December 2025, Part 2
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’re bound to find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Libby Cooper and Jo Anne Cooper (click the gallerists’ names for email)
Artist: Asagi Maeda
Retail price: US$16,000
Wear a dream, a city, a story—Asagi Maeda meticulously constructs sculptures that are also jewelry. Fashioned from wood, Plexiglas, resin, enamel, silver, gold, and semiprecious and precious stones, the work is engraved and painted by the artist, with thoughtful narratives about family and society. Maeda’s work is held in important public collections including The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (Delray Beach, FL, US); Museum of Arts and Design (New York City); and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA, US).
Gallery: Wearable Art Museum (click the institution’s name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click the director’s name for email)
Artist: Teri Brudnak
Retail price: US$4,800
As the 21st century explodes in so many ways, artists feel compelled to sound the alarm. Red Alert is a sculptural neckpiece that flashes red light as a serious warning. The design elements echo science fiction film props from the mid-20th century. The design is futuristic, and made by hand of recycled materials. It is art jewelry of this time, and impossible to ignore.
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: Mary Curtis
Retail price: NZ$900 each
“My work is a quiet celebration of the biosphere,” states Mary Curtis. “As I wander through life, my eye is constantly drawn to the subtle changes I see, marking time, not by the calendar but by nature. A leaf, a seed … these are small moments that fascinate me, elemental forms that represent the passage of time and that humans have been adorning themselves with for thousands of years. These Seed to Leaf pendants explore and describe the small moments of three iconic New Zealand trees, the Pohutukawa, the Kauri, and the Puriri. My practice has a strong focus on sustainability. I’m interested in the life of the materials I use, where they come from, and where they end up. All materials are sustainably sourced with by-products from materials and processes recycled. I love to forage; Muka (fiber from flax) is sourced and dyed from plants from my street and the wood is reclaimed from demolished buildings or fallen trees.”
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: Marion Delarue
Retail price: 615€
Part of the exhibition Rings of Saturn 9/12 (Sagittarius). “Rooted in the symbolism of Sagittarius,” states Marion Delarue, the artist, “the work draws from the figure of the centaur, a creature hovering between human and animal. Crafted from natural recycled fur, echoing the tactile presence of the horse’s body, the pieces evoke through their shapes the duality and intimacy of merging forms. Worn on the body, they become metaphors for blurring identities.”
Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, NY US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Tanel Veenre
Retail price: US$250
As part of Ornamentum’s Holiday Earring Show, the esteemed Estonian jewelry artist Tanel Veenre has given Ornamentum numerous edition pieces—a striking scale, lightweight, and at a great price point. Many colors are available. Please contact Ornamentum for information.
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: Ketli Tiitsar
Retail price: £1,990 GBP, plus VAT
A beautiful wood brooch that works elegantly on one’s coat or jacket and projects a remarkable presence. Ketli Tiitsar mainly uses wood taken from her childhood home and great-grandparents’ garden in Estonia. She works mostly with personal memories, while contemplating how much of them are not individual, but clearly local and generational. Tiitsar’s jewelry belongs to public collections including the Collection of Metal Art Department, at Estonian Academy of Arts; Art Museum of Estonia; Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design; Röhsska Museum of Art and Craft; and private collections. Since 1994, she has participated in more than 100 exhibitions in Estonia and abroad.
Gallery: Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click the name for email)
Artist: Vershali Jain
Retail price: US$950
This ring set by artist Vershali Jain was inspired by the kaleidoscopic iconography of Indian truck art. Vernacular, anonymous, and yet immediately recognizable, these designs wear their hearts on their tailgates. Jain’s ring set aims also to capture the spirit of the artists who freehand paint these trucks over long hours, becoming an ode to this unsung artform. Created for New York City Jewelry Week 2025, this work was on view at Brooklyn Metal Works’s jewelry and object gallery, Specific Gravity. Jain holds an MA in jewelry and silversmithing from Edinburgh College of Art, and has exhibited internationally to acclaim.
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: Linda van Niekerk
Retail price: AUS$660
The This Way (Christmas) ring, by Linda van Niekerk, takes its tree-like form as a quiet reference to the Tasmanian wilderness, where the rare Huon pine is sourced. The sculptural form appears to float above the hand, supported by a double finger ring that gives the piece its distinctive presence. A subtle way to wish everyone happy holidays!
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: Hannah Tomoko
Retail price: US$1,495
Belgian artist Hannah Tomoko addresses themes of loss and longing through her use of sterling silver. Tomoko’s innovative designs are inspired by filigree jewelry, with a contemporary twist on the traditional technique. Made entirely out of sterling silver, this flexible statement necklace has clean lines and a fresh aesthetic. The interior expands, allowing for the piece to be easily worn.
Gallery: Galerie MiniMasterpiece, Paris, France (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Esther de Beaucé (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Constance Guisset
Retail price: 2,700€, plus VAT
The Aimant necklace, designed by the famous French designer Constance Guisset, defies gravity and plays with levitation. It consists of a perfectly geometric gold circle with two magnets at its center, attracting each other without touching.
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: Ascendant Jewelry/Melissa Hampton
Retail price: US$770
These earrings are a beautiful mix of oxidized sterling silver with shining yellow gold. The opals add a beautiful sparkle to these unique pieces.
Gallery: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Danni Schwaag
Retail price: 395€, includes shipping
The title of Danni Schwaag’s current exhibition, Twisted Coagulation, refers to the material galalith,* a casein material, and its properties, as well as to her state of being, the recurring questioning of (artistic) creation. According to Schwaag: “Enduring a crisis, accepting, questioning, being stuck, and wriggling out, new paths can open up. Perhaps ‘twisted’ thinking is the most honest form of clarity, because it forces us not to flee in a straight line and because clarity sometimes only comes when one dares to be confused. Where something twists, tension arises. A thought that wraps itself around itself can become an insight—or a knot.” Find yourself entangled in these wonderful knots. Schwaag studied with Professor Theo Smeets at Hochschule Trier’s department of gemstone and jewelry design, in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Her work can be found in many private collections and in the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, Germany.
*Galalith, the “milky stone,” is one of the very first plastics—it contains milk.
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: Isabel Wang Pontoppidan
Retail price: 3,240€
“Your finger is a slug; it wants to upgrade,” states the artist. “You can call me your architect, engineer, contractor, and real estate agent. This opulent snail house is the perfect fit for one. Despite being hollowed out, she still weighs a whopping 50+ grams in silver. Sturdy, ornamental, complete with a blue gemstone at her crown and a state-of-the-art home security system—the perfect house.” Isabel Wang Pontoppidan is a Chinese Danish artist, writer, and jewelry maker based in Amsterdam. She approaches jewelry as a living practice that bridges body, language, and material, exploring hybridity, identity, and ornament through a performative lens.
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: 440€
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 fulfilment of our dreams, or healing. In his latest body of work, Weichsberger explores everyday objects. Things that are all around us and that we have become so used to that we no longer consciously notice them, but that have 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: Espace Borax, Vevey, Switzerland (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Nicolas Christol (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail price: US$500
Black powder embodies the structural violence of capitalism, reducing life to commodities and sustaining racist, sexist, classist, and colonial domination. Central to colonial conquest, warfare, and mining, it exemplifies Achille Mbembe’s necropolitic: a power that organizes exposure to death, evident in contemporary police and military violence. Here, black powder blows up silver cylinders (and rings), materializing inherited colonial violence symbolized by gold pins, while also recalling struggles that fractured seemingly immovable regimes, and questioning the necessity of self-defense against state violence. Each piece in the series is titled after a “less lethal” model of grenade.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Caroline Broadhead
Retail price: 6,400€
This necklace is made of small glass beads that are threaded with thin thread into links which together form a chain. For more than 50 years, Caroline Broadhead has been concerned with objects that meet and interact with the body. Classical jewelry and materials inspire her, and the jewelry pieces she makes become collectors’ items. Public collections that hold examples of her work include the Dallas Museum of Arts; the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Broadhead held the positions of Jewellery and Textiles Programme Director and BA Jewellery Design Course Leader for nearly 10 years at Central Saint Martins, London, until her retirement in 2018; she is now professor emerita. Broadhead gave a lecture at the Pinakothek, in Munich, during Schmuck 2025, and was one of the finalists of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2025.
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: Brooke Marks-Swanson
Retail price: US$3,200
Repetition, dynamism, connections, and tactility are all part of Brooke Marks-Swanson’s creative process. For several years, she has pursued this research by experimenting with and exploring different materials that respond to her visual language.
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: Elena Karpilova
Retail price: US$290
Elena Karpilova is a designer, art critic, and curator based in Portugal. In her work as a maker, she uses leftover plastic, found objects, and beads. She graduated from a Belarusian art college with a degree in painting, and from Belarus’s University of Culture and Arts with a degree in comparative art studies. She is the founder and head of the Architectural Thinking School for Children.
Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Heidi Lowe or Kassadi Williams (click the names for email)
Artist: Yuri Tozuka
Retail price: US$225
Yuri Tozuka’s Blue Drop Studs are featured in Heidi Lowe Gallery’s annual Earrings Galore exhibition, a juried exhibition of a rich and diverse array of earrings made by emerging and established studio jewelers. Each artist’s unique approach to the earring format is represented in a cohesive grouping of six pairs of earrings. Tozuka’s work is often inspired by the forms, patterns, and relational intricacies that are found within nature and man-made systems.
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: Teresa Milheiro
Retail price: 370€
“This necklace was created from a series of tin beetles, which were originally children’s toys manufactured in Japan,” says Teresa Milheiro. “One aspect of my work, throughout my career, has been re-creating jewelry from found objects. I’m interested in the stories behind the objects and the idea of adding value to something that already existed. Some of the places where I find objects of curiosity are flea markets, and it was in one of them that I came across a box full of these toys which made a clicking sound through an iron plate embedded in the back. When I saw them, my imagination began to buzz with ideas, I immediately imagined a necklace and how I could create a system that would allow the beetles to be joined around the neck, maintaining their original appearance. The rubber rings allow it to be quite flexible and adapt to the neck.”
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