February 2025, Part 2
More than ever, we all could use a treat! What an uplifting feeling to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for yourself 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 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: Catherine Buddle
Retail price: AUS$2,400
“I chose Catherine Buddle’s Silver Anemone with Ni neckpiece this month as she is one of the artists in Radical Textiles,” states Zu design’s gallerist, Jane Bowden. The show is currently at the Art Gallery of South Australia until March 30, 2025. Buddle collects antique threads and uses a very fine 0.4-mm crochet hook to hand-crochet her forms. The silver sequins in this particular piece are crocheted into place as the form grows. The finished piece has a lovely shimmer as the sequins move and reflect light.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the name for email)
Artist: J Taran Diamond
Retail price: US$920
J Taran Diamond is a metalsmith, craft educator, and internationally published scholar on the subject of jewelry, and based in Baltimore, MD, US, where she is currently a teaching fellow and studio manager. We often imagine our identities and bodies as fixed, final versions of ourselves. In reality, though, we are continuously shedding old aspects of ourselves and incorporating new ones. Wet-a-Bed is a reflection on this continuous shift between states. The removal of a surface reveals a new surface underneath it; this new surface is not meaningfully more true to the object, only one that is next for the object.
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: Sofia Bankeström
Retail price: €250
Wood is a material that is both dead and alive at the same time. Even though the tree has stopped growing, it continues to change through Sofia Bankeström’s processing, and is affected by conditions such as humidity and light. The dynamics of the material reflect the constant transformation in nature and in our own lives.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the name for email)
Artist: Petra Class
Retail price: US$4,645
Stunning ethically sourced emeralds are set in 22-karat gold and collaged together to create a classic pair of earrings that are timeless in design. With 18-karat gold post backs, this pair by Petra Class is your next heirloom piece. Class’s designs explore color and texture, blending European artisanal tradition with California’s organic, nature-inspired ethos.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Chloe Le Pichon (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Natalie Lowe
Retail price: US$990
A flying suburban house picked up by a gust of wind, with an upside-down picket fence, as if wings, trailing along with it … this evocative piece suggests a number of imaginative narratives. This lightweight brooch can also be perched on its custom-made wall stand, to decorate the house as well as adorn the body. Natalie Lowe’s work contemplates longing, privacy, intimacy, and interiority. Over the course of her career as an artist, she has won multiple awards in juried exhibitions, has exhibited work nationally, and has been the recipient of multiple grants and fellowships. She is currently a visiting teaching professor of metals & jewelry and foundations at Ball State University.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Felieke van der Leest
Retail price: US$2,800
The title of this humorous pair of ear clips is Peek-a-Puma. They are made of plastic toy pumas, gold, and textile. During her career, Felieke van der Leest has developed a personal style involving issues such as the environment, animal care, and social behavior, always with a funny but serious twist. She is a jewelry artist from the Netherlands, based in Norway since 2008. In 1996, she graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie Jewellery Design, in Amsterdam. Her work can be found in many private and public collections around the world.
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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: Catarina Silva
Retail price: €1,600, plus shipping
Catarina Silva presents a new romantic body of work with intricate beading, weaving, and hand-painted flowers inspired by Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium poetry:
“The Sun—just touched the Morning—
The Morning—Happy thing—
Supposed that He had come to dwell—
And Life would be all Spring!
She felt herself supremer—A Raised—Ethereal Thing!
Henceforth—for Her—What Holiday!
Meanwhile—Her wheeling King—
Trailed—slow—along the Orchards—
His haughty—spangled Hems—
Leaving a new necessity!
The want of Diadems!
The morning—fluttered—staggered—
Felt feebly—for Her Crown—
Her unanointed forehead—
Henceforth—Her only One!”
Gallery: Salotto SPJ, Milan, Italy (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Josefine Spjeldnaes (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Giovanni Corvaja
Retail price: €41,000, plus VAT
These gold earrings showcase the celebrated technical and poetic mastery of renowned goldsmith Giovanni Corvaja. Composed of hundreds of tiny squares of delicate gold wire, each one meticulously soldered into place within a solid frame, the pendant’s design is an intricate web of evenly spaced lines that fill the entire form. The use of niello drops accentuates the perception of transparency and volume. This piece exemplifies Corvaja’s innovative approach to working with gold, transforming the material into a breathtaking work of art that blurs the line between structure and fluidity. Corvaja’s work is represented in prestigious museums and collections globally.
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: Kira Yurina
Retail price: €580
Kira Yurina is a Japanese artist who has developed her work between wall objects and jewelry that she describes not as accessories, but as small installations that enhance feelings. To express her interest from this perspective, Yurina created the term “objewelry,” which encompasses the vague existence of a boundary between artistic objects and jewelry. This brooch highlights her meticulous craftsmanship, which skillfully incorporates materials such as teak and acrylic.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Aaron Brown
Retail price: NZ$890–NZ$980
Aaron Brown makes work that reflects his deep love of nature—birds, leaf forms, insects, and nature-inspired abstract patterns. He enjoys the challenge of representational or realistic carving and the goal of capturing a small slice of the subject’s personality in stone. “Although I enjoy the whole natural world, flora and fauna from home is always special,” states Brown. “When I carve species native to New Zealand I like to make a further connection by using stone from NZ: Pounamu, NZ Agate, Greywacke, etc. Making native species out of native stone just fits.” Native to NZ, the morepork owl is known for its haunting, melancholic call. This sound gives it the Māori name “ruru.”
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