Kayla Lim is Toronto based contemporary jewellery artist. Kayla’s work focuses on creating movement and contrast by mixing different materials and colours, and she strongly believes in the power of infinite possibilities by combining traditional ways of making with new technology.
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Kim Paquet has worked in social intervention while she starting her journey as a jeweller at École de Joaillerie de Montreal. She pursued her studies at NSCAD University and graduated in 2020 with a BFA in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing. Kim is fascinated by the concept of individuality and the idea that all humans are unique and in constant progress thorough challenges
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Lena is a contemporary jewellery designer and current artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto. She completed her B.A. majoring in fine art at the University of Toronto in 2014, soon followed by her Jewellery Arts diploma from George Brown College. Lena’s work is greatly influenced by technology, futurism, and her years of experience as a dancer
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Anna Lindsay MacDonald received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Studio, Designed Objects, and her BFA in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University. Macdonald has exhibited throughout Canada and internationally and currently teaches at OCADU in Toronto.
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Meris Mosher is a lifelong resident of Nova Scotia, Canada, and is the owner of Point of Departure Jewellery Designs. Meris is a graduate (2008) of NSCAD University with a BFA in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing. She received her Machinist Red Seal Journeyman ticket in 2016 and has taught both metalsmithing and machining. Meris is Co-Adorn Art Jewellery Society’s past Exhibition Chair
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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.
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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.
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Pamela Ritchie is an artist‐jeweller based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her studies include an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and postgraduate research work in Norway supported by a scholarship from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada in conjunction with the Government of Norway. Ritchie’s work has been exhibited internationally
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Paul McClure received his training from NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada (BFA, 1989); Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain; and National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (MA, 1999). In 2015, McClure received the Saidye Bronfman Prize, a Governor General of Canada Award, the highest distinction given to a Canadian visual artist. The scientific fields of biology, pathology and genetics
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Saydee Chandler is an artist and goldsmith living and working in Toronto. She received her BFA in Material Art and Design from OCAD University and is also a graduate of the Jewellery Arts Program from George Brown College, where she studied goldsmithing. Her work has been shown in galleries across Canada, as well as having been showcased in several
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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.
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Violeta Izquierdo is a Halifax based jewellery designer and maker. She has graduated from NSCAD University, majoring in Jewellery and Metalsmith. Her work is a reflection of the diverse cultural elements of her birthplace of Colombia and of where she currently resides in Nova Scotia, Canada. Violeta combines traditional metalsmith and digital techniques and is fascinated with balancing
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I create collections that bring together old techniques and modern technology. In my jewelry design I seek out the almost imperceptible details that surround us: line, color, form, and light in the subtle geometries of our everyday life. My designs combine the ultra modern and streamlined shapes with a finely delicate yet so powerful feminine aesthetic.
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Every piece of Ioana Enache Jewelry is designed by the artist herself. She creates unique custom and limited series of jewelry meant to bring beauty, joy and delight to your senses. From the vision of the first line to the finishing process, each piece is crafted by the artist and close partners. All the jewelry pieces are handcrafted in precious metals with natural precious and semiprecious stones, as well as cultured pearls.
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I am Valentina Cziko and I love creating jewelry combining metales, precious stones and more. The result of my craft, inspired by the present experiences that mark our existence, becomes mobile and versatile objects of art.
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Cho Ying NG is a young contemporary jewellery artist from China. For her, jewellery is a language of expression, which she uses to explore her observations of the world. She specialises in creating art with different materials to generate ideas and feelings, building her work into new narrative imagery and continuing to pursue the relationship between man and nature.
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Ingrid Adriaenssens (1956) has always been involved in various disciplines of art and craftsmanship. She studied silversmithing at the Academie of fine arts of Antwerp Belgium (1980). She soon established herself as an independent jewelery designer in Ghent. Because of her passion for color she followed enamelling in “Art et Metier” Brussels (2012). A quest that never ends. She has her own gallery - workplace in Ghent - Belgium.
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Marie 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
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Wanrong 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
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Renate 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
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