulness and a search for lost usefulness. Growing up on farms and outback stations, we had our own organized ‘dumps’ for rubbish. Old metal parts and components were stored in sheds lined with tins and jars, waiting to be reused. In 2007, I visited my Great Uncle Harry at my great grandparent’s property and took an image of a long pile of discarded cans among the trees. The newest cans were at one end, while the older ones gradually disintegrated into the dirt, becoming part of the landscape.”
Gallery: In The Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click the name for email)
Artist: Jolynn Santiago
Retail price: US$900
Inspired by piles of grass clippings, artist Jolynn Santiago fuses silver wire fragments within a hand-carved, ring-shaped graphite mold to create a visible cycle of renewal from the debris. This unique process sets Santiago apart as she experiments with new materials and techniques in her ongoing investigations of settling dust and the accumulations which mark the gentle passage of time. Santiago holds an MFA in metal from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and her work has been exhibited internationally. This series will be featured in her upcoming solo exhibition at Brooklyn Metal Works.
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: Cristina Filipe
Retail price: 5,000€
With the Lights Out, It’s Less Dangerous pays tribute to five writers and a songwriter. “Their names are engraved on the handles,” states Cristina Filipe, “and their sentences, the first ones I read when I randomly opened each one of their books and a CD taken from my bookshelves, were engraved on the blades of the knives.” They are:
- “A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use,” —Sylvia Plath.
- “Somos sempre assim: o tempo vai passando, e tudo se nos volve saudoso – sofrimento, dores até, desilusões,” —Mário de Sá-Carneiro.
- “die Narbe der Zeit tut sich auf und setzt das Land unter Blut,” —Paul Celan.
- “At length she came home one night after one of these saunterings and mounted to her bed-room. She took off her laced coat and stood there in shirt and breeches looking out of the window,” —Virgina Woolf.
- “Subi ao alto, à minha Torre esguia Feita de fumo, névoas e luar,” —Florbela Espanca
- “With the lights out, it’s less dangerous,” —Kurt Cobain
The case that holds the knives has a lid divided in two parts by a cut that allows the gaze to separate the handle from the blade and to focus only on one of the parts one at a time. This allows the viewer to deconstruct its primordial function and emphasize that a handle without a blade does not cut and a blade without a handle cannot be handled. This work was made for the traveling exhibition Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels, curated by Norman Cherry and Dauvit Alexander.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Doerthe Fuchs
Retail price: US$5,900
This extraordinary necklace reflects the Munich-based artist Doerthe Fuchs’s deep love of the sea and the oceans. The great ships known as windjammers were named for the sounds produced when the wind whistles between their sails and plucks at their many ropes like the strings of an instrument. The act of “rigging” a ship, its complete equipment of masts, sails, and ropes, suggests an elaborate adornment, a concept that resonates within the world of jewelry.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the name for email)
Artist: Nanna Obel
Retail price: US$6,595
Denmark-based artist Nanna Obel has a narrative approach to art jewelry. This incredible handmade tiara is featured in Pistachios’s current exhibition, Things Unsaid, which is on view at the gallery before traveling to Munich Jewellery Week in 2026. As part of Obel’s Do You See Me Now? series, which “is about seeing, recognizing and respecting each other for who we really are,” this unique headpiece is made with sterling silver, enamel, photographs, mirror foil, and acrylic lacquer. “By using mirrors, the viewer will be able to see themselves while looking at the piece. So who do you really see?”
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