On Provide – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

August 2024, Half 1

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 significant accomplishment
Commemorate the start of a brand new relationship or the top 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 rejoice and exhibit artwork jewellery. Our bi-monthly On Provide sequence permits this in depth community of worldwide galleries to showcase extraordinary items personally chosen to tempt and encourage you. Have a look. You’re sure to discover a incredible piece you merely can’t reside with out! (Please contact the gallery straight for inquiries.)

Bryan Parnham, Veneer #4 — Bryan Parnham, *Veneer #4,* 2024, brooch in oxidized silver, automotive primer, stainless-steel, 3 ½ x 2 ¾ x ¼ inches (88 x 70 x 7 mm), picture by the artist

Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Bryan Parnham
Retail value: US$800
Continually reflecting on his work and his alternative of creative disciplines, Bryan Parnham efficiently ventured into the world of jewellery, profitable AJF’s 2024 Younger Artist Award. He has developed a photoengraving method that allows him to discover totally different notions associated to images, one other of his passions. Extra particularly, these items are, partly, a response to concepts of picture idea written by thinkers. For instance, Barthes describes the interpretation of {a photograph} when it comes to “studium”—the curiosity of the picture in relation to the tradition of the viewer)—and “punctum”—the impregnable ingredient that touches the viewer. Parnham experimentally presents the “punctum” dissociated from the “stadium.” He provides a element, right here within the type of a logo, with out the broader context of {a photograph}. As soon as the punctum has been worn, the context turns into the wearer. The wearer then turns into his personal studium, his personal intentional context.

Catarina Silva, He Has the Most Tender Eyes — Catarina Silva, *He Has the Most Tender Eyes,* 2023, necklace in silver, chocolate wrapping paper, aquamarine, nail lacquer, 15 x 2 ½ x ⅛ inches (38.5 x 6.3 x 0.3 cm), picture: Pedro Tropa

Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Catarina Silva
Retail value: €1,800, plus transport
“All of it begins with the encounter. The concept of amor fati appears to be current, the love of future, that describes an angle the place one sees every part that happens in life, together with struggling and loss, nearly as good or, a minimum of, as essential. It’s characterised by the acceptance of the occasions or conditions that happen in life[. And] maybe humor, which can also be current in these items, generally is a sure type of love of future, a manner of implicating and assuming oneself in a particular state of affairs or denouement: the idea and the overcoming. It appears to me that humor generally is a pacifying agent and works as affirmation on the authorship and on the selection of the contours of our personal story. As soon as once more, it is rather evident that, for Catarina Silva, that could be a primordial car to really feel, expertise, and aesthetically translate life.” —Carolina Quintela

Dierra Jones, Money in the Bank — Dierra Jones, *Cash within the Financial institution,* 2024, brooch in purple powder coat over copper, sterling silver, glass seed beads, thread, leather-based, stainless-steel pin, 2 x 3 ¼ inches (51 x 83 mm), picture courtesy of the artist

Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Heart, Baltimore, MD, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Dierra Jones
Retail value: US$285
“Place and storytelling are necessary parts in my work,” says Dierra Jones. “Completely different silhouettes and colours enable these tales to return to life. Cash within the Financial institution enabled me to journey to my childhood to a time the place my household and I’d watch wrestling in my dad and mom’ bed room as a type of leisure. This brooch represents these reminiscences, in addition to symbolizes how ladders or stairs can be utilized to realize an finish objective or attain success.” Jones is an artist, jeweler, and trainer residing in Savannah, GA. She was just lately an artist-in-residence on the Baltimore Jewellery Heart, the place she created this piece.

Joe Sheehan, from the Tilted Perspective series — Joe Sheehan, from the *Tilted Perspective* sequence, 2024, pendant in Marsden Pounamu, oxidized sterling silver, 1 ⅝ x 1 ⅛ x ¼ inches (42 x 30 x 5.5 mm), picture: Michael Couper

Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Joe Sheehan
Retail value: NZ$840
Joe Sheehan studied modern jewellery at Unitec within the mid-Nineties, and since then has labored in carving studios all through New Zealand. His curiosity within the historic, geological, and cultural context of stone has led to in depth on-site discipline work and exploration each in Aotearoa and abroad. The area between adornment and artifact has given him a large discipline inside which to function. Sheehan’s artworks usually twist the acquainted and embrace on a regular basis objects comparable to a working mild bulb, a cassette tape, and batteries meticulously carved from Pounamu (New Zealand jade). In his most up-to-date sequence, titled Tilted Perspective, Sheehan explores the world of optical illusions the place two-dimensional objects seem 3D.

Tatjana Giorgadse, Untitled, 2022, earrings in silver, agate, wooden, 2 ⅜ x 1 x ¾ inches (60 x 25 x 20 mm), picture courtesy of the artist and Galerie Door

Gallery: Galerie Door, Marienheide, Netherlands (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Tatjana Giorgadse
Retail value: €355
Tatjana Giorgadse’s artwork is recognizable by its playfulness and freedom. Giorgadse mixes heavy supplies with a wealthy and eventful historical past—comparable to stones—with mild supplies that, in a sure timeline, have “simply come into play”: plastics. Giorgadse has the ability to make sturdy and thrilling compositions, reshaping previous and current.

Joan Parcher, Color Study Earrings — Joan Parcher, *Colour Examine Earrings,* 2024, recycled plastic, 14-karat gold, silver, ¹¹⁄₁₆ x ¹¹⁄₁₆ x ¹¹⁄₁₆ inches (17.5 x 17.5 x 17.5 mm), picture courtesy of Ornamentum

Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, NY, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Joan Parcher
Retail value: US$1,040 for every pair
Joan Parcher is an icon of the American jewellery scene. These Colour Examine Earrings can be found in numerous colours. “My objective was to ‘make one thing out of nothing,’” says Parcher. “I collected 97 totally different colours of recycled trash plastic. I take advantage of this plastic to assemble earrings. Every earring is a seven-sided hole kind with an association of six totally different colours. Earring pairs are left and proper—so every earring is a mirror picture of its mate. This mathematical expression determines that I can get 494,086,184 pairs of earrings in several colour preparations and combos from my ‘nothing’ trash plastic. No two pairs of earrings would be the similar.” All earrings come on a 4 ½ x 4 ½-inch (114 x 114-mm) sq. of skinny MDF board. The boards are painted in colours that distinction or complement the colour of the earrings. The again of every board has a “hanging slot” for a nail. The earrings themselves are an round ¹¹⁄₁₆-inch (17.5-mm) dice, plus the discovering. They’re fabricated from recycled plastic, stainless-steel, and sterling silver, with 14-karat gold posts. They’re very mild and comfy.

Sabine Müller, Ring — Sabine Müller, *Ring* in oxidized sterling silver, rutilated quartz, measurement 7.5, picture: Pistachios

Gallery: Pistachios Modern Artwork Jewellery, Chicago, IL, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: The Pistachios Group (click on the crew’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Sabine Müller
Retail value: US$1,295
That includes a large faceted rutilated quartz with distinctive inclusions, this oxidized sterling silver ring is one-of-a-kind. Wealthy textures fantastically complement one another. And with an open design, this ring is as comfy as might be.

Kath Inglis, Skin Deep — Kath Inglis, *Pores and skin Deep,* 2024, bangle in hand-cut and dyed PVC, stitched with sterling silver, numerous sizes, approx internal 2 ½ x 2 ½ x 1 ¼ inches (65 x 65 x 33 mm), picture: Jane Bowden

Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Kath Inglis
Retail value: Every, AUS$200
Kath Inglis’s Pores and skin Deep bangles reference a sequence made for her very first exhibition, If the Shoe Suits …, held at Zu design after her commencement from the South Australian College of Artwork, in 2000. That group present of latest graduates was the place Inglis bought her very first piece, a Pores and skin Deep bangle. This new sequence of bangles showcases strategies Kath has developed over 24 years, most just lately printing cellophane onto the PVC. The multicolored Pores and skin Deep bangles are a part of the Zu, Me & JCB exhibition at Zu design that coincides with Zu design & Jane Bowden, at JamFactory. For 27 years, Zu design has bought and proven the work of 332 makers. The present exhibition showcases a few of their South Australian makers and the way they got here to promote at Zu design.

Helena Lehtinen, Necklace — Helena Lehtinen, *Necklace,* 2024, classic textile, glass beads, 20 ½ x 12 ½ x ⅜ inches (52 x 32 x 1 cm), picture: artist

Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Helena Lehtinen
Retail value: US$4,000
Helena Lehtinen describes her work as looking for which means within the meaninglessness. This isn’t only a typical Finnish mentality however a attribute, human, and humorous manner of working by considered one of Finland’s most energetic and revered jewellery artists. With nice dedication and attribute visible language, she has taken her place on the worldwide stage, and her work has a excessive collector’s worth.

Michael Zobel, Untitled, 2000, pin/pendant in platinum, 21-karat pink gold, 0.25 cts diamonds, 13.5mm Tahiti pearl, ½ x 4 inches (13 x 102 mm), picture courtesy of Aaron Faber Gallery

Gallery: Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Patricia Kiley Faber (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Michael Zobel
Retail value: US$2,975
It is a signature of German jewellery designer Michael Zobel and his grasp goldsmiths, who had been capable of compose the effective stripes of platinum fused to high-karat pink gold in an in any other case stark vertical terminating at one finish with a Tahiti pearl.

Seth Michael Carlson, Mantis Ring — Seth Michael Carlson, *Mantis Ring,* hand fabricated with 18-karat yellow gold, tourmaline, picture courtesy of the artist

Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Chloe Le Pichon (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Seth Michael Carlson
Retail value: US$3,990
The Mantis Ring is the last word assertion of empowerment, and it’ll make sure you begin a dialog! The ring is completely hand crafted utilizing conventional goldsmithing strategies, and it includes a trillion-cut inexperienced tourmaline. When worn, the ring provides the looks of climbing the finger. It may be oriented in both route. Sculptural, one-of-a-kind, and constituted of sustainably and ethically sourced supplies.

Kayo Saito, Seed Pod — Kayo Saito, *Seed Pod,* 2023, brooch in oxidized silver, carnelian, inches (80x20x20 mm), picture courtesy of Galeria Reverso

Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Kayo Saito
Retail value: €1,800
“Carnelian’s orange might be seeds,” says Kaiyo Saito. “The seeds for the fruits from a earlier life and a place to begin for the subsequent technology. A celebration for the achievement of 25 years of Reverso Gallery and now cheering for the subsequent a long time to return.”

Veronika Fabian, Hook 11 — Veronika Fabian, *Hook 11,* 2024, necklace in brass, 5 ½ x 9 x ¾ inches (140 x 230 x 20 mm), picture courtesy of 4 Gallery

Gallery: 4 Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Veronika Fabian
Retail value: €1,300
This sequence of jewellery by Veronika Fabian is made up of flattened chains that create drastically enlarged jewellery clasps. Clasps play an necessary half in jewellery. They maintain the piece collectively, connect it to a physique, make it wearable. However usually it’s only the perform that’s observed, whereas the clasp itself is hidden. Fabian’s items give them their rightful place within the highlight. They encourage respect and radiate weight—standing that additionally rubs off on the wearer. Fabian has a background as a threat analyst within the monetary business, and her work touches on problems with capitalism and its influence on on a regular basis life and id.

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