On Provide – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

Could 2024, Half 1

There are such a lot of causes to buy artwork jewellery…

Rejoice 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 top of 1
Pounce on the proper piece to spherical out a facet of your assortment
Or spend money on 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 intensive community of worldwide galleries to showcase extraordinary items personally chosen to tempt and encourage you. Have a look. You’re sure to discover a implausible piece you merely can’t stay with out! (Please contact the gallery instantly for inquiries.)

Yong Joo Kim, Singular Addition of Spatiality No. 3 — Yong Joo Kim, *Singular Addition of Spatiality No. 3,* necklace, oxidized sterling silver, Velcro® model hook and loop fasteners, roughly 27 inches (68.6 cm) lengthy, picture: artist

Gallery: Pistachios Modern Artwork Jewellery, Chicago, IL, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: The Pistachios Crew (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Yong Joo Kim
Retail worth: US$4,095
Velcro® model hook and loop fasteners are dyed, lower, and layered collectively by hand to create this sculptural assertion necklace. On the core of Yong Joo Kim’s sculptural artwork observe lies her distinctive technique of making use of strain and weight to her chosen materials. This method not solely visualizes the invisible sense of strain and weight she feels, but additionally turns into a transformative technique of creation, shaping kinds which might be unpredictable, even to her.

Brooke Battles, Japanese Painting Brooch — Brooke Battles, *Japanese Portray Brooch,* 2024, brooch, sterling silver, enameled copper, 2 ½ x 1 ¾ x 0.3 inches (64 x 44 x 8 mm), picture courtesy of the Museum of Craft and Design

Gallery: Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Ken Irish (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Brooke Battles
Retail worth: US$400
Bay Space artist Brooke Battles is impressed by nature, structure, the female spirit, and the human type. She strives for every of her items to, she says, “look like an expensive buddy who, for some particular and maybe indiscernible motive, captures a coronary heart and lives on there.” Sterling silver body round enameled copper. One lengthy arced wire to hold the pin in your lapel, just like a portray.

Svenja John, Marputo — Svenja John, *Marputo,* 2022, brooch, polycarbonate, nylon, high quality pigmented acrylic paint, 5 ⅜ x 3 x 1 inches (137 x 75 x 26 mm), picture: Catarina Silva

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: Svenja John
Retail worth: €2,400, plus delivery
“I reply sensitively to my surrounding world and its adjustments,” states Svenja John. “I prolonged my formal alphabet…” Since 1994, the artist has labored with Makrofol® polycarbonate and computer-aided chopping strategies to supply particular person components for her creations. After manually re-working and coloring, the components are remodeled into complicated, geometric items of knickknack. It’s a mixture of high-tech and hand craftsmanship achieved in a playful, pure method, with laptop designs and designs created utilizing paper and pencil; additive manufacturing strategies alongside paintbox and paintbrush; and the precision of commercial water-jet know-how coupled with the exact use of hand recordsdata. This glorious piece is a part of John’s solo present, Tensor, on view at Galeria Tereza Seabra till Could 17, 2024.

Octavia Cook (Cook & Co), A Vulgar Show of Wealth — Octavia Prepare dinner (Prepare dinner & Co), *A Vulgar Present of Wealth,* 2007, necklace, acrylic, silver (pins), 18-karat gold, 10 ⅞ x 11 ⅜ x 2 ⅜ inches (275 x 290 x 60 mm), picture: Michael Couper

Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Octavia Prepare dinner
Retail worth: NZ$4,250
“This neckpiece was made for my solo present, Accoutrements for the Entitled (2007),” states Olivia Prepare dinner, “wherein I inserted myself (as Prepare dinner & Co) into the world of born royalty, questioning the necessity to ‘win’ such objects as trophies or mayoral chains when you could possibly simply purchase [them]. Amongst these illusions/delusions of grandeur, A Vulgar Present of Wealth places the basic solitaire engagement ring to disgrace by its scale. If [the] measurement of a stone (even a pure acrylic one) is proof of affection, we’ve a winner—particularly should you purchase it for your self!” Prepare dinner graduated with a bachelor’s in 3D design in jewelry from Unitec Institute of Know-how, Auckland in 1999. Since then, she’s exhibited extensively in each public and supplier galleries worldwide.

Hanna Liljenberg, Flora Curiosa — Hanna Liljenberg, *Flora Curiosa,* 2024, neckpiece, metal, silver, paper, seed instances, acrylic paint, lacquer, 24 ¾ x 9 ½ x 2 ⅜ inches (630 x 240 x 60 mm), picture: artist

Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Sofia Björkman (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Hanna Liljenberg
Retail worth: US$4,000
With a background as a painter, Hanna Liljenberg makes use of paper or clean metallic sheets as a place to begin for her paintings. As a jeweler, she folds the fabric—which calls for consideration—into voluminous ornamentation that adorns the physique. The delicate sharpness necessitates adaptation to what you’re carrying, thereby emphasizing the significance of being current. Her new physique of labor, with the title Flora Curiosa, is much more curious and mysterious. She portrays nature in complicated type, appropriately and as artwork can describe it.

Ildikó Dánfalvi, Jungle Series — Ildikó Dánfalvi, *Jungle Sequence,* 2024, brooch, textile, copper, Japanese glass beads, plastic beads, felt-tip pen, 4 x 9 ⅞ x 1 inches (100 x 250 x 25 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: Ildikó Dánfalvi
Retail worth: €995
Confetti—A Celebration of Life is the title of Ildikó Dánfalvi’s present exhibition at Galerie Door. This extraordinary artist, who lives and works in Budapest, Hungary, makes use of an exceptionally big selection of supplies, strategies, and kinds. In her wearable artworks, you possibly can learn tales about previous and current, about custom and individuality, about magnificence and safety. With these brooches from the Jungle Sequence, Dánfalvi affords us protecting amulets, her love of nature, and childhood reminiscences within the look of sentimental fantasy creatures fabricated from hand-sewn and embellished textiles—a feast for the attention and an ode to creativeness.

Judith Hoyt, House Brooch — Judith Hoyt, *Home Brooch,* discovered metallic, copper, 1 ⅞ x 2 ⅜ inches (48 x 60 mm), picture courtesy of Gravers Lane Gallery

Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Judith Hoyt
Retail worth: US$440
Judith Hoyt studied on the State College of New York, New Paltz below the tutelage of Robert Ebendorf, an internationally acknowledged artist recognized for reworking discarded discovered supplies into coveted objects and physique adornment. For the previous 4 many years, Hoyt has been rummaging and gathered outdated patinated metallic, wooden, broken books, roadside particles—something that speaks to her and whispers hints of a previous life and goal, markers of time.

Lauren Simeoni, Count by Colours — Lauren Simeoni, *Depend by Colors,* 2024, neckpiece, recycled plastic, polyester thread, 42 ½ inches (108 cm) lengthy, hyperlinks ¾ inches (20 mm) in diameter, picture: Jane Bowden

Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, 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: Lauren Simeoni
Retail worth: AUS$400
Depend by Colors, in pinks, is from a sequence by Lauren Simeoni that was created in response to Zu design’s exhibition In Full Color, and these items are tremendous colourful! Simeoni has manipulated plastic paint pen cartridges, forming beads then threading them to type neckpieces that spotlight the wonder that may be present in discarded objects. There’s something intriguing within the maker’s combos of colours and the lightness of those daring items. Once they aren’t worn, they appear fabulous displayed on the wall.

Margit Jäschke, Amethyst Druse and Silver Flower Brooch — Margit Jäschke, *Amethyst Druse and Silver Flower Brooch,* 5 x 2 inches (127 x 51 mm), picture courtesy of Mahnaz Assortment

Gallery: Mahnaz Assortment, New York, New York, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Adrienn Banyai (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Margit Jäschke
Retail worth: US$1,590
An beautiful instance of Margit Jäschke’s work from a sequence of flower brooches courting to 2015. Whereas Jäschke considers herself an artist, not a goldsmith, the stem of this “blossomed” amethyst druse and silver flower brooch is skillfully textured to imitate the ridges of a stalk. Jäschke is proficient in mixing nontraditional supplies with metals, usually utilizing contrasting parts to create lovely and soulful compositions. Primarily based in Germany, Jäschke (born 1962), an educator herself, attended the Burg Giebechenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design, in Halle, Germany, the place she studied within the sculpture division’s well-known jewellery program with masters Renate Heintze and Dorothea Prühl.

Mirei Takeuchi, Untitled, 2016, necklace, metal, chrome steel, picture: artist

Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada (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: Mirei Takeuchi
Retail worth: €2,100
On this necklace by Mirei Takeuchi, the delicacy of dragonfly wings is captured in laser-cut iron. This evocation of maximum fragility in a fabric referring to brute energy is a lovely paradox that required nice technical sophistication. Dragonfly wings are a logo of magnificence, lightness, and ephemerality. In jewellery, they turn out to be a frozen signal of our insecurities and the fragility of our instances.

Victoria Bulgakova, Uniform VIII—Things I Haven’t Said — Victoria Bulgakova, Uniform VIII—Issues I Haven’t Stated, 2020, necklace, brass, patina, 7 ⅞ x 9 ½ x ¾ inches (200 x 240 x 20 mm), picture: artist

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: Victoria Bulgakova
Retail worth: €5,400
Victoria Bulgakova grew up in Mariupol, Ukraine, and immigrated to the US on the age of 20. Within the 80s, ladies there have been pressured to put on college uniforms college adorned with white collars they needed to sew on themselves. Each the uniform and collar felt like confinement, one thing to insurgent towards. Nevertheless, a few years later, reminiscence treats them as objects of deep longing and nostalgia, related to probably the most endearing experiences of college years. The Uniform physique of labor explores this shift in perspective. What’s extra actual, our expertise within the current or how we find yourself remembering it sooner or later?

Toni Mayner, Down by the Riverside — Toni Mayner, *Down by the Riverside,* 2024, brooch, oxidized sterling silver, smokey quartz, chrome steel pin, 5 ⅛ x 1 ⅝ inches (130 x 40 mm), picture: artist

Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Middle, 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: Toni Mayner
Retail worth: US$480
Jewellery artist Toni Mayner lives and works within the metropolis of York, within the UK. She makes use of conventional hand-making expertise and valuable supplies to develop thematically based mostly collections of one-off items. Her work has been exhibited within the UK, China, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, and digitally in Australia. Her 2024 actions embody a mid-career artist residency on the Baltimore Jewellery Middle, and her work was chosen for the Empathy Galerie of Artwork Legnica exhibition in Poland.

Tore Svensson, T-Reverso — Tore Svensson, *T-Reverso,* 2023, brooch, veneer, paint, silver, 3 ⅛ x 2 ½ x ¼ inches (80 x 65 x 5 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: Tore Svensson
Retail worth: Every €550
“The letter T is a logo I’ve labored with for a few years,” says Tore Svensson. “With variation in form and shade it turns to one thing else. Orange, purple, and fuchsia are the colours of Galeria Reverso, in Lisbon. Along with inexperienced, I made 4 totally different combos: 4 brooches in veneer for Reverso’s twenty fifth anniversary.”

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