On Provide – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

April 2026, Half 1

Proper now, when the world feels upside-down, all of us may use a deal with. It feels nice to deal with ourselves to a terrific piece of artwork jewellery whereas celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who present them!

Artwork Jewellery Discussion board’s worldwide gallery supporters have fun 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 certain to discover a unbelievable piece you merely can’t dwell with out! (Please contact the gallery instantly for inquiries.)

Peter Bauhuis, Pareidolia, ring in tumbaga, photo courtesy of Tereza Pedrosa Gallery — Peter Bauhuis, *Pareidolia,* ring in tumbaga, photograph courtesy of Tereza Pedrosa Gallery

Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Peter Bauhuis
Retail worth: 2,750€

Rooted in historic creation myths the place people and gods have been formed from clay, Pareidolia gently blurs the boundaries between the human, the divine, and the fabric world, reworking metallic into one thing directly archaic and strikingly up to date. With Pareidolia, Peter Bauhuis turns the straightforward act of trying right into a second of quiet marvel. Typically, because the artist says, simply two marks are sufficient for a face to seem.

Carina Shoshtary, For When We Flourish (Red), 2026, earrings in PLA (bio-plastic), vintage elements, glass, recycled silver, lacquer, photo: Kassadi Williams — Carina Shoshtary, *For When We Flourish (Crimson),* 2026, earrings in PLA (bio-plastic), classic parts, glass, recycled silver, lacquer, photograph: Kassadi Williams

Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Kassadi Williams (click on for e-mail)
Artist: Carina Shoshtary
Retail worth: US$477

Carina Shoshtary’s earrings are included within the annual Earrings Galore juried exhibition, a wealthy and numerous array of earrings made by 60 rising and established studio jewelers. The exhibition is meant to create extra entry for the general public to have interaction with artwork jewellery, domesticate connections with the group, and supply alternatives for individuals so as to add to their jewellery assortment.

Melanie Isverding, Cavea (46), 2016, brooch in silver, enamel, crushed hematite and pearls, glimmer, lacquer, 3 ¾ x 3 ⅜ x ¾ inches (95 x 85 x 20 mm), photo: artist — Melanie Isverding, *Cavea (46),* 2016, brooch in silver, enamel, crushed hematite and pearls, glimmer, lacquer, 3 ¾ x 3 ⅜ x ¾ inches (95 x 85 x 20 mm), photograph: artist

Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Melanie Isverding
Retail worth: 2,590€

“By treating stones as carriers of financial worth, the method of choosing minerals for his or her utility as gems turns into distinctly seen and open to questioning. This course of follows strict standards—purity, shade, and density—that outline what is taken into account priceless whereas excluding different types of worth. Confronting this method sharpens a central query: why have been these parameters established, and what do they fail to think about? Society seems certain to materials ideas formed by historical past, tradition, and consumption. The gemstone reduce offers uncooked materials a floor that renders it fascinating and treasured. A beforehand missed stone instantly positive aspects consideration and turns into a standing image. But when it’s crushed, its substance stays. Worth shifts towards notion, intimacy, and a private relationship with the fabric past outward look. Right here, the discarded minerals are floor down and held, carried, and supported inside a web or perhaps a cage.” —Melanie Isverding

Craig McIntosh, Topography Brooch, 2025, in Pakohe/metamorphic argilite, fiber carbon, silver, structural adhesive, 3 ¾ x 4 ⅞ x ⅝ inches (95 x 123 x 17 mm), photo: artist — Craig McIntosh, *Topography Brooch,* 2025, in Pakohe/metamorphic argilite, fiber carbon, silver, structural adhesive, 3 ¾ x 4 ⅞ x ⅝ inches (95 x 123 x 17 mm), photograph: artist

Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Craig McIntosh
Retail worth: CAN$1,395

When Craig McIntosh works with stone, he works in a sure approach with the earth, or reasonably with place. Panorama is a human development. It’s our approach of perceiving and deciphering the bodily atmosphere. Topography, in flip, is the strategy by which we analyze and map the contours of the terrain. The division and fragmentation of territory right into a system of synthetic areas has formed each the atmosphere and the varied identities of New Zealand. This physique of labor is a mirrored image on how panorama is framed and seen, and on the subjective relationship to position.

Klara Brynge, Detour, 2021, necklace in silver, rubber band, 3 ⅛ x 3 ½ inches (80 x 90 mm), photo: artist — Klara Brynge, *Detour,* 2021, necklace in silver, rubber band, 3 ⅛ x 3 ½ inches (80 x 90 mm), photograph: artist

Gallery: 4 Gallery, Umeå, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Klara Brynge
Retail worth: 1,200€

Klara Brynge makes drawings with smithing strategies. It begins with the hammer and the blows. Then shapes develop because the plasticity of the fabric permits it to maneuver. It’s a circulate of photos and types, just like a motion by a panorama. A clean sheet of metallic is empty of content material, like a brand new piece of paper, however has its bodily properties, thickness, weight, resistance, and transformability. A begin of a brand new journey.

Daniel Kruger, Untitled, 2013, necklace in silver, copper, element 2 ¾ x 2 ¾ x 1 ⅜ inches (70 x 70 x 35 mm), 19 ¾ inches (500 mm) long, photo: Udo W. Beier — Daniel Kruger, Untitled, 2013, necklace in silver, copper, factor 2 ¾ x 2 ¾ x 1 ⅜ inches (70 x 70 x 35 mm), 19 ¾ inches (500 mm) lengthy, photograph: Udo W. Beier

Gallery: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, Netherlands (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Daniel Kruger
Retail worth: 2,000€

Daniel Kruger is a multidisciplinary artist. He grew up in South Africa, studied on the Academy of Tremendous Arts in Munich, and taught on the College of Artwork and Design at Burg Giebichenstein, in Halle, Germany. Kruger’s work actually wants no clarification. His jewellery is highly effective and sensual, and it captures the creativeness. His artwork jewellery requires a wearer who’s assured and confident. The bowl-shaped, reflective floor of this necklace catches the attention of everybody who passes by and turns their world the other way up. Now on show within the exhibition Mirror Mirror…, at Galerie Door.

Hea Lim Shin, I Painted Rain, Which Became Raindrops_16, 2025, brooch in canvas, silver, acrylic, paint, traditional ink, traditional lacquer, 4 ⅜ x 4 ⅛ x ¼ inches (110 x 105 x 6 mm), photo courtesy of Objects Beautiful — Hea Lim Shin, *I Painted Rain, Which Grew to become Raindrops_16,* 2025, brooch in canvas, silver, acrylic, paint, conventional ink, conventional lacquer, 4 ⅜ x 4 ⅛ x ¼ inches (110 x 105 x 6 mm), photograph courtesy of Objects Stunning

Gallery: Objects Stunning, London, UK (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Yael Reisner (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Hea Lim Shin
Retail worth: £1,750

Final month AJF revealed the article Stitching Previous to New: A Snapshot of the Interconnection between Modern Jewellery and Textiles, by Vicki Mason, and I discover it well timed. Furthermore, she included a brooch I’ve at my gallery, which I counsel right here in On Provide. I symbolize just a few artwork jewelers who take pleasure in working with textiles, but their narrative and engagement couldn’t be extra totally different, which I discover fascinating. Hea Lim Shin is from South Korea. She was shortlisted by Loewe for her most lovely brooches, and for good motive. She has developed her personal approach, taking her work with acrylic on linen, after which urgent them in circles, arriving enigmatically at a brand new portray, fairly minimalist and summary—”taking inspiration [from] the rules of the American Minimalist motion.” Its round texture associates it with annual tree rings, and appropriately in order she refers to this sequence as Ornaments of Time. It’s a surprisingly skinny brooch, held by a skinny silver body and pins on the again.

David Holmes, Clouds, 2025, brooches in mother-of-pearl, oxidized sterling silver, (at center) 2 ½ x 2 x ¼ inches (63 x 50 x 6 mm), photo: Michael Couper — David Holmes, *Clouds,* 2025, brooches in mother-of-pearl, oxidized sterling silver, (at middle) 2 ½ x 2 x ¼ inches (63 x 50 x 6 mm), photograph: Michael Couper

Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click on for e-mail)
Artist: David Holmes
Retail worth: Every NZ$600

David Holmes was born within the South Island of New Zealand, the place he began creating jewellery as a toddler. He studied at Dunedin College of Artwork, the place he was awarded an Superior Diploma in jewellery design. Holmes enjoys working with natural types enjoying with gentle, shade, humor, and motion. His works predominately use shell, pearls, stone, and silver, and are strongly influenced by Pacific jewellery and adornment. “I constructed a home and a small studio with a unbelievable view of the Otago Peninsula, in Otepoti Dunedin, the place I proceed to make and observe my inventive journey,” he says.

Nikki Couppee, Necklace, in brass, acrylic, faux pearls, sterling silver, approximately 22 inches (559 mm) long, photo: Pistachios — Nikki Couppee, *Necklace,* in brass, acrylic, fake pearls, sterling silver, roughly 22 inches (559 mm) lengthy, photograph: Pistachios

Gallery: Pistachios Modern Artwork Jewellery, Chicago, IL, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Meg Nash (click on for e-mail)
Artist: Nikki Couppee
Retail worth: US$2,250

A press release necklace by Bay Space artist Nikki Couppee that packs a punch! In a nod to kitsch, this opulent necklace is made with brass, acrylic, and pretend pearls. By means of the usage of on a regular basis supplies, Couppee is “capable of exaggerate the dimensions and abundance of gems [to] parody or poke enjoyable on the class points inherent in high-quality jewellery.” The artificial supplies act as a counterfeit or stand-in for treasured gems and stable gold.

James Betts, Fluid Bangle, 2024, bracelet in sterling silver, 3 x 3 x ⅛ inches (76 x 76 x 3 mm), photo: J Diamond — James Betts, *Fluid Bangle,* 2024, bracelet in sterling silver, 3 x 3 x ⅛ inches (76 x 76 x 3 mm), photograph: J Diamond

Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Middle, Baltimore, MD, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: J Diamond (click on for e-mail)
Artist: James Betts
Retail worth: US$130

James Betts is an artist and designer at the moment residing and dealing in Philadelphia. He holds an MFA in metals/jewellery/CAD/CAM from the Tyler College of Artwork and Structure. His present physique of labor makes use of digital know-how to each illustrate psychological and visible phenomenon.

Nicolas Christol, CTS7290M, 2026, brooch in silver, gold pins, 7 ⅛ x 3 ⅛ inches (180 x 80 mm), photo: N. Christol — Nicolas Christol, *CTS7290M,* 2026, brooch in silver, gold pins, 7 ⅛ x 3 ⅛ inches (180 x 80 mm), photograph: N. Christol

Gallery: Espace Borax, Vevey, Switzerland (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Nicolas Christol (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail worth: 1,200€

CSS-STCS (2025) belongs to Transmutations, a 2025 sequence exploring gunpowder’s central position in capitalism and its colonial penalties, enabling invasion, extraction, and repression of resistance. Methods derived from this historical past, together with less-lethal strategies, later returned to Europe to counter social actions. The brooches and rings are produced by explosive processes and named after sting grenade fashions. Deformed silver containers embody state violence, whereas gold pins set up an invisible bond between system and physique, the place gold acts as a structural situation reasonably than lending worth. “Transmutation” right here describes a concrete course of reworking our bodies and nature into wealth by chemical violence and transformation.

Erica Rosenfeld, Mismatched Post Earrings—Horse Theme, 2025, in glass, photo courtesy of InterFusion Art — Erica Rosenfeld, *Mismatched Put up Earrings—Horse Theme,* 2025, in glass, photograph courtesy of InterFusion Artwork

Gallery: InterFusion Artwork, Santa Fe, NM, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: The Group (click on for e-mail)
Artist: Erica Rosenfeld
Retail worth: US$200

Erica Rosenfeld’s mismatched equine-theme earrings are hand-crafted in blown, hot-worked, and carved glass. One earring includes a cameo of a horse, and the opposite a horseshoe, creating an sudden pairing that feels playful and collectible. Based mostly in New York, Rosenfeld is understood for her distinctive glass jewellery and sculptural work.

Radka Passianova, All but Forgotten, 2021, broch in sterling silver, stainless steel pin, discarded flip flops, 2 ¾ x 2 ⅜ x ⅝ inches (70 x 60 x 15 mm), photo: artist — Radka Passianova, *All However Forgotten,* 2021, broch in sterling silver, chrome steel pin, discarded flip flops, 2 ¾ x 2 ⅜ x ⅝ inches (70 x 60 x 15 mm), photograph: artist

Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, Australia (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Jane (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Radka Passianova
Retail worth: AUS$1,600

This work is formed by each the fabric—discarded flip flops—and the locations they have been discovered. In lots of components of the world, objects are repaired and reused; however in some components, they’re rapidly discarded, typically with out consideration of the environmental affect. A reliance on comfort and extra has distanced us from extra aware methods of residing. On this sequence, Radka Passianova reclaims and revalues these discovered thongs—collected from seashores throughout Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, and Australia—giving them new life. Their colours resurface, not hidden in sand, landfill, or the ocean.

Marion Vidal, Earrings "Elytra," in black bamboo and 18-karat yellow gold, unique piece within a series of 15, MiniMasterpiece edition 2026, photo courtesy of Galerie MiniMasterpiece — Marion Vidal, *Earrings “Elytra,”* in black bamboo and 18-karat yellow gold, distinctive piece inside a sequence of 15, MiniMasterpiece version 2026, photograph courtesy of Galerie MiniMasterpiece

Gallery: Galerie MiniMasterpiece, Paris, France (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Esther de Beaucé (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Marion Vidal
Retail worth: 3,200€ (plus VAT)

In Japan, bamboo is a sacred plant. Supple because the wind but sturdy as metallic, it embodies power, youth, and longevity. Throughout her creative analysis residency at Villa Kujoyama, in Kyoto, in 2025, designer Marion Vidal explored bamboo as a inventive medium in its personal proper. She reveals its uniqueness, bodily properties, and symbolic significance, whereas pushing the fabric towards sculptural expression. Précieux Bambou marks her first collaboration with the MiniMasterpiece gallery. Conceived as an archipelago of types, the gathering options eight sorts of jewellery, every autonomous but intimately linked, interacting with each other like sculptural knucklebones.

By selecting bamboo, an sudden materials on the planet of treasured jewellery, Vidal invents a brand new language of types. She works with its speedy development, its hyperlink between earth and sky, its roughness and contrasts—knots, textures, gentle and darkish, variations in scale—to discover a steadiness between the natural freedom of the fabric and a exact, intentionally minimalist design. As soon as the bamboo has been sculpted with geometric rigor and naturalistic aptitude, Vidal creates interaction between flat and curved traces, punctuated with flashes of yellow gold. The gold acts as a breath, a discreet rhythm that reveals the poetry of the plant. Like the sunshine that guides the bamboo in its development, the gold lifts it from the earth and brings it to the physique, reworking it right into a vibrant and sensual jewel of need.

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