On Supply – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board
September 2025, Half 1
As of late, all of us might use a deal with. And it feels so good to get ourselves 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 a good time and exhibit artwork jewellery. Our bi-monthly On Supply collection 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 improbable piece you may’t reside with out! (Contact the gallery immediately for inquiries.)
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click on the title for electronic mail)
Artist: Aaron Brown
Retail value: NZ$2,370
Aaron Brown began his profession with bone and wooden carving, earlier than transferring to architectural mannequin making, then on to business sculpting, jade carving, jewellery design, and artwork sculpture. His deep love of nature and the land he lives in is mirrored in his work. “I really like the problem of representational or reasonable carving and the purpose of capturing a small sense of the topic’s persona,” he says. “This ring and the others within the collection have a good time Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Gallery: In The Gallery at Brooklyn Metallic Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click on the title for electronic mail)
Artist: Jolynn Santiago
Retail value: US$2,000
This dramatic necklace by artist Jolynn Santiago is the results of 1000’s of hand-tied silk knots. Very similar to Santiago’s artworks specializing in settling mud, this necklace shows how the tiny accumulates into the monumental because the artist seeks to visualise the passage of time. Santiago holds an MFA in metallic from the State College of New York at New Paltz, and her acclaimed work has been exhibited internationally. This work will probably be featured in her upcoming solo exhibition at Brooklyn Metallic Works.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Middle, Baltimore, MD, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: J. Diamond (click on the gallerist’s title for electronic mail)
Artist: Ben Cooke-Akaiwa
Retail value: US$225
Ben Cooke-Akaiwa’s work explores rules of Japanese design by materials, kind, and floor. Advanced surfaces and patterns are contrasted with easy kinds to create stability. Colour, sample, and texture are key parts within the conception of Cooke-Akaiwa’s jewellery. He integrates metal with valuable metals, enamel, and gems to create wearable objects which can be each inviting and contemplative. Cooke-Akaiwa was a three-month resident artist on the BJC within the fall of 2020.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click on the gallerist’s title for electronic mail)
Artist: Doerthe Fuchs
Retail value: US$5,200
This extraordinary necklace displays the Munich-based artist Doerthe Fuchs’s deep love of the ocean and the oceans. The nice ships often known as windjammers have been named for the sounds produced when the wind whistles between their sails and plucks at their many ropes just like the strings of an instrument. The act of “rigging” a ship, its full tools of masts, sails, and ropes, suggests an elaborate adornment, an idea that resonates throughout the world of knickknack.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Cristina Filipe
Retail value: 5,000€
With the Lights Out, It’s Much less Harmful pays tribute to 5 writers and a songwriter. “Their names are engraved on the handles,” states Cristina Filipe, “and their sentences, the primary ones I learn once I randomly opened every one in all their books and a CD taken from my bookshelves, have been engraved on the blades of the knives.” They’re:
- “A horrible despair yesterday. Visions of my life really fizzling out right into a sort of soft-brained stupor from lack of use,” —Sylvia Plath.
- “Somos sempre assim: o tempo vai passando, e tudo se nos volve saudoso – sofrimento, dores até, desilusões,” —Mário de Sá-Carneiro.
- “die Narbe der Zeit tut sich auf und setzt das Land unter Blut,” —Paul Celan.
- “At size she got here residence one evening after one in all these saunterings and mounted to her bed-room. She took off her laced coat and stood there in shirt and breeches searching of the window,” —Virgina Woolf.
- “Subi ao alto, à minha Torre esguia Feita de fumo, névoas e luar,” —Florbela Espanca
- “With the lights out, it’s much less harmful,” —Kurt Cobain
The case that holds the knives has a lid divided in two elements by a reduce that permits the gaze to separate the deal with from the blade and to focus solely on one of many elements one after the other. This permits the viewer to deconstruct its primordial perform and emphasize {that a} deal with with out a blade doesn’t reduce and a blade with out a deal with can’t be dealt with. This work was made for the touring exhibition Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels, curated by Norman Cherry and Dauvit Alexander.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Leonie Westbrook
Retail value: AUS$190–$260
Leonie Westbrook, on this collection: “My ongoing works discover the wealthy crafting traditions in my household historical past, responding to an innate resourcefulness and a seek for misplaced usefulness. Rising up on farms and outback stations, we had our personal organized ‘dumps’ for garbage. Outdated metallic elements and parts have been saved in sheds lined with tins and jars, ready to be reused. In 2007, I visited my Nice Uncle Harry at my nice grandparent’s property and took a picture of a protracted pile of discarded cans among the many bushes. The most recent cans have been at one finish, whereas the older ones steadily disintegrated into the grime, turning into a part of the panorama.”
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click on the title for electronic mail)
Artist: Emily Rogstad
Retail value: US$560
This piece is a part of the gallery’s current exhibition, In Movement. In Movement was an exhibition of up to date kinetic jewellery and sculpture by studio artists. Reactive and interactive jewellery that strikes with you, these items dance, sway, spin, and shake—shapeshifting earlier than your eyes. Featured artists utilized their well-honed craft abilities to breathe life into every component, transcending past static kind.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Jana Machatová
Retail value: 1,950€
Jana Machatová’s work is extremely important for the best way it transforms the brooch—historically an adornment—right into a medium of reminiscence, identification, and social critique. By way of the mixing of archival imagery and feminist statements, Machatová bridges the private with the political, creating poetic but highly effective wearable works that confront typical narratives. Her follow expands the expressive potential of knickknack and redefines it as a significant instrument for dialogue on historical past, gender, and human rights.
Gallery: Sienna Patti, Lenox, MA, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Sienna Patti (click on the gallerist’s title for electronic mail)
Artist: Jacqueline Lillie
Retail value: US$16,500
Three black-and-white strands loop and knot collectively, forming a graphic rhythm that drapes effortlessly. Designed by Jacqueline Lillie—the Vienna-based pioneer of up to date beadwork whose work sits in main museum collections—this piece carries her signature: exact, architectural, and quietly daring.
The sample is trendy but timeless. It sits comfortably, drapes fantastically, and immediately sharpens something from a T to night put on. This can be a foundational piece—distinct sufficient to be seen, versatile sufficient to put on typically, and made with the sort of intention that holds worth over time.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Huimin Zhang
Retail value: GBP£11,320, plus VAT
This ring is without doubt one of the highlights of Zhang’s Mammary Gland collection, which promotes the concept that even temporary lives ought to bloom like summer time flowers, radiating magnificence and power. Zhang developed her personal wire-drawing instruments to effectively craft 22-karat gold threads as skinny as 0.07 mm, believing the fusion of strategies corresponding to Chinese language filigree and European gold embroidery is essential for preserving conventional craftsmanship.
A taking pictures star in London, Zhang retains gathering awards—the Gold Medal for Wire Innovation, in 2025, and the Goldsmith’s truthful winner, in 2024, pointing at this lovely collection. Zhang lives in Beijing and London.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, Canada (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click on the gallerist’s title for electronic mail)
Artist: Silvie Altschuler
Retail value: CAN$675
Silvie Altschuler’s free and unpredictable jewellery breaks away from conventions, exploring a boundless inventive universe the place the usage of unconventional supplies, corresponding to silicone and cardboard, redefines preciousness and questions the very nature of knickknack.
Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click on the gallerist’s title for electronic mail)
Artist: Jimena Rios (+ Iris Eichenberg)
Retail value: 1,968€, plus delivery
Jimena Rios, in collaboration with Iris Eichenberg, made a collection of jewels, choices with the earthy power of Virgo, for the Rings of Saturn cycle of exhibitions, curated by Halo (Catarina Silva and Marta Costa Reis) at Lisbon’s Gallery Tereza Seabra throughout 2025/2026.
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 electronic mail)
Artist: Florian Weichsberger
Retail value: 1,000€
Florian Weichsberger spends a variety of time enthusiastic about the connection between us and completely different objects. Along with the sensible perform, there’s typically an emotional or non secular connection to them. We fill an object with our needs and hopes. It ought to carry us luck, the achievement of our desires, or therapeutic.
In his newest physique of labor, Weichsberger explores on a regular basis objects. This stuff are throughout us and we’ve develop into so used to them that we now not consciously discover them, however they’ve develop into an integral a part of our on a regular basis lives. Weichsberger makes use of their traits to include symbols or messages. The previous perform is eliminated and a brand new one is added, honoring the thing and giving it a brand new purpose to be near us … and even on us.
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