Precious Collective
Precious Collective
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Collective biography:
Precious has evolved organically since 2017 into a collective of over 360 makers from around the globe. Precious members are bound together by an ambiguous relationship to notions of what ‘precious’ is. Since its conception Precious has exhibited extensively, most recently at Munich Jewellery week. It celebrates all things Art Jewellery, is a community, thrives on offering support & opportunities to makers at all stages of their career and just loves showcasing this art form to new audiences.
Designers selection:
"Beyond the Recognisable" This showcase of ten works by ten different members of Precious Collective promotes an anthology of thinking towards the act of making. These works represent the potency of material thinking in jewellery languages that excavate notions of process, materiality and potential of transformation once worn. Beyond the recognisable and past the wearable archetypes are intimate actions of making, makers marks and individual stories that speak through the tangible poetic configurations. The found object speaks to the reclaimed metal, the fable is retold within ceramics, the colour has a conversation to composition and the jewel represents it’s maker. (words credit Mark Mcleish)
Agnes Wo
Agnès Wo is a licensed architect with a degree on Architecture from the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona. She also studied art jewellery at the School of Art and Design La Massana where she got her degree in Advanced Technique in Plastic Arts and Design. Her collections have been exhibited at venues such as the TATE Modern (main shop) London, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Art Centre Caixa Forum, La Pedrera by Gaudí and the Collegi d’Arquitectes in Barcelona. A professor of contemporary jewelry at LLOTJA Superior School of Design and Art, she lives and works in Barcelona. Her work explores the relationship between ARCHITECTURE and JEWELRY, between OBJECT and SCALE.
Agnès WO Necklace_Ungravity_2020_porcelain_oxidizedsterlingsilve_129x445x43 mm
Carolina Apolonia
My work is about finding refuge and freedom. Often I construct abstract versions of buildings and landscapes that mirror my dreams and fears. Some relate to memories I have or people around me. Yet others deal with my needs for protection, my fear of being locked in or shut out and my fascination with visible and invisible boundaries. When I was six years old I learned to sew. This love for textile techniques constitutes an important aspect of my jewellery practice. I am drawn to the time-consuming and meditative nature of soldering and sewing: it forces me to slow down and gives me a sense of freedom that I can use my hands, a needle or a flame to build, connect and repair anything.
Carolina Apolonia_necklace_HOME 20_21_sterling silver_old wood_paint_pendant 9X5cm
Claude Lescar
Claude Lescar is a self taught jewelry artist; deciding in 2017 to create contemporary jewelry. She is also a graduate professor of technology
Concrete jewelry?
With sculpture I have the privilege of being in a workshop with concrete columns and Carrara marble pieces ... to have the autonomy to make small portable sculptures. I seek to express fragility and evolution of the city with remains of concrete showing imprints of time and richness of past. Relics are an invitation to question and recall memory. What image does society intend to give by destruction or abandonment of ruins ? These remains are rich with the accumulation of memories becoming future supports of rebirth.
Claude Lescar_Pendant_Precious Memories with PreciousFragments_2023_steel_ceramic_brass_gold_concrete_Pearl_52mmx65mmx450mm
Dongyi Wu
Dongyi Wu is a Chinese-born contemporary jewellery artist based in Gatlinburg, United States. By using a wide range of unconventional materials, Dongyi creates her narrative jewellery pieces with her expressive language that is inspired by literature, her own experiences, and research into psychology. Dongyi received her Master's Degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States and her Bachelor's Degree from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China. Dongyi has had her works exhibited both nationally and internationally, such as JOYA Barcelona 2020 and Schmuck 2018. She was a finalist for the ENJOIA'T 2017 Award in Spain and won the Preziosa Young 2020 in Italy.
Dongyi Wu_Brooch_Access to unknown worlds11_2023_SterlingSilver_Copper_Steel_Plastic_Clay_WaxThread_StainlessSteel_8.4x13.5x5.3cm
Elvira Cibotti
My jewellery journey began in 2007 with the lost wax technique, a familiar approach due to my experience in clay sculpture. Seeking to personalize my process, I turned to paper, recycling and reusing images and texts from discarded magazines, giving them a second life. I was so captivated by the result that recycled paper became my raw material. From there, I haven't stopped exploring different techniques to build my pieces. This one-way trip is a path of constant discovery and experimentation.
ElviraCibotti_Brooch_NorBlackNeitherWhite_2023_RecycledPaper_Silver_Steel_10x5,5x5,5cm
Katherine Hubble
Katherine Hubble is an Australian artist who in 2022 completed her MFA by research at RMIT Melbourne where she also completed her BA (Honours) in 2017. Her graduate pieces were selected for the 2017 and 2022 Marzee International Graduate Show in Nijmegen, Netherlands. In 2022 Hubble won the National Contemporary Jewellery Award at Griffith regional gallery New South Wales. Hubble’s work explores the notion of what pearl jewellery could be in the twenty-first century. It uses the changing role of jewellery to think through the representation of pearls and their shells. Within her practice a combination of traditional jewellery methods and contemporary industry processes are employed.
Katherine Hubble_neckpiece_Pearl Technician#IV_2022_polypropylene_vinyl_thermoformingplastic_pvc_freshwaterpearls_sterlingsilver_3Dprintedresin_26x24x35cm
Katie Kameen
Katie Kameen creates wearable sculpture by playfully deconstructing and reassembling post consumer plastic objects. Katie received her MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has been published in American Craft Magazine, Friend of the Artist, and Uppercase Magazine. Katie is an assistant professor of 3D sculpture media at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia, USA.
KatieKameen_brooch_Sediment_2022_foundplasticobjects_plasticthread_13x10.5x3cm
Lynne Speake
Lynne Speake is a mixed media artist;
'Things find their way to me
I ask and and they get found
These things come from and are shaped by ...
the earth ...
the wind ...
the fire ...
and the light.
Often they are also shaped by man ...
But they have been discarded along the way.
Things that may, could and will affect the living things born already ...
and the living things yet to be born ...
possibly today or in thousands of years of time
These things that find a way to come to me have ...
a story ...
a history ...
a power.
They are things that have ...
memories ...
adventures ...
journeys ...
And maybe to ultimately help man to think about what he has done ... and what he could do ... and even what he shouldn't'
Lynne Speake_Brooch_Spotty Geode_2020_Geode._wood from my former home a 100yr old lugger_copper_liver of sulphur_10cmx14cm
Mark Mcleish
Mark studied silversmithing and jewellery at Loughborough University then some years later did an MA in Craft at Manchester School of art where he is now the academic jewellery lead. He has exhibited internationally and is a member of the core committee of Precious Collective predominantly as the Academic & Outreach representative amongst other vital roles. He is recognised for working with archives and is an elder within a Lancashire coven.
MarkMcleish_neclace_2020_britishporcelain_paper_silicone_variable_250cm
Svetlana Prigoditch
Svetlana Prigoditch is a jewelry artist based in the Netherlands. In 2005 she graduated in Media Art from ArtEZ Art Academy in Enschede(NL). Svetlana’s work is inspired by cinematography, literature, found objects, fragrances and natural patterns. The jewelry collection 'Mon Baudelaire' is based on the book ‘Les Fleurs du mal’ by the French poet from the nineteenth century Charles Baudelaire. Inside the objects you will discover the smell of a unique fragrance, self composed specifically for the jewelry that will create an extra dimension, attracting your senses, and stimulating your imagination while looking and wearing the pieces.
SvetlanaPrigoditch_earrings_collectionMonBaudelaire_2022_polymerclay_silk_flowerpetals_fragrance_goldfilledearbuds_3x3cm