On Supply – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

June 2026, 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 rejoice 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 sure to discover a improbable piece you merely can’t dwell with out! (Please contact the gallery immediately for inquiries.)

Gallery: Within the Gallery at Brooklyn Metalworks, Brooklyn, NY, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click on the title for e mail)
Artist: Valerie James
Retail value: US$2,600

This necklace by Valerie James spotlights the artist’s distinctive talent at hand engraving. The sections of oxidized sterling silver are woven along with silk ribbon. This work is featured within the exhibition Right here, There, and In all places, at Brooklyn Metallic Works via August 30, 2026.

Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Middle, Baltimore, MD, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: J Diamond (click on the title for e mail)
Artist: Gentle Blonde
Retail value: US$92

Gentle Blonde is a recent line primarily based in Baltimore, MD, US, specializing in handmade jewellery. Kat Stankewicz is the designer behind Gentle Blonde. Her line began in 2015 with small batches of bijou for annual artwork gala’s and occasions. She started incorporating natural supplies into her work, finally creating the signature Pierced Assortment.

Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Mia Chen (click on the title for e mail)
Artist: Marne Ryan
Retail value: US$9,240

Marne Ryan’s Ring 41, from the Geoscape Collection, is a research in deliberate layering. Every ring is lower from a fused sheet of sterling silver and high-karat golds, with pure gold added to the back and front surfaces and 18-karat pale yellow gold framing the highest and backside edges. A strip of 22-karat gold traces the inside—softer towards pores and skin and extra sturdy over time. The boulder opal anchors the composition with pure shade and depth. Notably, the ring’s patina develops via put on: pores and skin chemistry and pure oils deepen the floor over time, a luster that can not be replicated artificially and solely grows richer with age.

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 e mail)
Artist: Tania Patterson
Retail value: Every NZ$790

Tania Patterson is a New Zealand jeweler and sculptor who graduated in 1989 with a diploma in craft design. Over the previous 30 years she has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and Australia, along with her work held within the collections of the Auckland Museum, The Dowse Artwork Museum, and Te Papa Tongarewa. Her apply attracts inspiration from the pure world, significantly native species reminiscent of frogs, lizards, moths, and birds. Returning to her jewellery roots lately, she embraces the intimate scale of wearable objects, combining technical exploration with ecological themes to rejoice the wonder and fragility of nature. Now primarily based in rural Waipu, Patterson balances her studio apply with time spent within the nice outdoor, tramping, planting timber, and gardening—pursuits that proceed to nourish and inform her artistic work.

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: Danni Schwaag
Retail value: 1,700€

Within the neckpiece Twisted Prickly, the fabric—galalith—performs a lead character. The works refers back to the qualities of the fabric, and the artist attracts parallels to her personal state of being: the recurring questioning of creative creation, enduring crises, and discovering which means. Accepting, getting caught, wriggling out, and discovering new paths.

Gallery: Wearable Artwork Museum (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click on the director’s title for e mail)
Artist: Michelle Ritter
Retail value: US$4,800

Rhythm was created by established artist Michele Ritter, featured at Sculpture To Put on gallery, and was featured within the e book 500 Necklaces. The neckpiece makes a melodic sound when the wearer walks briskly. Additionally featured within the NICHE announcement to honor Sculpture To Put on as a finalist for Retailer of the 12 months. A part of the gathering of a outstanding collector (nameless) whose collections have been featured on the Mint Museum, NC, US; LACMA; and Fowler Museum.

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: Elena Gorbunova
Retail value: 1,350€

Elena Gorbunova’s creative apply focuses on upcycling polypropylene and different plastics. With love and plenty of hours of intense work with this mass-produced materials, Gorbunova transforms this all-too-common materials into lovely and super-lightweight wearable artwork objects. In her new collection, On the Mobile, Gorbunova explores the thought of identification on a microscopic stage. That is proven each within the extremely exact manner of working and within the cell-like construction with which she composes her artwork jewellery. On this sturdy, versatile, and chic collar, Gorbunova rigorously set 28 cabochon-cut tiger’s eyes. The small gem stones float round your neck and sparkle with the slightest motion. A real magnificence that’s price being worn and cherished perpetually. Gorbunova studied with Professor Theo Smeets at Hochschule Trier’s division of gemstone and jewellery design, in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Her work could be discovered in lots of non-public collections and within the Dallas Museum of Artwork (US), assortment Deedie Potter Rose.

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: Herman Hermsen
Retail value: 960€

“This necklace,” states Herman Hermsen, “is a response to all of the threats on this planet round you which ones an increasing number of destroy the protection of life and peace on this planet. Additionally, a person in a crowd can expertise [not feeling secure]. The blind spot mirror offers the particular person in entrance and in again of you the likelihood to examine what occurs behind. And a doable attacker can see him/herself and mirror on what he/she finally had deliberate to do.” The mirror is adjustable. The reflecting angle could be modified so every little thing round you could be seen.

Gallery: InterFusion Artwork, Santa Fe, NM, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: The Staff (click on the group’s title for e mail)
Artist: Susan Mahlstedt
Retail value: US$1,775

Susan Mahlstedt’s Vivid Sand Greenback with Waves Pendant distills the artist’s refined, nature-based language right into a pendant of outstanding craftsmanship and stability. Depletion-gilded sterling silver, oxidized edges, and 18-karat gold particulars create luminous distinction, whereas the hand-textured heart and flowing wires evoke the motion of tide and sand. Three pure diamonds add a quiet shimmer, reinforcing the piece’s magnificence with out overpowering its kind. Mahlstedt’s status for exact metalwork and sculptural wearability is obvious right here, making this pendant each a wearable object and a small-scale murals. It’s poised, tactile, and distinctly collectible.

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 e mail)
Artist: Caio Mahin
Retail value: 1,145€, plus transport

“For this collection,” states Caio Mahin, “I return to the signal of Libra via its planetary ruler, Venus—a determine who has lengthy formed beliefs of magnificence, want, and concord. I method her not as a distant goddess, however as an intimate affect, questioning how her presence unsettles the boundaries of gender and identification, particularly within the expertise of being socialized as a person whereas marked by a Venusian sensibility. The works navigate magnificence as each masks and vulnerability. O falo é o palhaço, a papier-mâché youngster’s face with an exaggerated nostril, factors to the absurdities of energy and efficiency embedded in masculine symbols. A set of silver rings permits shifting combos of our bodies—breasts, chest, penis, vagina—an invite to play with kind whereas dissolving inflexible binaries. Different items lean into softness, fragility, and probability. Ribbons that resist the rigidity of chains, stones that carry the reminiscence of waves, fossils that collapse time into decoration—all turn into unstable vessels for Venus’s affect. Right here, magnificence just isn’t a great to be attained, however a disquieting presence: playful and grotesque, tender and chopping. It arrives to disarm, and in its wake leaves solely the uncooked power of vulnerability.”

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: Walid Akkad
Retail value: 3,200€ (VAT not included)

Walid Akkad is a outstanding Franco-Lebanese jewellery designer. As a gesture of friendship, he often designs an unique piece for MiniMasterpiece gallery. Right here is his newest creation, the Bull bracelet, in brushed silver and vermeil. A fragile design that evokes each the bull and the plant world.

Gallery: Pistachios Modern Artwork Jewellery, Chicago, IL, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to its web site)
Contact: Meg Nash (click on the title for e mail)
Artist: Hanna Liljenberg
Retail value: US$4,695

Meticulously handcrafted with paper, seed pods, acrylic paint, and brass, this unimaginable one-of-a-kind assertion necklace from Hanna Liljenberg is a showstopper. “With my background as a painter,” she states, “I have a tendency to make use of paper or clean steel sheets as a place to begin for my jewellery. These foldable supplies urge for my consideration.” The natural nature of her work is impressed by Dutch still-life work from the eighteenth century, with imagery of decaying flowers and darkish undertones. Liljenberg’s work is on view at Pistachios as a part of the exhibition Mystic Meadows, alongside collections from Märta Mattsson, Sofia Björkman, and Karin Roy Andersson.

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