Established in 2017, Co-Adorn is a network of over 80 thriving innovative jewellery artists working to advance the art form in Canada through social events, workshops, and exhibition opportunities. Co-Adorn creates opportunities that support and encourage emerging practitioners, which in turn contributes to cultivating a diverse, engaged audience with an appreciation for art jewellery.
Read MoreThe Art Jewelry Night of Budapest Group was founded in the autumn of 2014 with the intention of launching a series of events in order to popularize contemporary jewellery. The Art Jewelry Night of Budapest is organised for the seventh time this year. The event has gone through a lot of changes over the last 7 years, the original principles are still the same, but it has outgrown the one-night attributive.
Read MoreClaudia 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
Read MoreOtilia Fiastru is a jewellery and graphic designer. She graduated The National University of Architecture and Urbanism ”Ion Mincu” in 2002 and is graphic designer since 2001. Between 2001 - 2012 worked as art director for advertising agencies and in cultural projects she did graphic design for The National Museum of Art, The National Center of Dance Bucharest and for
Read MoreAs a Jewelry Designer, my works mostly originated from personal experiences and feelings with which I hope to communicate with viewers and wearers for further thinking and resonance. In this era where people experience perpetual changes and farewell, our life moments get intertwined with others’ and our existence becomes our and their memories. This caused me to find my own expression through my jewelry
Read MoreMarie Jianu – contemporary jewelry designer, wife and mother, metalsmith passionate, personal harmony artisan, transposed in metallic interpretations. Since 2012 I have been experimenting with different techniques acquired from my mentors David Sandu and Andreia Gabriela Popescu who have helped me express my ideas and feelings with clarity. Recently I started working on the
Read MoreAll my concepts are based on contrasts and strong emotions that may be of short duration, such as a burning flame, which leaves you with a long lasting memory. I like to use contrast materials like: gold foil, reinforced concrete and bone. I am very curious to see the public’s reaction. I like to not only leave an impression, but an emotion that the customer is willing to share with me.
Read MoreYujing Cheng is a Chinese jewelry artist and object maker who graduated from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology of Jewelry design department in 2017 and now continues her masters in Jewelry & Metal at the Royal College of Art in 2019. Her works mainly revolve around dreams, subconsciousness, desire, and memory, and convey personal feelings and attitudes through poetic narrative.
Read MoreYoungji Chi graduated from a university in Seoul and she’s working on art jewelry based here. Although she majored in metal craft, she wants to make without restrictions on materials and want to express abstract jewelry that showed rhythm and humor by using ‘Elements’.
Read MoreThe work explores the relationship between the sexes and sex from the perspective of women. Different contraceptive methods are used as a comparison to show the inequality of sexual pleasure and cost between men and women.
Read MoreIn daily life, soap is a common commodity. Whenever I use it, I want to keep the delicate carving on its surface, and deliberately change the way I use it. Since then, I began to pay attention to the special material of soap. Soap interacts with people frequently and continuously in daily life until it has completely run out. During this period, soap will be changed randomly according to people's unconscious use habits.
Read MoreWanrong Xie’s BA graduated from Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University and is currently studying an MFA degree in jewellery and metalwork at Sheffield Hallam University. She has about 6 years of jewellery learning and design experience. Xie uses jewellery and metalwork as a medium to bring people closer to social life and to explore various issues in contemporary society
Read MoreTanya Crane is a Southern California native living and working in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a Professor of the Practice in Metals at the School Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. Crane’s work is framed within a dual existence of prejudice and privilege having adapted to life amongst family in both the white suburbs and the urban center of South Central, Los Angeles. Craft has become
Read MoreRenate Erlacher was born and raised in Austria. She studied German Language and Literature and Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Vienna. She graduated with a MA. After that she worked as a teacher and lecturer for German as a Foreign Language at the Vorstudienlehrgang der Wiener Universitäten, until her retirement in 2015. From 1986 to 1988 she did research for her PhD thesis in Psychology
Read MoreAlthough I am a teacher by profession, my “normal” day job has always been intertwined with my passion for painting and handmade. As a child I showed a penchant for visual art so I attended an art high school where I gained the courage to experiment with various techniques and materials in everything I create and I think this can also be seen in the jewelry that I make.
Read MoreFounded in 2018 by architect Paolo Gambarelli, Lunante was born from necessity and will to explore the art of handwork as true archetypal dimension of making; the constant lymph of his work are the notions acquired in architectural knowledge and the innate propensities and deep love for manual work; the design, the construction and the presentation of his jewels are part of the many expressions of his training.
Read MoreNuohan Jiang is a Chinese artist based in New York City and Guangzhou. She currently studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Her work was exhibited in New York City, Beijing, and Guangzhou. Nuohan’s work has been focusing on transitions of her inner feelings and explorations of discarded objects and emotions. Nuohan usually incorporates a variety of non-traditional materials with metals, including
Read MoreI'm a textile jewelry crafter from Moldova, interested in working with traditional textile techniques, preserving and enriching the cultural heritage of my country by interpreting it in my own unique way, thus creating modern and unconventional pieces of wearable art.
Read MoreMISSHAPEN is a signal sent by pairing together a human body with a unique, handmade on-body object. It is an open question about the significance of jewelry in modern life, our irrational desire for luxury, pleasures and things that have no practical value. It is an idea that the beauty of a piece of jewelry should not reflect traditional aesthetic values. In 2018, MISSHAPEN debuted with a collection of handmade porcelain
Read MoreBorn in 1979, Tehran , Iran. Holder of bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Industrial Design from Universities of Art and Tehran University Faculty of Fine Arts. She started her professional artistic activity with painting and has participated in over 20 individual and group painting exhibitions inside Iran and abroad. After painting, Ebtekar moved on further in her art creation with sculpting and designing jewelry and
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