On Provide – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board
December 2025, Half 2
Proper now, all of us may 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 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 sure to discover a incredible piece you merely can’t stay with out! (Please contact the gallery instantly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Libby Cooper and Jo Anne Cooper (click on the gallerists’ names for electronic mail)
Artist: Asagi Maeda
Retail worth: US$16,000
Put on a dream, a metropolis, a narrative—Asagi Maeda meticulously constructs sculptures which can be additionally jewellery. Usual from wooden, Plexiglas, resin, enamel, silver, gold, and semiprecious and valuable stones, the work is engraved and painted by the artist, with considerate narratives about household and society. Maeda’s work is held in vital public collections together with The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (Delray Seashore, FL, US); Museum of Arts and Design (New York Metropolis); and the Museum of High-quality Arts, Boston (MA, US).
Gallery: Wearable Artwork Museum (click on the establishment’s identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click on the director’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Teri Brudnak
Retail worth: US$4,800
Because the twenty first century explodes in so some ways, artists really feel compelled to sound the alarm. Crimson Alert is a sculptural neckpiece that flashes pink mild as a severe warning. The design parts echo science fiction movie props from the mid-Twentieth century. The design is futuristic, and made by hand of recycled supplies. It’s artwork jewellery of this time, and inconceivable to disregard.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click on the gallerist’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Mary Curtis
Retail worth: NZ$900 every
“My work is a quiet celebration of the biosphere,” states Mary Curtis. “As I wander by means of life, my eye is consistently drawn to the delicate adjustments I see, marking time, not by the calendar however by nature. A leaf, a seed … these are small moments that fascinate me, elemental varieties that characterize the passage of time and that people have been adorning themselves with for hundreds of years. These Seed to Leaf pendants discover and describe the small moments of three iconic New Zealand bushes, the Pohutukawa, the Kauri, and the Puriri. My apply has a powerful give attention to sustainability. I’m within the lifetime of the supplies I exploit, the place they arrive from, and the place they find yourself. All supplies are sustainably sourced with by-products from supplies and processes recycled. I like to forage; Muka (fiber from flax) is sourced and dyed from vegetation from my avenue and the wooden is reclaimed from demolished buildings or fallen bushes.”
Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click on the gallerist’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Marion Delarue
Retail worth: 615€
A part of the exhibition Rings of Saturn 9/12 (Sagittarius). “Rooted within the symbolism of Sagittarius,” states Marion Delarue, the artist, “the work attracts from the determine of the centaur, a creature hovering between human and animal. Crafted from pure recycled fur, echoing the tactile presence of the horse’s physique, the items evoke by means of their shapes the duality and intimacy of merging varieties. Worn on the physique, they grow to be metaphors for blurring identities.”
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Tanel Veenre
Retail worth: US$250
As a part of Ornamentum’s Vacation Earring Present, the esteemed Estonian jewellery artist Tanel Veenre has given Ornamentum quite a few version items—a putting scale, light-weight, and at a terrific worth level. Many colours can be found. Please contact Ornamentum for info.
Gallery: Objects Stunning, London, UK (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Yael Reisner (click on the gallerist’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Ketli Tiitsar
Retail worth: £1,990 GBP, plus VAT
A lovely wooden brooch that works elegantly on one’s coat or jacket and tasks a outstanding presence. Ketli Tiitsar primarily makes use of wooden taken from her childhood dwelling and great-grandparents’ backyard in Estonia. She works principally with private recollections, whereas considering how a lot of them should not particular person, however clearly native and generational. Tiitsar’s jewellery belongs to public collections together with the Assortment of Metallic Artwork Division, at Estonian Academy of Arts; Artwork Museum of Estonia; Estonian Museum of Utilized Artwork and Design; Röhsska Museum of Artwork and Craft; and personal collections. Since 1994, she has participated in additional than 100 exhibitions in Estonia and overseas.
Gallery: Brooklyn Metallic Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click on the identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Vershali Jain
Retail worth: US$950
This ring set by artist Vershali Jain was impressed by the kaleidoscopic iconography of Indian truck artwork. Vernacular, nameless, and but instantly recognizable, these designs put on their hearts on their tailgates. Jain’s ring set goals additionally to seize the spirit of the artists who freehand paint these vans over lengthy hours, changing into an ode to this unsung artform. Created for New York Metropolis Jewellery Week 2025, this work was on view at Brooklyn Metallic Works’s jewellery and object gallery, Particular Gravity. Jain holds an MA in jewellery and silversmithing from Edinburgh Faculty of Artwork, and has exhibited internationally to acclaim.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, Australia (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Jane (click on the gallerist’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Linda van Niekerk
Retail worth: AUS$660
The This Method (Christmas) ring, by Linda van Niekerk, takes its tree-like type as a quiet reference to the Tasmanian wilderness, the place the uncommon Huon pine is sourced. The sculptural type seems to drift above the hand, supported by a double finger ring that offers the piece its distinctive presence. A delicate solution to want everybody pleased holidays!
Gallery: Pistachios Up to date Artwork Jewellery, Chicago, IL, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: The Pistachios Crew (click on the identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Hannah Tomoko
Retail worth: US$1,495
Belgian artist Hannah Tomoko addresses themes of loss and longing by means of her use of sterling silver. Tomoko’s progressive designs are impressed by filigree jewellery, with a up to date twist on the normal method. Made solely out of sterling silver, this versatile assertion necklace has clear strains and a contemporary aesthetic. The inside expands, permitting for the piece to be simply worn.
Gallery: Galerie MiniMasterpiece, Paris, France (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Esther de Beaucé (click on the gallerist’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Constance Guisset
Retail worth: 2,700€, plus VAT
The Aimant necklace, designed by the well-known French designer Constance Guisset, defies gravity and performs with levitation. It consists of a wonderfully geometric gold circle with two magnets at its heart, attracting one another with out touching.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Ascendant Jewellery/Melissa Hampton
Retail worth: US$770
These earrings are a wonderful mixture of oxidized sterling silver with shining yellow gold. The opals add a wonderful sparkle to those distinctive items.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Danni Schwaag
Retail worth: 395€, contains transport
The title of Danni Schwaag’s present exhibition, Twisted Coagulation, refers back to the materials galalith,* a casein materials, and its properties, in addition to to her state of being, the recurring questioning of (inventive) creation. In line with Schwaag: “Enduring a disaster, accepting, questioning, being caught, and wriggling out, new paths can open up. Maybe ‘twisted’ considering is essentially the most sincere type of readability, as a result of it forces us to not flee in a straight line and since readability typically solely comes when one dares to be confused. The place one thing twists, pressure arises. A thought that wraps itself round itself can grow to be an perception—or a knot.” End up entangled in these great knots. Schwaag studied with Professor Theo Smeets at Hochschule Trier’s division of gemstone and jewellery design, in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Her work might be discovered in lots of personal collections and within the Museum of Utilized Arts Cologne, Germany.
*Galalith, the “milky stone,” is likely one of the very first plastics—it comprises milk.
Gallery: Salotto SPJ, Milan, Italy (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Josefine Spjeldnaes (click on the gallerist’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Isabel Wang Pontoppidan
Retail worth: 3,240€
“Your finger is a slug; it needs to improve,” states the artist. “You may name me your architect, engineer, contractor, and actual property agent. This opulent snail home is the proper match for one. Regardless of being hollowed out, she nonetheless weighs a whopping 50+ grams in silver. Sturdy, decorative, full with a blue gemstone at her crown and a state-of-the-art dwelling safety system—the proper home.” Isabel Wang Pontoppidan is a Chinese language Danish artist, author, and jewellery maker based mostly in Amsterdam. She approaches jewellery as a residing apply that bridges physique, language, and materials, exploring hybridity, id, and decoration by means of a performative lens.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Florian Weichsberger
Retail worth: 440€
Florian Weichsberger spends lots of time enthusiastic about the connection between us and totally different objects. Along with the sensible operate, there’s typically an emotional or non secular connection to them. We fill an object with our needs and hopes—it ought to deliver us luck, the fulfilment of our desires, or therapeutic. In his newest physique of labor, Weichsberger explores on a regular basis objects. Issues which can be throughout us and that we have now grow to be so used to that we now not consciously discover them, however which have grow to be an integral a part of our on a regular basis lives. Weichsberger makes use of their traits to include symbols or messages. The previous operate is eliminated and a brand new one is added, honoring the article and giving it a brand new purpose to be near us and even on us.
Gallery: Espace Borax, Vevey, Switzerland (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Nicolas Christol (click on the gallerist’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail worth: US$500
Black powder embodies the structural violence of capitalism, decreasing life to commodities and sustaining racist, sexist, classist, and colonial domination. Central to colonial conquest, warfare, and mining, it exemplifies Achille Mbembe’s necropolitic: an influence that organizes publicity to loss of life, evident in modern police and navy violence. Right here, black powder blows up silver cylinders (and rings), materializing inherited colonial violence symbolized by gold pins, whereas additionally recalling struggles that fractured seemingly immovable regimes, and questioning the need of self-defense towards state violence. Every bit within the sequence is titled after a “much less deadly” mannequin of grenade.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Caroline Broadhead
Retail worth: 6,400€
This necklace is product of small glass beads which can be threaded with skinny thread into hyperlinks which collectively type a series. For greater than 50 years, Caroline Broadhead has been involved with objects that meet and work together with the physique. Classical jewellery and supplies encourage her, and the jewellery items she makes grow to be collectors’ objects. Public collections that maintain examples of her work embrace the Dallas Museum of Arts; the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the Museum of Trendy Artwork, Kyoto; and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Broadhead held the positions of Jewelry and Textiles Programme Director and BA Jewelry Design Course Chief for practically 10 years at Central Saint Martins, London, till her retirement in 2018; she is now professor emerita. Broadhead gave a lecture on the Pinakothek, in Munich, throughout Schmuck 2025, and was one of many finalists of the Loewe Basis Craft Prize 2025.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, Canada (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click on the gallerist’s identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Brooke Marks-Swanson
Retail worth: US$3,200
Repetition, dynamism, connections, and tactility are all a part of Brooke Marks-Swanson’s inventive course of. For a number of years, she has pursued this analysis by experimenting with and exploring totally different supplies that reply to her visible language.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Middle, Baltimore, MD, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: J Diamond (click on the identify for electronic mail)
Artist: Elena Karpilova
Retail worth: US$290
Elena Karpilova is a designer, artwork critic, and curator based mostly in Portugal. In her work as a maker, she makes use of leftover plastic, discovered objects, and beads. She graduated from a Belarusian artwork school with a level in portray, and from Belarus’s College of Tradition and Arts with a level in comparative artwork research. She is the founder and head of the Architectural Pondering College for Kids.
Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Heidi Lowe or Kassadi Williams (click on the names for electronic mail)
Artist: Yuri Tozuka
Retail worth: US$225
Yuri Tozuka’s Blue Drop Studs are featured in Heidi Lowe Gallery’s annual Earrings Galore exhibition, a juried exhibition of a wealthy and numerous array of earrings made by rising and established studio jewelers. Every artist’s distinctive method to the earring format is represented in a cohesive grouping of six pairs of earrings. Tozuka’s work is commonly impressed by the varieties, patterns, and relational intricacies which can be discovered inside nature and man-made programs.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Teresa Milheiro
Retail worth: 370€
“This necklace was created from a sequence of tin beetles, which have been initially youngsters’s toys manufactured in Japan,” says Teresa Milheiro. “One side of my work, all through my profession, has been re-creating jewellery from discovered objects. I’m within the tales behind the objects and the thought of including worth to one thing that already existed. A few of the locations the place I discover objects of curiosity are flea markets, and it was in certainly one of them that I got here throughout a field full of those toys which made a clicking sound by means of an iron plate embedded within the again. After I noticed them, my creativeness started to buzz with concepts, I instantly imagined a necklace and the way I may create a system that may enable the beetles to be joined across the neck, sustaining their unique look. The rubber rings enable it to be fairly versatile and adapt to the neck.”
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