September 2025, Part 1
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: 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$2,370
Aaron Brown started his career with bone and wood carving, before moving to architectural model making, then on to commercial sculpting, jade carving, jewelry design, and art sculpture. His deep love of nature and the land he lives in is reflected in his work. “I love the challenge of representational or realistic carving and the goal of capturing a small sense of the subject’s personality,” he says. “This ring and the others in the series celebrate Aotearoa New Zealand.”
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$2,000
This dramatic necklace by artist Jolynn Santiago is the result of thousands of hand-tied silk knots. Much like Santiago’s artworks focusing on settling dust, this necklace displays how the tiny accumulates into the monumental as the artist seeks to visualize the passage of time. Santiago holds an MFA in metal from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and her acclaimed work has been exhibited internationally. This work will be featured in her upcoming solo exhibition at Brooklyn Metal Works.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: J. Diamond (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Ben Cooke-Akaiwa
Retail price: US$225
Ben Cooke-Akaiwa’s work explores principles of Japanese design through material, form, and surface. Complex surfaces and patterns are contrasted with simple forms to create balance. Color, pattern, and texture are key elements in the conception of Cooke-Akaiwa’s jewelry. He integrates steel with precious metals, enamel, and gemstones to create wearable objects that are both inviting and contemplative. Cooke-Akaiwa was a three-month resident artist at the BJC in the fall of 2020.
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$5,200
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: 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: 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: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the name for email)
Artist: Emily Rogstad
Retail price: US$560
This piece is part of the gallery’s recent exhibition, In Motion. In Motion was an exhibition of contemporary kinetic jewelry and sculpture by studio artists. Reactive and interactive jewelry that moves with you, these pieces dance, sway, spin, and shake—shapeshifting before your eyes. Featured artists applied their well-honed craft skills to breathe life into each element, transcending beyond static form.
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: 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$16,500
Three black-and-white strands loop and knot together, forming a graphic rhythm that drapes effortlessly. Designed by Jacqueline Lillie—the Vienna-based pioneer of contemporary beadwork whose work sits in major museum collections—this piece carries her signature: precise, architectural, and quietly bold.
The pattern is modern yet timeless. It sits comfortably, drapes beautifully, and instantly sharpens anything from a T to evening wear. This is a foundational piece—distinct enough to be noticed, versatile enough to wear often, and made with the kind of intention that holds value over time.
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: Huimin Zhang
Retail price: GBP£11,320, plus VAT
This ring is one of the highlights of Zhang’s Mammary Gland series, which promotes the idea that even brief lives should bloom like summer flowers, radiating beauty and energy. Zhang developed her own wire-drawing tools to efficiently craft 22-karat gold threads as thin as 0.07 mm, believing the fusion of techniques such as Chinese filigree and European gold embroidery is crucial for preserving traditional craftsmanship.
A shooting star in London, Zhang keeps collecting awards—the Gold Medal for Wire Innovation, in 2025, and the Goldsmith’s fair winner, in 2024, pointing at this beautiful series. Zhang lives in Beijing and London.
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$675
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: 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: Jimena Rios (+ Iris Eichenberg)
Retail price: 1,968€, plus shipping
Jimena Rios, in collaboration with Iris Eichenberg, made a series of jewels, offerings with the earthy energy of Virgo, for the Rings of Saturn cycle of exhibitions, curated by Halo (Catarina Silva and Marta Costa Reis) at Lisbon’s Gallery Tereza Seabra during 2025/2026.
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: 1,000€
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.
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