On Provide – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

July 2025, Half 1

Proper now, all of us might use a deal with. It feels good to get a terrific piece of artwork jewellery for ourselves whereas celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who present them!

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 positive to discover a incredible piece you merely can’t reside with out! (Please contact the gallery instantly for inquiries.)

Gallery: Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Patti Bleicher (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Zachery Lechtenberg
Retail worth: US$600
Zachery Lechtenberg makes a speciality of champlevé enameling, a way that infuses his jewellery with vibrant coloration and layered that means. Usually, complementary imagery is engraved on the reverse aspect of every piece, in addition to alongside the bezel, enhancing each narrative and craftsmanship. Every bit is housed in a home made field, individually illustrated with an unique drawing, reinforcing his dedication to storytelling and element.

Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, SA, Australia (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Jane Bowden
Retail worth: AUS$6,480
Jane Bowden’s piece Connections explores textile methods to create tactile components which can be linked in the course of the course of of creating. Utilizing a 0.6-mm crochet hook, she crochets particular person glass beads into place with each sew. The cotton stitching thread is seen by the translucent and clear glass beads, giving the refined coloration adjustments to every mushy jump-ring. The character of this piece signifies that the wearer can manipulate how the piece is worn. It may be a neckpiece or wrapped across the wrist to kind a sculptural bangle. Bowden is an Adelaide-based jeweler, maker, metalsmith, and gallerist whose process-driven artistic follow is impressed by the aesthetics of structure and textiles. A fascination with scale lies on the coronary heart of her 35 years of creating and gives her the problem of making more and more smaller and extra finely detailed items

Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Sondra Sherman
Retail worth: US$4,000
This brooch belongs to the physique of labor referred to as The Gemstone Apothecary, which weaves collectively themes of science, superstition, and the symbolic language of knickknack. The inspiration stems from a residency at Trier College Idar-Oberstein Campus. Immersed within the gemstone business, which defines town, Sondra Sherman sought to answer the distinctive setting whereas persevering with to discover her ongoing curiosity in “course of as metaphor” and jewellery’s psychological and social roles. Although initially struggling to discover a connection, she turned intrigued by the therapeutic stones bought in native vacationer outlets. By means of this lens, the therapeutic stones turned a brand new image throughout the work. Unakite fosters emotional therapeutic, stability, and grounding. It’s helpful for overcoming emotional blockages and selling self-awareness.

Gallery: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, Netherlands (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Tatjana Giorgadse
Retail worth: 2,650€
Tatjana Giorgadse was skilled by Theo Smeets and Ute Eitzenhöfer on the division of gemstone and jewellery design in Idar-Oberstein (Germany). Her fantastic world of artwork has its roots in a free and carefree childhood within the Georgian countryside. To this she provides her up to date goals, her fascination for nature, and the frisky playfulness of her personal kids. Her work is highly effective, stimulating, and a feast for the eyes.

Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Catarina Silva (click on the identify for e-mail)
Artist: Teresa Dantas
Retail worth: 9,840€, plus delivery
Teresa Dantas’s works are characterised by a neo-surrealist language, composed of complicated photos, numerous supplies, and a artistic hand of monumental expertise and ability. The piece Guardador de Sonhos (Dream Keeper) is a sculpture that includes a pendant/amulet (the 2 corniform components) and is a part of the fourth exhibition within the cycle The Rings of Saturn, curated by HALO (Catarina Silva and Marta Costa Reis) and happening on the Tereza Seabra Gallery in Lisbon all through 2025–2026.

Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Heejoo Kim
Retail worth: CAN$2,000
Electroforming, which entails depositing layers of metallic onto an object sculpted in wax, is much like the method of making life for Heejoo Kim. The growing thickness of those layers symbolizes the passage of time. The waves symbolize phases of life. This method infuses a dynamic life power, permitting her works to transcend the course of time.

Gallery: Pistachios Modern Artwork Jewellery, Chicago, IL, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: The Pistachios Staff (click on the identify for e-mail)
Artist: Christina Zani
Retail worth: US$2,545
Made with hand-carved wooden and gold vermeil, this one-of-a-kind necklace by Christina Zani makes a sculptural assertion! The Edinburgh-based artist attracts inspiration from city structure, borrowing components from town’s panorama to create work that’s colourful, daring, and tactile.

Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click on the identify for e-mail)
Artist: Joe Sheehan
Retail worth: Every NZ$1,000
Joe Sheehan is acknowledged as one in all Aotearoa New Zealand’s main up to date stone sculptors. An knowledgeable carver, his exact work ranges in scale from jewellery to large-scale public set up. Sheehan studied up to date 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 intensive onsite fieldwork and exploration each in Aotearoa and abroad. The house between adornment and artefact has given him a large area inside which to function. Sheehan’s artworks usually twist the acquainted and reference on a regular basis objects utilizing domestically sourced stone together with Pounamu.

Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Heejoo Kim
Retail worth: 2,070€
The sequence Lunar Blossom, created utilizing a mixture of electroforming and conventional Ottchil (lacquer) methods, evokes the quiet magnificence and melancholic shimmer of a water floor gently rippling below moonlight. Heejoo Kim, who has lengthy expressed the wondrous power of vegetation and life, now broadens her perspective to embrace the earth, sky, water, moon, and cosmos.

Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Middle, Baltimore, MD, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click on the identify for e-mail)
Artist: Mary Hallam Pearse
Retail worth: US$2,000
Mary Hallam Pearse creates jewellery that goes past ornament—every bit explores themes of want, identification, and ornamentation. Drawing on classic charms, floral motifs, and business jewellery varieties, her work is wealthy with private and cultural that means. These sculptural items reside on the intersection of physique and structure, making daring statements whereas remaining deeply wearable. Museum-worthy in each idea and craftsmanship, her jewellery invitations connection—to ourselves, the environment, and the tales we stock. Pearse is at present the artist in residence on the Baltimore Jewellery Middle.

Gallery: 4 Gallery, Umeå, Sweden (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Shachar Cohen
Retail worth: 975€
Think about standing by a lake on a heat summer season evening. The floor is sort of a darkish mirror and the water is velvety. Would you leap in? Would you prefer to know what’s down there, or would you let your creativeness make up its personal concepts? Items by Shachar Cohen are time capsules that transport each outdated traditions and fashionable artwork expressions. Symbols, relics, or silhouettes with an unknown that means are encased in a protecting cowl.

Gallery: Ombré Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Jenna Shaifer (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Tune Kim
Retail worth: $3,300
Korean artist Tune Kim explores the vitality and dynamic nature of vegetation and their connection to humanity. The work expresses her fixed effort to discover the interior progress inside ourselves. Blue Necklace highlights Kim’s imaginative and prescient by meticulous craftsmanship along with her hand-sewn shell and beadwork element. Kim’s work is among the many items within the touring group exhibition Korea Now: Land of the Morning Calm, curated by Charon Kransen. Fifty-two up to date jewellery artists take us on a cultural journey by whimsical storytelling and attention-grabbing magnificence connecting their Korean heritage. The exhibition is on view at Ombré Gallery, in Cincinnati, by August 31, 2025.

Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click on the identify for e-mail)
Artist: Yuri Tozuka
Retail worth: US$6,600
This necklace is a functioning marionette of a tiger. The planning and technical ability that went into making this piece is unimaginable. It’s really wearable artwork at its greatest!

Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, NY, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click on the gallerist’s identify for e-mail)
Artist: Aaron Decker
Retail worth: US$3,400
Aaron Decker’s necklace titled triangletarcircelsquare is the primary in a brand new physique of labor for his solo exhibition *no meeting required, at Ornamentum, in Hudson, NY, US, July 19–August 10, 2025. The title is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the meticulousness required to provide this new physique of labor. Of the necklace Decker states, “these days, all the pieces feels prefer it’s falling aside—it’s overwhelming. So as an alternative of the often strong surfaces I work on, I’m breaking all of it aside, and displaying the act of holding all of it collectively.” Decker’s new work takes imagery from army patches, badges, and symbols, breaks them all the way down to their elemental shapes, and stitches them again collectively, displaying how even the strongest of varieties can nonetheless be fragile.

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