Henriette Schuster, Conglomerates, 2016, rings, silver, blackened silver, gold, largest 35 x 25 x 20 mm, photo: artist Now in its second iteration, the Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery is an international biennial award founded in memory of the life and legacy of its namesake, Australian artist Mari Funaki. In this interview, Katie Scott, […]
Anna Lindsay MacDonald, brooch, 2014, sterling silver, acrylic, freshwater pearl, enamel, 90 x 90 x 15 mm, photo: artist Anna Lindsay MacDonald, a jewelry artist based in Canada, explores a multitude of paradoxes. MacDonald examines the reverence for tradition and allure of luxury versus the disdain for commercial pandering to the masses. She explores concepts
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Exhibition view, Conceptual Jewellery, 2011, Mākslas galerija Putti, Rīga, Latvia, photo: Līga Ērkšķe Leaving Colombia to train for a highly successful career in international business before enrolling at the Massana school in Barcelona, Nicolas Estrada brought new life and light to the world of art jewelry through his entrepreneurial endurance, his alliance with the world
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Gillion Carrara in the library of the Arts Club of Chicago (cropped), photo: Quinn Wharton Gillion Carrara walks an exciting career path that zigzags between fashion and metalsmithing: She teaches the one, practices the other, and in her pieces she seems to actively resist fashion’s “commitment to risk, subversion and irregular forward movement,”[1] preferring instead
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Sharon Church, Watching Juniper, 2016, pendant neckpiece, Styrofoam, paper clay, acrylic paint, mica, polyurethane coating, oxidized sterling, diamond rondel, handmade chain, detachable pendant: two balls: white = 54 mm diameter, dark = 67 mm diameter, diamond rondel = 9 mm diameter, chain and clasp, exclusive of pendant = 708 mm, photo: Ken Yanoviak My first
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Ame Gallery, photo: Andy Kwan Former interior architect Anna Cheng was all set to enter the family business selling traditional fine jewelry in the competitive Hong Kong market. But fate intervened. While traveling through Europe and the US, Cheng was exposed to contemporary art jewelry, fell in love with it, and the rest, as they
Wall at Susan Beech’s house, work by (just jewelry, left to right): Hanna Hedman, Vera Siemund, Nancy Worden, Christoph Zellweger, Pierre Cavalan, Heather White van Stolk, Anthony Roussel, Susanne Klemm, Marilyn da Silva, Maria Phillips, Jasmin Winter, Hanna Hedman, Lori Talcott, Kiff Slemmons, photo: John White I have known Susan Beech for about 30 years.
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Exterior and interior view, Gallery O, Seoul, Korea, photo: Gallery O Founded in 2001, Gallery O is a leading gallery in South Korea for local and international contemporary jewelry. Its founder, jewelry artist Miwha Oh, holds degrees in metalsmithing, museum studies, and gemology, and has applied her extensive education to raising the visibility of contemporary
Patina Gallery sits in the historic museum district of Santa Fe, 2015, photo: Peter Ogilvie Eighteen-year-old Patina Gallery was an early champion of European studio jewelers and has been particularly adept at creating cultural synergies with the vibrant local scene in New Mexico: For the second year in a row, their summer exhibition features work
Alternatives Gallery, view of the façade, Rome, photo: Andrea Lombardo Alternatives Gallery, located in the historical center of Rome, has met the challenge of selling to a relatively conservative clientele by being remarkably proactive in promoting itself and the field on a national and international level, and by launching no-gram, the first online gallery devoted
Placement, a collaboration between art jewelers and street artists, May 2015, Gallery at Reinstein|Ross, New York, photo: Andrew Schloss Bella Neyman is the director of the Gallery at Reinstein|Ross in New York, which specializes in contemporary jewelry. With a background in arts administration and several critically acclaimed exhibitions under her belt, she mixes writing and curating,
Janna Syvänoja, Untitled, 2014, necklace, recycled paper, steel wire, 250 x 220 x 75 mm, photo: artist Janna Syvänoja is a Finnish artist who, by a slow and meditative process, creates art jewelry from recycled paper. Using such fragile material, she is able to create depth in form, each slice meticulously layered by hand. Often
