November 2023, Half 2
There are such a lot of causes to buy artwork jewellery…
- Have fun that hard-earned promotion
- Honor a once-in-a-lifetime event
- Pay tribute to a serious accomplishment
- Commemorate the start of a brand new relationship or the tip of 1
- Pounce on the proper piece to spherical out a side of your assortment
- Or put money into a deal with for your self—simply because
Artwork Jewellery Discussion board’s worldwide gallery supporters have fun and exhibit artwork jewellery. Our month-to-month On Supply collection permits this intensive community of worldwide galleries to showcase extraordinary items personally chosen to tempt and encourage you. Have a look. You’re certain to discover a implausible piece you merely can’t dwell with out! (Please contact the gallery immediately for inquiries.)
Gallery: Galerie Viceversa, Lausanne, Switzerland (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: ilona Schwippel (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Katrin Feulner
Retail worth: 1’400 CHF
Katrin Feulner is a German jewellery artist who works primarily with discarded and picked up metal objects, making jewellery that dissolves its earlier, resistant associations and types new ones. The work with the title Cycle can also be comprised of discovered objects, however they focus on one kind: the circle. With the repetition and the rotation of this particular kind, Feulner creates rhythm and stability with out an apparent starting and ending. The method of working by hand play a central position in her items, as a result of for Feulner the act of working is simply as necessary because the end result.
Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Ute Kolar
Retail worth: €510
Ute Kolar is impressed by nature and its most important types to create works of unusual formal lightness, by means of a intelligent play of volumes and voids, mild and shadow, planes and repetitions. Her creations are each poetic sculptures to put on and gadgets to admire in and of themselves.
Gallery: Jewelers’werk Galerie, Washington, DC (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Ellen Reiben or Brandy Norris (click on names for e-mail)
Artist: Jorge Castañón
Retail worth: US$720
Endearing, whimsical, heartfelt, poetic, and highly effective are among the phrases that describe Jorge Castañón’s work. Castañón—a bricoleur of kinds—makes use of discovered wooden and different supplies to create his expressive, sculptural items. “In my work, I mix jewellery and carpentry methods. I assemble with delicacy many supplies which I discover, particularly wooden, small discarded items. They arrive again to have a second likelihood, to inform a brand new minimal story. I give them a brand new voice,” he explains. Castañón communicates the fragility of his fellow people and the world round them and makes an pressing plea for individuals to look at and mend themselves and handle one another. Like his chosen supplies, Castañón sees the worth in issues which might be weathered, damaged, used, and deserted, and the necessity for rescue and rebirth.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Alexander Clean
Retail worth: 1575€
Alexander Clean’s works are tough to explain. They’re humorous, stunning, scary, and sometimes have a sting of irony. Because the viewer, you are feeling unsure, or perhaps challenged. Or perhaps each, for the reason that two typically observe one another. Nicely, you’ll simply should go for the experience—wherever it takes you.
Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, NY (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Melanie Georgacopoulos
Retail prince: US$4,900
These gorgeous earrings by Melanie Georgacopoulos are a preview to the artist’s introductory exhibition at Ornamentum. In a refined twist on the basic gemstone, every aspect is meticulously crafted of mother-of-pearl. Hanging, valuable, and refined. Extra photos can be found.
Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Marília Maria Mira
Retail worth: €375, plus transport
“Similarity doesn’t make equal as a lot as distinction makes completely different.” Marília Maria Mira is an artist who’s tough to suit into a gaggle, model, or present. It may very well be mentioned that her work is made together with her complete physique and all the abilities she has on the time she materializes it, her head is sort of a firework, and her soul like a conductor line of stimuli and impulses. Her presence within the area of jewellery can also be not a linear path, however one which has been found and experimented with, till it has reached the maturity that’s revealed at this time.
Gallery: Gallery Loupe, Montclair, New Jersey (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Patti Bleicher (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Luci Jockel
Retail worth: US$800
Many of the items on this collection function honeybee wings. To assemble these works, Luci Jockel devised a brand new medium—an amalgam of jewellery and textile—which she phrases “bee wing lace.” Made out of precise honeybee wings, this revolutionary materials references the patterns and buildings utilized in cloth lace and quilts. The work on this collection pays homage to the labor carried out by honeybees.
Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Lin Cheung
Retail worth: €2,800
This bracelet, Glam Rock—Jaded, explores our relationship with the issues we care about and imagine in, and the way we take care of them by means of the language and supplies of jewellery.
Gallery: Platina Stockholm AB, Stockholm, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Sofia Björkman (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Janna Syvänoja
Retail worth: US$1,600
Janna Syvänoja is thought for her jewellery comprised of recycled printed paper, similar to newspapers, maps, catalogs, and outdated books. They’re wealthy by their previous, carrying alongside sure locations and unintentional meanings. This materials additionally provides the items their particular person exterior and inside ornament, their ornamentation. The artist decides how the outcomes must be, however ultimately every items take a form of its personal. When sure fashioned parts begin to observe one another and discover their rhythm within the making, the miracle occurs. It’s a gradual, a meditative, and a really pure course of. Past the language of the fabric, there may be a further actuality, the knowledge that refers to communication between individuals—messages and expressions. A bit of jewellery is worn for a similar function.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: The Pistachios Group (click on title for e-mail)
Artist: Heather Guidero
Retail worth: US$5,625
Heather Guidero’s work is well recognized by her use of sturdy shapes and motion. With every handmade hyperlink on this necklace, an arch of brilliant sterling silver sits excessive above sturdy rectangular frames. The three-dimensionality of this necklace creates a distinction in look because the wearer strikes and turns. The clasp on this necklace is seamlessly built-in into the design.
Gallery: Zu design, Melbourne, Australia (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Angela Giuliani
Retail worth: Particular person earrings from AUS$595
The Mismatched earrings collection was created by Angela Giuliani for our exhibition Thought of—having been considered rigorously. With Giuliani’s particular person earrings, the wearer is invited to decide on simply how mismatched they want their earrings. Why not put a big round earring with a smaller oval stud? The types mimic the settings she makes for her items with gems, stunning types in their very own proper.
Gallery: Galerie Door, momentary pop-up in Heusden, Netherlands (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Maria Hees
Retail prince: €225
Lately, there was a metamorphosis in Maria Hees’s work. Utility worth is now not paramount. The picture and uniqueness are actually extra necessary. Stacks of skinny coloured layers of porcelain are rolled—and thus deformed, turning into roughly clear—which produces a end result that isn’t completely predictable. Whether or not it turns into a brooch or a wall object, every object is exclusive. Maria Hees has reinvented herself, mille fois …
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click on title for e-mail)
Artist: Nik Hanton
Retail worth: NZ$200
Nik Hanton has created a typeface to discover the reductionist notions of “sure” and “no” utilizing 3D printing with a plant-based filament and hand ending. Her response to those ideas is meant to mirror on the essential human significance related to these phrases. There are few phrases which might be so definitive, concise, and clear of their which means. It’s her thought that these phrases are on the very center-point of all human communication. Hanton accomplished a bachelor of utilized arts, majoring in modern jewelry, from Whitireia NZ in 2015. She presently lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, Montreal, Canada (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click on gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Despo Sophocleous
Retail worth: CAN$2,240
Time, place, reminiscence, and motion are necessary themes all through Despo Sophocleous’s follow, and basic to those investigations is the physique. By way of a follow knowledgeable by strolling, documenting, and dealing with discovered supplies, the artist engages immediately together with her environment. After working with planed sheets of kiln-dried wooden in her earlier works, Sophocleous grew to become invested in a want to search out instruments and supplies that may very well be moveable and adaptable and thus got here her investigation of wooden carving from discovered broken or discarded tree branches collected throughout her every day walks. Both storm-fallen or discarded at demolition websites, these branches discover continuity to their story somewhat than being fastened on the level the place their story ends. For every specimen, Sophocleous paperwork the date, tree kind, and geographical location of her discovering, and these coordinates turn into the title of every ensuing jewellery object.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click on title for e-mail)
Artist: Demitra Thomloudis
Retail worth: US$500
Demitra Thomloudis is a studio jeweler and an affiliate professor on the Lamar Dodd Faculty of Artwork. In her work she pushes and performs with scale, placement, supplies, and kind to seize sides of the locations we reside, go to, and discover. Her work reveals the consideration of website throughout the assemble of jewellery and creates the chance to look at points of place, id, worth, and materials signal techniques. This piece is on view on the Baltimore Jewellery Middle as a part of the exhibition Location Companies, a three-person present that includes works by herself, Motoko Furuhashi, and Kerianne Fast.
Gallery: Museum of Craft and Design Museum Store, San Francisco, CA (click on the title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Ken Irish (click on title for e-mail)
Artist: Saoirse Byrne
Retail worth: US$300
Saoirse Byrne made this necklace of silk chiffon which she hand-dyed utilizing Osage orange wooden salvaged from a Native American bow-making class. The material was then splinted collectively and woven by hand into cordage, which was then doubled-over and woven once more into cabling, creating a powerful singular strand from items of a gentle, light-weight cloth. It’s lengthy sufficient to put on doubled, tripled, and even quadrupled—for quite a lot of appears to be like.
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