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Geraldine Fenn, Colonial Comeuppance XI: Supérieur, 2024, brooch in silver, vintage portrait, glass, printed tin, steel pin, photo courtesy of the artist

Artist and Gallerist Geraldine Fenn Wins the Inaugural 2025 AJF Solo Exhibition Award

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Lynchburg, Virginia, US—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce that the largest art jewelry cash award in the US, the AJF Solo Exhibition Award, has been awarded to the South African artist Geraldine Fenn, a contemporary jeweler who started Tinsel Gallery, in Johannesburg, in 2006.  The grant will support an exhibition in which Fenn […]

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Erica Bello, Horny Signet, 2025, ring in oxidized silver, onyx, size 7, ¾ x ½ inch, photo courtesy of the artist

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March 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

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Warwick Freeman, Hook Hand Heart Star, 2024, photo: Sam Hartnett

Vocabulary of Forms

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I am sitting at the table in the shared office at Objectspace where all the staff sit together in one open room that infamously has no natural light. The architects who refurbished the 1980s industrial unit that we call home gave the building a striking steel and light façade. It is the singular architectural feature

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Hanna Liljenberg, Symbiosis, 2021, brooches in paper, brass, steel, lacquer, each 9 x 6 x 2.5 cm, photo: Four

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March 2025, Part 1 Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels so 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

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Have You Heard

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March 2025 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and items of interest to the jewelry community depends on YOUR participation. If you’re a member of AJF at the Silver level or above, you

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Sofia Bankeström, Fly, 2018, brooch in juniper wood, silver, 3 ¾ x ¾ x ¾ inches (95 x 20 x 20 mm), photo: Four

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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

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Have You Heard

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February 2025, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and items of interest to the jewelry community depends on YOUR participation. If you’re a member of AJF at the Silver level or

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Julia Obermaier, image courtesy of the artist. Obermaier says, "For me a disco ball is a sign of pure love ... Always moving, sparkling, exciting, [it creates a] good mood and has millions of facets."

Love Drawings 

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Is it really so obvious what love is? Love is associated with a whole range of emotions, some of them complete opposites: from serenity to passion, from harmony to fiery arguments.   We constantly see jewelry creations but rarely the drawings of the makers. Yet jewelers are more than fabricators of baubles. They’re artists as well,

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Jane Bowden, Woven, 2024, ring in titanium, sterling silver, top 2 x 1 ⅛ inches (50 x 30 mm), 2 ⅜ inches (60 mm) tall, photo: artist

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February 2025, Part 1 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

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Have You Heard

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February 2025, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and items of interest to the jewelry community depends on YOUR participation. If you’re a member of AJF at the Silver level or

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Leonie Westbrook, More and Less, 2023, neckpiece in sterling silver, Monel, 37 ⅜ inches (95 cm) long, photo: Jane Bowden

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January 2025, Part 2 We all could use a treat right now. Besides, 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

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