Marie-caroline Locquet views jewelry more as something conceptual. In her work, she aims to redefine jewelry, presenting it not as an object standing in for wealth, power, or status, but as a provocation. She produces restraints and defensive weapons, each one being, she states, “a unique wearing experience that explores our shared fragility.” Through implications
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Bernhard Schobinger and Dorothea Prühl came to jewelry from opposite sides of a divided Europe. Schobinger came of age in Switzerland’s postwar avant-garde, while Prühl developed her practice in East Germany, first as a designer and later as an influential teacher at the art school in Halle where she had trained. In 1962, the year
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Open to jewelry artists of any age and nationality, the Linda Peshkin Solo Exhibition Award offers $20,000 to support the creation of a solo exhibition to advance an artist working in the field of art jewelry. Geraldine Fenn won the inaugural award, and she will serve as one of three jurors for the next cycle.
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AJF joined South Africa–based artist Geraldine Fenn, inaugural recipient of AJF’s Solo Exhibition Award, for a look back at the research, experimentation, travel, collaboration, and making that culminated in her solo exhibition, Geraldine Fenn: Dispatch from the Colonies, at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, in Montreal. Fenn takes us inside the development of the exhibition, which explored
Corrina Goutos has been a finalist for the Young Artist Award three times! A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, she later did a residency at the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation. Goutos has given lectures at DIVA Museum, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and for SNAG. Originally from upstate New York, she now
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We traveled to Montreal June 12–14, 2026, to celebrate the opening of Geraldine Fenn: Dispatch from the Colonies, shown at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h. This show was the culmination of AJF’s inaugural Solo Exhibition Award, which Fenn won in 2025. It explored power dynamics linked to the European colonization of Africa. Below, you’ll find short interviews—two
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Jewelry made by artist who have focused their main practices in other areas is often referred to as artist jewelry. These makers, and how they approach jewelry, opens up productive conversations for anyone involved in/with jewelry. A primary one: is jewelry a field, a format, a discipline, something else, or some amalgamation? These makers bring
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Melbourne has a gallery space run by maker, thinker, writer, and curator Meredith Turnbull. Alta Forma opened in 2023. It shows not only contemporary jewelry but works that expand on what jewelry is and can be. At Alta Forma, audiences engage with a wide range of object-based and visual art practices where crossovers are encouraged. Vicki Mason:
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Zhipeng Wang is swimming in jewelry accolades! In the recent past, the Chinese artist has taken the BKV 1st prize, first place for the Montebello Award, and the Preziosa Young Design Competition Award. This year, he won the Herbert Hofmann Prize—and that, only two years after graduating with a master’s degree from the Academy of
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In April, Ted Noten opened his exhibition, Thirty-six Years on the Move / aka Route 36, at Galerie Marzee. In it, he presents one or several objects from each of the 36 years of his creative career, removing the hierarchy of “important” and “unimportant” projects. He placed them all together on a long strip of
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“I like it. What is it?” This is the question Atty Tantivit asks herself when she encounters a piece of jewelry that draws her in. She’s often attracted to jewelry that resists immediate understanding, pieces that are complex, conflicting, or quietly provocative. They do not reveal themselves at once. Instead, they spark curiosity. Interestingly, when she wears
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The idea that an engagement ring should be a diamond solitaire is the greatest marketing stunt in history. Diamonds have never been merely precious stones—they have served as symbols of authority, marked political and family alliances, and sealed intimate commitments. “Rings That Rock,” at DIVA museum, in Antwerp, Belgium, brings together an exceptional selection of diamond rings
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