Claudia Lepik - CLUSTER London (Estonia/UK)
Founded in 2016, Cluster has grown into a celebration of diversity, style, material and themes, of ethnicity, background, age and class, a melting pot defined solely by the artistic necessity to express. To date Cluster London has held eleven fairs, including ones dedicated to Illustration, Craft, Jewellery and Photography. With over 300 creatives featured, Cluster has formed a community of practitioners, which it supports through a program of monthly gatherings, career support, one-on-one development sessions, talks, seminars and workshops, as well as the opportunity to take part in an ongoing series of curated projects and more.
Cluster is more than a fair, it is a joint venture, a share journey, creative safe house and exercise in community building. Each fair and every event is a meeting place of like-minded individuals, sharing stories of success and struggle, initiating conversations and collaborations.
CLAUDIA LEPIK
Biography:
Claudia Lepik is a jewellery artist who is intrigued by how to push boundaries in jewellery with scale and material. Specific interest is face and nose jewellery and including more theatrical fashion inspiration in her works gives her the opportunity to investigate the whole body of a wearer and work with chosen materials being in dialogue with her body. Taking time for each piece is her way of communicating with her emotions and also her way of including her interest in fashion in her creations. She is in love with her hands and letting them dictate almost the whole process from sketch to final piece. Main material in her big scale works is brass which is differently manipulated to create an almost garment-like feel from afar but then close by you can see the stiffness of metal.
Claudia is based in Tallinn, Estonia and she graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts Jewellery and Blacksmithing department in 2018 (BA) and won the Young Applied Arts Scholarship for her portfolio. She has participated in showrooms in Paris, exhibitions in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece and the United States. Her first solo-exhibition “About Face” was shown during NYCJW in 2019 at 92Y Cultural Center where she previously stayed for her 1-month residency. She was chosen to be 1st Contemporary Jewellery resident for Cluster Crafts in London in 2021 and will have her second solo exhibition in London in October.
Bracelet, gold plated brass, silk
Bracelet, gold plated brass, silk
Face adornment, brass
Face mask, brass, fabric ribbon
Face mask, sterling silver, fabric ribbon