September 2026, 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’re bound to find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Meg Nash (click the name for email)
Artist: Mélanie Denis
Retail price: US$1,595
This unique brooch by Mélanie Denis addresses themes of memory, loss, and grief. Denis’s solo exhibition at Pistachios, titled Transition, presents a body of work created over three years, crossing three territories, three inner states, and three defining moments of the artist’s life. “Created largely in Mont Bélair,” explains the artist, “a vast forested territory on the outskirts of Quebec City, Canada, the first works bear witness to a deep attachment to a place of refuge that became the setting of a rupture and a necessary departure. The dark and silent winter landscapes gradually give way to a vibrant palette where the signs of a transition toward a new territory begin to emerge. The final phase, Renaissance, marks the arrival in an urban environment chosen in accordance with my values and my reclaimed freedom. The colors soften, the landscapes become more human, and creation rediscovers a space of trust, gentleness, and free expression.”
- Grief and Passing in Jewelry Art, The Art of Preservation and Letting Go, Fanni Nagy’s master’s thesis, explores works made in response to a different kind of loss. Find it here
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: John Ecuyer
Retail price: NZ$320
Born and now living in Whangarei, New Zealand, John Ecuyer began creating turned wooden objects in 1988, which led to his exploration of other techniques and materials including stone, bone, and cast glass, with a special interest in the relationship between his work and the art of healing, both past and present. Collections of Ecuyer’s work are held in New Zealand’s Auckland War Memorial Museum, Dowse Art Museum, and Whangarei Art Museum. He also has work in the Detroit Institute of Art and the Maoli Wood Art Museum, in Taiwan, and has exhibited in Los Angeles, Detroit, Korea, and Australia.
- Learn more about emerging and established artists who use wood as the primary medium for jewelry and adornment in the gallery guide for Out on a Limb: Contemporary Wood Jewelry, a 2012 exhibition at Racine Art Museum
Gallery: Wearable Art Museum (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click the director’s name for email)
Artist: Marty Ornish
Retail price: $1,200
Zero waste/Loved to death/Nothing is new—these are all daily mantras from the sewing-machine studio of the notorious maker Marty Ornish. MartyO is an established artist known for her politically charged, thought-provoking museum exhibitions using fabric as material (yes, I said that) and meaning as substance. No better example of this was her 2021 Social Security exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art, in Oceanside, CA, US. This lavender-haired artist has the best spectacles in the room, wielding her intention to make “examples” of others’ waste and turn them into new wearable sculpture—as seen in the On the Fringe collar series as part of the California Fibers The Languages of Fiber exhibition at the Huntington Beach Art Center, in Huntington Beach, CA, US, through October 24, 2026.
- Sabina Tiemroth’s 2015 exhibit, It Self, at Jewelers’Werk Galerie, showcased textile work that blurred the line between apparel and jewelry. Find an interview with the artist here
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: Gésine Hackenberg
Retail price: €940
The Kitchen Glass Brooches are part of the Still-lives Collection. “The Still-lives Collection can be seen as a contemporary interpretation of 17th- and 18th-century Dutch still-lives,” states Gésine Hackenberg. “Those paintings usually depicted items of everyday life that were economically and emotionally significant for people of that time. I cut vintage glassware and rearrange the pieces into new compositions, new still-lives. It is a perfect translation from three- to two-dimensional shapes, from down-to-earth glasses and bowls to precious jewellery. The body of the wearer takes on the role of canvas as it were… In this collection I also pay homage to the history of European glass manufactures and their designers, especially those in The Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia.” The piece on the left in the photograph is available.
- Many jewelry artists who work with glass have honed their craft at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, an artistic and educational glassworking facility that offers five-week, all-expenses-paid residencies. Hear about five American artists who did so here
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, 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: AU$1,360
The SOS Graffiti neckpiece is from the 2026 series Just Saying. Linda van Niekerk writes, “In a world gone mad, where every aspect of life—political, social, financial, environmental—no longer makes sense, I began making works to vent, to rage, and to poke fun at all the insanity. Protest with a smile.”
- Nicolas Christol makes jewelry that points its eye at global political and environmental instability. He runs Espace Borax with Mélane Zumbrunnen. Find an interview with the Swiss gallerists here
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: Märta Mattsson
Retail price: €3,200
With her collection *Glow against the Dark,* Märta Mattsson continues her exploration of insects and the ideas they can convey. Vibrant and colorful, these new pieces assert their distinctiveness with confidence.
- Saskia van Es reviewed CODA’s Animalia—Collection of Splendor & Pastel exhibition, intended as a tribute to nature and an invitation to admire its details. Find it here
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Ameli Dévé
Retail price: US$3,600
Ameli Dévé often draws upon universal symbolism and familiar forms, such as the braid. In this work, she uses pure fine silver, the softness of which allows her to shape the metal into forms that would otherwise be difficult to achieve. She stretches and pushes the material to its limit. The results allude to traditional craftsmanship while simultaneously pushing its boundaries and re-examining its classic structures. Dévé was born in the north of Sweden and is now based in Gothenburg. After completing a three-year apprenticeship in Tibet, making traditional Tibetan jewelry, she continued to study in Sweden, New Zealand, and France, and received an MFA degree in jewelry art from the Academy of Design and Crafts, in Sweden.
- Angela Hennessy uses braids and synthetic and human hair in her jewelry-adjacent work. Victorian mourning jewelry was an early influence during Hennessy’s jewelry studies. Victorian mourning jewelry kept the deceased physically present and connected to the living by using their hair to create objects of remembrance. Find the article, by Rebekah Frank, here
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: Gitte Nygaard
Retail price: £1,930 GBP (without tax)
The brooch Dogger Bank II could be worn showing either one side or the other. It is made of textiles clasped together elegantly by a silver oval ring. It’s such an original work, titled after the large, shallow sandbank in the North Sea, since like the sea, it remains porous; carrying memory not as image, but as material presence. Gallerist Yael Reisner has no doubt the Danish/Dutch artist Gitte Nygaard is one of the most important European art jewelers in contemporary jewelry, though so far not recognized internationally, as such, probably due to opting not to have an Instagram account. A profoundly talented, nevertheless modest and serene artist.
- Seulgi Kwon also makes jewelry inspired by the sea. Find some of her work here
Gallery: In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Brian Weissman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Kerianne Quick
Retail price: US$1,500
Oh Well is a collection of leather and titanium necklaces and brooches that draws from historical and contemporary forms of body armor, including bibs, utility wear, aprons, and tactical vests. Titanium “wound” inserts, informed by slow-motion projectile testing and forensic images of high-caliber bullet wounds, transform evidence of bodily trauma into objects of adornment while exploring notions of manufactured protection and a false sense of security.
- Learn about Kerianne Quick’s key fobs here
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: Alexander Blank
Retail price: 680€ (excluding VAT)
Hands are tools that make things happen. They cook, build, clap rhythms, make fires, kill, and heal, and nowadays they swipe and press all sorts of buttons. It seems like they are mostly intended to carry out what the brain has planned, but there is another story. What if the hands had enough? What if they wanted to break free and create a new reality? In Alexander Blank’s latest work, we get a glimpse of this speculative evolutionary path where hands and fingers become independent and free—become themselves.
- Fingers also wear rings. The Rings That Rock exhibition brings together a selection of diamond rings to show how these small objects tell big stories. Watch “AJF Live: Rings that Rock at the DIVA Museum,” here. It features guests Bella Neyman (NYCJW founder and AJF board member) and Catherine Regout (curator, DIVA)
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Mia Chen (click the name for email)
Artist: Teresa Shields
Retail price: US$6,700
Pomponner—French for dolling oneself up, the preparation for being looked at—is part of the I Feel Seen collection. Teresa Shields works in felted wool, handiwork traditionally assigned to women, and her subject is the female gaze: the experience of being watched and judged your whole life without quite being seen. This piece is long and tiered, structured enough to hold its own architecture. Hilma af Klint is a touchstone throughout the collection, including her color logic: blue for the feminine, yellow the masculine, pink for love. Hidden magnetic clasps fasten this necklace around the neck with ease, and magnetic wall-mounts let it be elegantly displayed when it isn’t worn.
- Helena Lehtinen works with handiwork traditionally assigned to women, stitching beadwork to vintage textiles. She was our guest on AJF Live with Hibernate. Watch it here
Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kassadi Williams (click the name for email)
Artist: Carin Jones
Retail price: US$350
Carin Jones focuses on historical specimens, such as vintage tins, replacing traditional gemstones with found objects set in finely crafted precious metals. This juxtaposition challenges traditional notions of value and grandeur, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between material worth and artistic merit.
- Find our interview with gallerist Heidi Lowe here
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: Evelyn Kline
Retail price: US$1,450
Evelyn Kline is a metalsmith and enamelist from the mountains of North Carolina. She holds a BFA from Appalachian State University and has completed residencies at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and the Baltimore Jewelry Center. Of this work, Kline writes, “I’ve always loved going to the grocery store. In my last year of college, I discovered the Ingles near my apartment had remained unrenovated since the early 2000s and therefore served as a sort of portal to memories of my hometown Ingles when I was a child. During a time full of change, I found comfort in visiting the store and being transported to another time.”
- Check out our interview with Aaron Decker, who uses enamel extensively in his work
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: 750€, plus shipping
This brooch is Catarina Silva’s most recent work for her solo exhibition Jardin d’agrément, part of the third Lisbon Jewellery Biennial program. Jardin d’agrément imagines a lush, utopian garden inspired by the gardens of paradise and the gardens of the gods found across cultures. Here, humans, animals, and plants coexist beyond hierarchy, in a shared ecology of reciprocity and wonder. Jewelry becomes a living constellation of symbols: apples, unicorns, flowers, birds, and Marian imagery evoke knowledge, care, fertility, and transformation. At the heart of the exhibition, the snake emerges as a guardian rather than a tempter—a symbol of wisdom, regeneration, and the continuous cycle of life. Rather than a lost Eden, Jardin d’agrément is a poetic fiction that invites us to imagine new ways of inhabiting the world, where coexistence is not an ideal, but a living practice.
- Barbara Paris Gifford covered the 1st Lisbon Jewelry Biennial here
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