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ADAM GRINOVICH
-What is specific about jewelry its attachment to a strong sense of want, to the impulse to possess it. Making jewelry is remarkable act, the process of organizing precious elements into sublime constellations.
Adam Grinovich is a jewellery artist from USA. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art and Design 2003, and a Master of Fine Art from Konstfack University in Stockholm 2008. Since 2018 he is a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design in USA.
AGNIESZKA KNAP
- It is what you see.
Agnieszka Knap works with jewellery, objects, and performance in which people's participation and commitment are included. She is interested in how an object is perceived and how it can reveal different world-views in its beholder.
Agnieszka Knap is a jewellery artists living and working in Stockholm. She obtained her MA degree from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in1999 and holds a position as senior lecturer and head of the master programme CRAFT! at the same institution. (Photo brooches: Mats Håkanson, Photo portrait: Rikard Westman)
AMMELI ENGSTRÖM
- I tend to stretch and push a material to its limit. It is in this close dialogue with a material, its tolerance and boundaries, that I find a language that speaks to me.
Ammeli Engströms work references to traditional craft while it constantly examines its classical structures. The artist has a background from North Sweden and global experiences such as completing a three-year apprenticeship in Tibet, an exchange semester in New Zealand, and studies in France. In 2017 she received an MFA degree in jewelry art from the Academy of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg. She is now based in the same city and is one part of Gallery Four.
ANDREA WAGNER
- The idea of blurring the separation point of what is essentially regarded as architecture and what nature stands in as playful metaphore for facing up to secret dreams.
The work of Andrea Wagner takes us into beaches and other landscapes, the diversity of materials and forms are like the layered impressions of an extended travel log.
Andrea Wagner was born in Germany, grew up in Canada and lives since 1994 in Amsterdam. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from where she graduated 1997.
ANNA TALBOT
- … fairy tales, nursery rhymes, songs and stories. Wolves, deer, trees, forests and Little Red Riding Hood are all central elements in my universe….
Anna Talbot’s jewellery tells stories through characters, colours and materials. The artist is inspired by fairy tales, nursery rhymes, songs, and stories. Birds, animals, insects, plants, and forests are all central elements in her universe, and they don’t necessarily stick to their traditional places. Strong colors and different surfaces illustrate and create atmospheres. Layers of landscapes, stories and fairytales build a mini universe and a picture you can carry with you, wear on your body or hang on the wall. Anna Talbot lives and works in Oslo.
ANNETTE DAM
- Sometimes it feels like a riddle that I struggle to solve - to visualize and materialize the somewhat abstract thoughts into wearable pieces of jewellery … it becomes an investigative Ping-Pong between the ideas, material compositions and my own craft skills.
Annette Dam is a jewellery artist from Copenhagen who creates jewellery that inverts assumptions about what is cheap/valuable, masculine/feminine. She graduated 1999 with a master’s in fine arts from Oslo National Academy of the Arts and then studied art history at the University of Copenhagen.
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Necklaces by Annette Dam
Necklace by Annette Dam
ANNIKA PETTERSSON
- We live in a time when technologies have developed to a point where we can reconstruct materials to fit our needs.
Annika Pettersson is fascinated with value and authenticity, how these concepts are present in intimate objects. Jewelry as a concept encompasses many ideas that are inherent in the history of remix, relating to the unique handmade as well as the digitally mass manufactured.
Annika Pettersson is a jewellery artist from Sweden. She completed her MFA at Konstfack University in Stockholm 2009 and is currently living and working in Sweden and USA.
ARTEMIS VALSAMAKI
- To be able to express my concerns and thoughts in a piece that will come in touch with the body, is very challenging to me, defying sometimes the concept of jewelry, approaching the idea of an object. My inspiration deals with human relations, dreams , Greek mythology, fantasy, hidden messages. Each time my intention is to create a visual, narrative story to be worn.
Artemis Valsamaki is a jewellery artists from Athens. During her profession, she has got much attention for her extraordinary work, for example she won the Athens Jewelry Week Award 2018 and been included in collections as CODA museum.
CATARINA HÄLLZON
- Nature plays an important role in the work I do. It is a bank of material I tend to get back to. I love to go fishing and I hike the countryside. Living in a society that urbanize faster and faster it has become important to me to keep the nature, the material I get from it and to master those.
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Catarina Hällzon is a jewellery artist from Örebro in Sweden. She has a Master in Fine Arts from Konstfack University of Arts and Crafts in Stockholm. Since graduation she has been exhibiting regularly in Sweden and abroad.
CATARINA SILVA
- Referring to a primitive origin when questioning the relevance and present function of the amulet or protective talisman, I conceived pieces with a surrealistic and neo-pop assemblage that results in the intertwine between ornamental forms that allude the naturalistic in counterpoint with apparently mechanical and artificial elements.
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Catarina Silva is a jewellery artist from Lisbon. She studied at Ar.Co (Centro de arte e comunicação visual) between 2000-05 where she now is the head of the Jewellery Department. Photo credits: Pedro Sequeira
Necklaces by Catarina Silva
Necklace/Object by Catarina Silva
CLAUDIA MILIĆ
- My customer´s sensory experience begins with the visually striking sparkle.
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Claudia Milić works and lives in Pforzheim in Germany. She designs the jewellery with the distinct desire that each piece shall fully engage the senses of her customers. Claudia Milić has the ability to make a concept as strong, binding and immovable as a chain, and turn it into something fluid, adaptable and tactile; creating a bond with the wearer that will transcend any fleeting fashion trends to become as enduring and timeless as the concept itself.
DENISE J. REYTAN
- I love the details…
Denise J. Reytan´s work is an exploration in contrasts, between materials, values, colours and personal content. She is questioning conventional boundaries and is interested in the transformation of precious into non-precious and vice versa. The pieces she makes become unique compositions that all have a story to tell.
Denise J. Reytan is a Berlin-based jewellery designer and artist. She’s been creating jewellery, installations and art objects.
DORIS BETZ
- I discovered the line, and I experienced freedom in it.
The artistic practise of Doris Betz is characterised by fluid movement resulting from her craftsmanship and courage to experiment. Her dictum is the line. With playful curiosity she pushes her materials, mostly silver, to the limit, whist carefully and vigilantly controlling the linear formation process.
Doris Betz is a jewellery artist from Germany. She got her diploma 1996 from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.
ELIN FLOGNMAN
- Every Day Matter
Elin Flognman's work is a tribute to everyday life and the things that surround us. There is a wish to emphasize the magic in the mundane. What we may not have thought could be jewelry is what she picks up and makes jewelry from. The potato is a recurring object that she handles with respect, love and humor.
Elin Flognman is a Swedish jewellery artist. She received her MFA in Jewellery Art 2013 at HDK – School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg.
FELIEKE VAN DER LEEST
- When I am working with colours, I feel like a painter. When I am working with metal, I feel like a constructor. And when I am working with toys, I feel like a child.
Felieke van der Leest is a jewellery artist from the Netherlands. 1996 she graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie Jewellery Design in Amsterdam and has during her career developed a personal style involving issues as environment, animal care and social behaviour. Her work can be found in many private and public collections around the world. Since 2008 she lives and works in Norway.
GUSTAF LINDBLOM
- It is important to me that the pieces work unisex.
Gustaf Lindblom’s brooches can be seen as portable subtle statement pieces. The inspiration comes from the police and guards' walkie-talkies that are carried high up at the clavicle. The fact that people in uniforms wear brooches is not seen as a matter of course, but in an interesting way the work challenges common notions of the function of accessories.
Gustaf Lindblom graduated from Konstfack University of Arts and Crafts in Stockholm 2017.
HANNA LILJENBERG
- With a background as a painter I use paper or the blank metal sheet as a starting point for my jewellery.
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Hanna Liljenberg jewellery becomes a manmade growth that dresses the body. Ornaments with fragile sharpness made from foldable flat material bring a need to adapt to what you are wearing and enhance the importance of attendance in the present.
Hanna Liljenberg has studied jewelry art at HDK-School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg with a Master degree 2011 and Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery in Tokyo 2010.
HEEJOO KIM
- The interest in huge themes such as life and death blooms through the encounters with microscopic and unfamiliar things that are hidden in the familiarity around us.
For Heejoo Kim, the process of putting metal layers on the object carved out of wax in a bath by electroforming means life creation. Thickness of piled layers represents time and colours the accumulation of time. We like to call it high craft and art.
Heejoo Kim works and lives in Seoul. She received her Master here in 2011 from Kookmin University and a Doctoral course 2018. She has also studied at Hochschule Pforzheim.
HELENA JOHANSSON LINDELL
Helena Johansson Lindell works with hierarchical structures and prejudices. She embraces materials and methods that from a societal perspective are considered to have a low status but are frequently used in pop culture. In parallel with her artistic practice, we find her on roller skates in Stockholm's skate parks.
Helena Johansson Lindell is a jewellery artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm and at KHIO - Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Necklaces by Helena Johansson Lindell
HELENA LEHTINEN
-….finding the meaning in the meaninglessness…
Helena Lehtinen is one of Finland's most active jewelry artists. She has with great commitment characteristic visual language taking place on the international stage, exhibitions, workshops, teaching and awards as the prestigious Herbert Hoffman Prize in Munich 2013. Together with Tarja Tuupanen, Jenni Sokura and Eija Mustonen she formed Hibernate group in 1999. She lives and works in Lahti in Finland.
Necklace by Helena Lehtinen
Necklace by Helena Lehtinen
HELENA SANDSTRÖM
- … not to take anything for granted, life is not practical…
Helena Sandström is a jewelry artist from Stockholm with a MFA from Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design in 1997. She is known for taking her own paths and chooses non-traditional materials and techniques. Zinc is a favourite material to explore. As an Artist-in-residence in Japan, she got inspired by Origami and since zinc cannot be soldered in the usual way, she creates volumes from flat sheets by folding. She also works with etching to create patterns and a variety of beautiful shades of gray in the metal.
JANNA SYVÄNOJA
- When certain formed components start to follow each other and find their rhythm in my hands, the miracle happens...
Janna Syvänoja is an artist from Helsinki, Finland and known for her jewellery and sculptures made from recycled printed paper, such as newspapers and books. Beyond the language of the material, there is an additional reality, the information that refers to communication between people - messages and expressions. A piece of jewelry is worn for the same purpose.
JELIZAVETA SUSKA
- When I work on my jewellery I aim to be a demiurge, to create my own new world.
Jelizaveta Suska crafts her works with the imagination that she could drop onto the pieces and be in a marvelous landscape. As a reverse order, the jewelry on you, or you on the jewelry?
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Jelizaveta Suska is a jewellery artists from Latvia who moved to Sweden to study. In 2015 she received her Master in Fine Arts from the University of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg. She was also educated in Latvia, Germany and Japan.
JORDI APARICIO
- Jewellery maker, watchmaker and instructor of fusions, difusions and fire control...
Jordi Aparicio is based in Barcelona. He grew up surrounded by watches and jewels with his parents creating and arranging the complicated objects. First he learned the profession of watchmaking which later ended up in jewellery making and studies at Escola d'art del Treball La industrial (2010). He makes jewelry that require fine discipline and great craftsmanship wich has led to well worth awards.
Necklace by Jordi Aparicio
Necklace by Jordi Aparicio
JORGE MANILLA
- Religion, feelings, and relationships are inspiring elements.
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Jorge Manilla is a jewellery artists originally from Mexico. He studied and did a PHD in Belgium and currently he is a professor at University of Arts in Oslo. Jorge Manilla's work challenges in cultural meaning and exchange between traditions and backgrounds. It consists a huge production with wild mixtures of touching stories and twisted relationships. The unusual work reflects moral and physical anatomy of the soul, a reminder that human strength in the end overcome the sad and wounding moments, that sounds of vulnerability are just signs of heroic strength.
Brooch by Jorge Manilla
Brooch by Jorge Manilla
JULIA MARIA KÜNNAP
- The perfection of an idea is visualised in the faceting diagram, where a gem is described by a formula: a table of faceting angles, indexes and instructions…
Julia Maria Künnap is a jewellery artist from Estonia. She works with natural gemstones and has developed a technique to combine the facet cut and free form engraving.
Künnap graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts, Jewellery Art Department 2004. She has also studied at Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewellery, Florence and Konstfack University of Arts and Crafts in Stockholm.
JULIA WALTER
- when it's going really well in the studio, I feel free and liberated from the restrictions life holds.
Julia Walter believes in the energy a piece of jewellery can carry, for her jewellery is charged with the energy of a moment in time, the energy of the jewels meateriality, the energy of the maker which often transforms into the energy of the wearer.
Julia Walter is a jewellery artist with European and Polynesian family roots based in Amsterdam. She studied jewelry and design of everyday objects at Ar.Co in Portugal and the University of Applied Arts in Pforzheim, Germany, from where she graduated in 2007.
KAREN PONTOPPIDAN
- Jewellery can be a tool in a socio-political discourse…
Karen Pontoppidan is a jewellery artist born in Denmark but lives in Munich, Germany where she works as a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Between 2006-2015 Karen Pontoppidan was the guest professor and professor at Ädellab Konstfack University College of Arts in Stockholm.
Karen Pontoppidan approaches the art of jewelry with irony, pithy and concise statements and devotes her work to a thought process that evokes a kind of reflective critical irritation.
KARIN ROY ANDERSSON
- What in our time will be saved and in what shape will it be passed on to the future?
Giving new life to leftovers and garbage gives Karin Roy Andersson satisfaction. Recycling and the interplay between her and the qualities of the materials, challenge and motivates.
Karin Roy Andersson is a jewellery artist with a Master of Applied Art from the University of Arts and Crafts and Design, Gothenburg, Sweden 2009. She runs Four gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden which opened 2010.
KETLI TIITSAR
- I am interested in what happens when somebody wears family candleholder chopped into small pieces for a necklace…
Ketli Tiitsar is a jewellery artist from Estonia. She graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts 1999. Since 2002 she is a program manager of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design.
In her artistic practice, she has the recent years used wood as the principal material. She collects, dry, saw, sand and re-assemble wood in a different order, look for ways to express herself, using the interference patterns and harmonies arising from deconstructing the material. (Portrait by Diana Didyk)
Brooch by Ketli Tiitsar
Brooch by Ketli Tiitsar
KIM BUCK
- I’ve always aspired to creating jewellery with a clear idea behind it, one that extends past being ornamentation...
Having said that, it is equally important that the jewellery invites being worn, and that it exudes a quality of execution and materiality. Kim Buck is a goldsmith and artist based in Copenhagen. Among a long list of merits, he has been adjunct professor at HDK University in Gothenburg, visiting professor at Konstfack Univerisity of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm and visiting professor at Art Institute of Nanjing University.
Pendant by Kim Bucht
Pendant by Kim Bucht
Pendant by Kim Bucht
KLARA BRYNGE
- The distant and the near has a meeting point.
Klara Brynge is a jewellery artist from Gothenburg. She uses silversmithing as a method to explore the material. It can appear as both hard and raw, yet pliable, soft, organic and moving. By using the hammer she makes translations of the quick lines from drawings into the silversheet to create surface and to give shape to physical qualities of the material.
Besides the making, Klara Brynge is junior lecturer at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg University.
LAMIA SAAB
- My pieces are not typical pretty jewellery and can be bulky and strange sometimes….
Lamia Saab is a goldsmith and jewellerymaker based in Stockholm. The work she makes are often statements with obvious symbols and helps her in expressing care for the environment, for human rights and to stand against racism. When the pieces are sold, she donates some of the profit to help organisations that support the causes that made her come up with the ideas in the first place.
LENA OLSON
- outdoor activities is a big input for me to make jewellery, like walking my dog, riding my horse and to satisfy my own body’s wish to be in some kind of use...
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Lena Olson has been working as an independent artist in the jewelry field since her graduation from HDK- University of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg in 1996. Her work can be recognized in her typical skilled way of using wood as the main material and it's relation to the human being.
LIANA PATTIHIS
- I found working with enamel a material that expresses me more than any other.
Stretching the boundaries of what can be achieved with enamel as a medium, Liana Pattihis has developed her own unique method of sifting and fusing it on a movable base like silver and gold chains.
Liana Pattihis grew up in Cyprus. She studied Jewellery Design at the Middlesex University in London and graduated in 2007 and has since then been working as a jewellery artist in her own studio in London.
LISA WALKER
- It´s really OK for people to wear odd-looking brooches.
One issue of Walker's work is a study into the differences between an acceptable notion of beauty or stereo-type, and something else - the search for an aesthetic that we hardly ever see, but nevertheless perhaps recognise. She is continually pushing towards the extreme, and recognises this is a method which enables her to expand her thinking and way of working.
Lisa Walker is a New Zeeland artist based in Wellington. She studied at the Arts Academy in Munich. During the years she has exhibit frequently and been gathering awards.
Necklace by Lisa Walker
Brooch by Lisa Walker
LUZIA VOGT
- The found object, a discard from the utilitarian world lays idle awaiting destruction, renewal or metamorphosis.
Starting points for Luzia Vogt’s work are often found objects and everyday patterns. The alternating process of experimentation and reflection leads her to the final piece.
Luzia Vogt is a jewellery artist based in Basel. She 2018 she received a Master of Arts at Hochschule Luzern HSLU. She has also studied at Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Pforzheim, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design During in Halifax and done practical training in Tokyo. Portrait photo: Christian Metzler
MALLORY WESTON
- … a series of work that is very crazy and challenging…
Mallory Weston is an artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work involves a marriage between jewelry and textile techniques and she creates large-scale wearable pieces that allow metal to move with the fluidity of fabric.
Mallory Weston received her MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2013. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Metals/Jewelry/ CAD-CAM at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia.
MANON VAN KOUSWIJK
- The making process I view as a way of making things visible…
Manon van Kouswijks's working methodology is based on exploring the visual and conceptual potential of archetypal jewellery and translating these through a range of materials and making processes. The beaded necklace is a form that she has explored in depth, through making wearable jewelry as well as artist books in which she places her works in a context that shows the presence of jewelry in everyday life,
Manon van Kouswijk is an artist from the Netherlands. Since 2010 she lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.
She both studied and taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (photo portrait Fred Kroh)
Necklaces by Manon van Kouswijk
MARIA IGNACIA WALKER
- My work is the result of an intimate dialogue with my body, of an investigation of its changes over time, bodily losses and renewal.
Maria Ignacia Walker is a jewellery artist from Chile. 2015 she graduated from Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence. Her interest for the human body is expressed through different artistic disciplines. She approaches art by experimenting with material, using her artisanship to make jewelry, body pieces, objects and installations. In the TRAWA collection she picks up traditions from Mapuche ornaments.
MARI ISHIKAWA
- Under the moonlight there are grey worlds.
Mari Ishikawa describes the world as a part of the entire reality, which is composed of many worlds existing simultaneously. What we see is a parallel world to something else that we are able to reach if we open our eyes and heart.
Mari Ishikawa was born in Kyoto. She has a Master degree of art, from Nara University of Education, Japan and studied jewellery at Hiko Mizuno College Of Jewelery in Tokyo and at the Munich-Academy of Fine Art. She has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in several museums and collections.
MARTA BOAN
- The concept min. is an aesthetic attitude, an invitation to observe the small, to appreciate details and see what is hidden.
min. is a universe of minimum dimension pieces where Marta Boan examines the boundaries of metal through patterns and repetitions.
Marta Boan is a jewellery artists based in Barcelona. With a degree in Fine Arts (1995-2000), she became a jeweler after sudying at Escola Massana in Barcelona. In 2015 she received a Master in Art and Design, where she reflected on the relationship of jewelry to art and design.
MATT LAMBERT
- Always dancing in the in-betweens and blurring the lines of gender and sexuality, my work attempts to shield our bodies from societal constructs.
matt lambert was born in Detroit Michigan and raised between Metro Detroit area and Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario Canada. The background from urban Detroit and the wilderness in Canada has characterized the artistic practice as well as hybrids and queer in all its meaning.
2014 matt lambert graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA) in Michigan and is currently a PhD student at Konstfack Stockholm and University of Gothenburg.
PAMELA WILSON
- I play with the simple forms shaped to move freely on the body.
Pamela Wilson works in a variety of materials including silver, aluminium, iron, copper and plastics. The pieces made into jewellery are constructed using textile techniques such as weaving, knitting and stitching. The rhythmical forms of colour and line explore and connect through structure.
Pamela Wilson was born and educated in Australia but lived and worked for the last 30 years in Sweden.
PERNILLE MOURITZEN
- … an urge to shape nature, to cultivate the garden and the enclosed rippling retreat, the slow but tough growth.
Pernille Mouritzen uses ancient techniques originating in the traditional goldsmithing crafts of cire perdue/lost wax casting and ie electroplating. She combines her technical knowledge with a playful approach to human adornment, mixing in abundant quantities of stones – creating unique one of a kind pieces of jewellery.
Pernille Mouritzen lives and works in Copenhagen. She has a background as a graphic and graduated in 2008 from the Institute of Precious Metals, Copenhagen.
PIERCE HEALY
- Different jewellery for different beasts
Irish and Stockholm based artist Pierce Healy is creating subversive objects and jewellery, often layered with intricate engravings. He refers to himself as a human Swiss army knife in the way he toils in an array of materials and disciplines in addition to the numerous skills he has acquired throughout his life so far. He is fascinated by the capacity of jewellery to embody our stories and to facilitate storytelling. He believes jewels are portable altars, vessels for our most intimate secrets and stories to be protected, cherished, and adored.
RÉKA LÖRINCZ
- I am contemplating the tangled variety of the universe.
Réka LÅ‘rincz's is a jewellery artist from Budapest. Her work leads to thought paths of value. Jewellery art is a unique medium to illustrate the tricky systems. The artists cross-border examinations and illustrations of our society reorganize function, highlight the hidden and help us along the way, make the invisible to become visible and the false to become reality.
SANNA WALLGREN
- I think of parks as hybrids between an urban environment and nature...
Sanna Wallgren uses anodization as a technique, which has a strong connection with outdoor activities and sporting equipment. With the hammer in the hand she shape the metal directly so the surfaces become similar to vegetation.
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Sanna Wallgren is a jewellery artist with a Master of Applied Art from the University of Arts and Crafts and Design, Gothenburg, Sweden 2018
SANNA SVEDESTEDT CARBOO
- When a piece is unexpected, it might evoke a smile, surprise or bewilderment.
Sanna Svedestedt Carboo has her roots in the northern parts of Sweden and her work is often inspired by traditional crafts as she explores materials such as wood and leather. Jewellery is the language that has become her preferred form of expression and the connection to identity, heritage and culture is always there. Sanna Svedestedt Carboo graduated from HDK - School of Design and Craft Gothenburg 2009 and currently she works as Communications Manager at Konstepidemin Art Centre in Gothenburg.
SOFIA BJÖRKMAN
- The jewellery I make illustrate my thoughts.
Sofia Björkman works as a jewellery artist and runs PLATINA, which opened 1999 a year after her degree from Konstfack University of Arts and Crafts in 1998.
Sofia Björkman likes the idea that wearable jewellery can easily be moved from one context to another. Mobility and flexibility make jewellery art unique as an artform and broaden a piece potential of having impact and evoke various reactions. The pieces she makes with a 3d pen are light, and therefor easy to use, even though they are large.
SONDRA SHERMAN
- So, does the wearer complete the jewelry or does the jewelry complete the wearer?"
Sondra Sherman’s work explores the distinctive voice of jewelry and the psychological and social context of the body/wearer. Subjects inherent to those contexts of personal and social identity inspire diverse series of work, which use the social codes and private/public locations of jewelry as a platform to invite a broad audience to a conversation grounded in empathy.
Sherman is Head of the Jewelry and Metalwork Program at San Diego State University, CA. She received the Diplom Degree from the Academy of Fine Art in Munich Germany, where she resided for ten years.
Brooch by Sondra Sherman
Brooch by Sondra Sherman
TANEL VEENRE
- Jewellery is crystallized poetry, a precious, compact genre with a finely honed vocabulary of patterns. Spare but taut. Art requires to be oneness own storyteller. Jewellery is a triumph of the imagination; the world of two people - the artist and the spectator - that has congealed, for an instant, into one.
Tanel Veenre is an artist from Tallinn, Estonia. He studied and have been teching at the Estonian Academy of Arts and works as a freelance jewellery artist and designer for his jewellery brand TVJ. (Portrait by Arttu Karvonen)
Brooch/brooches by Tanel Veenre
Necklace by Tanel Veenre