A Peek into the Assortment of Jewellery Artist Luca Adie
Luca Adie loves phrases.
As knowledgeable translator, he hunts for simply the best one when translating books from French to English, or into one of many many different languages he speaks.
As a jeweler, Adie carves phrases into rings, brooches and different items. A sequence of chunky, colourful rings carry messages similar to “Go away Now,” “WTF,” and “I ❤️ Dick.”
“I need to work in opposition to conference. I need to poke, to be provocative,” says Adie, who grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, and now lives in Munich. He previously was often known as Paul Adie, however just lately modified his first identify to Luca.
The feelings on his jewellery come from many sources, from popular culture to nostalgic recollections of his life. He made a necklace that claims “Abracadabra” (from the Girl Gaga tune) and adorned one other with the phrases “Ding Dong,” from a actuality TV present within the UK. His work raises questions on masculinity, intercourse, and energy buildings.
As a youngster, Adie wished to attend artwork college, however a “B” in artwork design (alongside “A”s in his different topics) led him to check Russian and Spanish on the College of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. Whereas working as a translator in Barcelona, he found the modern jewellery program at Escola Massana and thought, “I’ve to do it now.” He later accomplished his research at Munich’s Academy of Advantageous Arts. In 2025, he was an artist in residence on the famend Idar-Oberstein campus of Trier College of Utilized Sciences.
In contrast to some makers, Adie likes to put on jewellery.
“It’s this small factor that makes you’re feeling higher,” he says. “If you put it on, you smile.”
A lot of the jewellery created by Estonian artist Ketli Tiitsar is made out of wooden gathered at her childhood house and from her great-grandparents’ backyard. Making ready wooden together with her arms harkens again to her childhood in a suburb of Tallinn, the place her day by day chores included amassing wooden and stripping its bark to make kindling for the wood-fired range that heated her house.
At the moment, after she collects wooden, she dries, saws, sands, and assembles it to be used in her necklaces, brooches, and different items. The method helps her join with recollections of her childhood and with the spirit of her neighborhood.
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“I really like the concept the eyes of my kinfolk or individuals expensive to me have witnessed the expansion of those timber,” she says. “They’ve taken care of this materials.” And when the lifetime of the timber ends, the wooden will get one other life in her jewellery, says Tiitsar, who received the Annual Prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in 2018.
Adie’s necklace, from the sequence Shelter, consists of apple and lilac wooden, leather-based, paint, and silver. He adores how the weather transfer as he wears it. For Tiitsar, the sound the necklace makes remembers overgrown lilacs beating in opposition to an previous house, or clothespins knocking in opposition to a sauna home.
Adie studied with the Danish artist Karen Pontoppidan on the Academy of Advantageous Arts in Munich, the place she has been the pinnacle of the jewellery and hollowware division since 2015. These silver earrings are among the many first earrings that Pontoppidan ever made, Adie says.
The earrings are carved with the define of a nostril. Written on the again are the phrases “the bottom” in German. “They make me chortle,” he says. “It’s simply sort of silly to place a nostril on an ear. It’s sort of daft.”
“It’s a chunk I might put on to the opera,” Adie says of the necklace above. “It actually makes you stand upright. You’re conscious of your physique.”
The necklace’s chains, that are agate, had been carved by German jeweler Julia Obermaier and are linked with silver. Obermaier is understood for her work as a lapidary artist, revealing the fantastic thing about stones similar to agate and rock crystal. She just lately acquired the “Younger Ambassador” award from Homo Faber and the gold prize on the Cheongju Craft Biennale.
Adie chosen this piece throughout a go to to Obermaier’s studio in Kempten, Germany, swapping it for a big pendant in delicate metal he made, one in all three works introduced when he was a finalist for the Loewe Craft Prize in 2018. Adie later painted over it in shades of rose, white, and inexperienced and titled it In with the New.
The agate necklace, which is made out of two completely different stones, has shades of crimson, inexperienced and yellow from resin and pigment. “It’s very heavy,” Adie notes. “You may’t put on it for dancing at a membership, however I really like this piece.”
“I shouldn’t have purchased this piece as a result of I had a price range, however I simply mentioned it’s now or by no means,” Adie remembers of buying this Peter Bauhuis brooch from Galerie Biro, in Munich.
Adie wished a piece by “a grasp of the craft,” he says, and this was “the biggest gold-colored piece that I may get.” It’s manufactured from yellow bronze, an alloy of copper, tin, and zinc that’s also called orichalcum.
The artist, who’s German, used wax casting to make this piece and plenty of others, which have a tough floor to disclose the ghosts of the wax fashions they got here from. Bauhuis was awarded the Danner Basis Prize of Honor in Munich in 2020, and the Bavarian State Award for Design and Craftsmanship in 2023.
To Adie, the brooch’s form depicts “testicles or bosoms, however I’ve not had a dialog with Peter about what it means.”
Bauhuis describes the piece as “a really summary fly.” His earlier work depicted “prehistoric Venus collectible figurines and their voluptuous varieties. Some see a connection,” he says. Adie’s piece is a part of the sequence Flies, which Bauhuis created throughout the Covid pandemic.
Lord is the title of this piece by Estonian artist Kadri Mälk, which is made out of moleskin. “There was a housebreaking in her workshop,” Adie says. “They took all the dear materials, however they left the moleskin coat from her grandmother.” Mälk used a chunk of the coat to make this brooch, which has a sapphire eye and aquamarine stones set round its border.
“It’s a really treasured piece,” Adie says. “It’s mystical, like Kadri.”
Mälk, who was a professor within the jewellery division on the Estonian Academy of Arts, died in 2023. In a 2021 interview with Klimt02, she mentioned, “From a rational viewpoint, jewellery is completely pointless, simply an expense. Identical to monuments, treasured stones. The rational world will not be going to break down if we didn’t have jewellery. However we nonetheless want it. Its radiance modifications our temper.”
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